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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Kato Engineering

Location: North Mankato, Minnesota
Type: Full-Time, Non-Remote
Posted on: March 7, 2024
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Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description:
Research, plan, and design mechanical and electromechanical products and systems and direct and coordinate activities involved in fabrication, operation, application, installation, and repair of mechanical or electromechanical products and systems by performing the following duties. Leads and mentors engineers, designers, and technicians.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
• With Direct Supervision:
• Evaluate FEA results and provide critical decisions.
• Review and analyze product test data and provide guidance and recommendations.
• Compose and Present Analysis reports within organization and to customers.
• Without Direct Supervision:
• Perform calculations using math tools including but not limited to Excel, MathCad, and Xlrotor
• Conduct finite element structural analysis.
• Evaluate field installations and recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
• Research and analyze customer design requirements, specifications, manuals, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and product maintenance.
• Work with sales to research and analyze customer specifications to create design proposals.
• Create detailed designs for manufacturing in a cross functional environment following manufacturability and quality initiatives.
• Maintenance and support of existing products to include reliability, cost, and manufacturability product improvements.
• Assign GD&T dimensional tolerance on parts and check tolerance stack up.
• Review drawing packages and order documentation completed by other designers and engineers.
• Communicate product specifications to electrical and mechanical designers and provide guidance on how the specifications affect product design.
• Design Products, applying engineering principles to meet customer specifications.
• Design products to meet safety, industry, and agency certification requirements.
• Evaluate project requirements for required effort and provide estimated completion times.
• Evaluate design projects to ensure the latest design practices are being utilized.
• Perform testing to evaluate structural, thermal, and vibration of products.
• Create bills of materials and assist designers/technicians with the creation of bills of material.
• Other Activities as directed by management.
• Coordinate assembly and testing activities to ensure products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications.
• Work closely with production during construction of initial machine release to record and improve manufacturing or procurement challenges.
• Evaluate customer test requirements and assign existing or write new test procedures to meet requirements.
• Document and clearly communicate technical results within company and customers as appropriate.
• Presents proposed designs to customer and help negotiate changes required to eliminate functional or dimensional problems.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Problem-solving skills.
• Teamworking skills.
• Relevant technical knowledge
• Good leadership skill, IT skills and communication.
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Engineering and Information Technology
Full-time