Job Description

Ready to make an impact? Join a stable and growing organization where your career can flourish! If you're excited about new opportunities, keep reading!

At Trace-A-Matic, our people are our greatest assets! We offer a friendly, clean, and safe work environment where everyone can thrive. Our mission is to achieve excellence in complex precision machined components and ensure customer satisfaction. Plus, we have a fantastic Gainsharing program: when the company profits, we share 50% with our employees, paid out quarterly!

Trace-A-Matic offers:

• 10 Paid Holidays
• Service-Based PTO
• Gainsharing
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k with company contribution
• Exciting, fast-paced environment with cutting edge equipment/manufacturing processes
• On-site Fitness Center & Medical Clinic
• Weekly Pay
• Performance Merit Raises
• Climate Controlled Environment
• Career development and growth opportunities

Position Overview:

The manufacturing engineer shall support the business in areas of new product development; process improvement; daily production support; project manage key programs; analyze and interpret technical data (engineering drawings, specifications, purchase orders, etc.) and create shop routings, operations sheets, tools, and other necessary processes and equipment to produce a high-quality product.

Typical processes include milling, lathe operation, honing, plating, CNC programming, assembly, testing, non-destructive testing, dimensional and visual inspection techniques and electro-mechanical assembly experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Based on requirements from customer orders, plan sequences of operations for machining and assembly of products.
• Ensure efficient and effective manufacturing methods are used that are compatible to available machines.
• Specifies, design and/or procures special tooling or equipment required to attain product per customer requirement with in budgeted cost and time.
• Programs CNC machines to effectively and efficiently produce desired product.
• Participate in the Company’s Corrective Action and MRB Boards.
• Analyze and resolve machining and tooling issues to avoid problems.
• Create new or modify existing manufacturing drawings using CAD methodology.
• Value engineer existing products and processes to reduce cost, lead time and cycle times.
• Complies with all company policies/procedures.
• Complies with all military and contractual requirements.
• Other duties as needed

Skills and Competencies:

• Proficiency in SolidWorks and Microsoft Suite
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Basic understanding of typical manufacturing systems: Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Kitting, Batch sizing, Configuration control, Workflow routings

Qualifications:

• **Education: **Bachelor of Science in Engineering required, equivalent experience considered.
• Experience and/or Training: 7+ years of manufacturing experience preferred

You should be proficient in:

• GD&T
• CNC Tooling
• Troubleshooting Skills
• CNC Programming
• CAD Software
• G-Code
• M-Code
• CNC Machine Setup & Changeover
• Precision Measurement & Hand Metrology
• Machine Setups for Production Runs
• CAD/CAM Software

Machines & technologies you'll use:

• CNC Mill (3-4 axis VMC) (Fanuc, Mazak, Haas, Okuma, Doosan, Dmg Mori Seiki)
• CNC Lathe (2-4 axis) (Mazak, Haas, Okuma, Doosan, Dmg Mori Seiki)
• CAM Software (Mastercam, Mazatrol)
• CNC Mill (5+ axis VMC) (Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Mazak, Haas, Dmg Mori Seiki)
• CNC Lathe (5+ axis) (Mazak, Okuma, Doosan, Dmg Mori Seiki)