Manufacturing Engineer-Media Line

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer-Media Line

Employment Status: Full Time

Classification: Exempt

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday

Reports to: Manufacturing Engineer-Device

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Pay: $65,000 to $70,000/year

Position Summary: The Manufacturing Engineer-Media Line establishes and maintains all media line and related processes in accordance with International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and other certification requirements.  Leads and coordinates strategic and tactical manufacturing engineering initiatives to enhance process efficiency, ensuring adherence to safety, quality, and cost productivity standards.  The Manufacturing Engineer-Media Line develops and maintains a capital plan, ensuring expenditures remain within approved limits.

Essential Functions: 

• Utilizes mechanical knowledge to design manufacturing equipment and equipment modifications to advance process quality and productivity.  
• Optimizes manufacturing process using knowledge of business needs to meet ongoing productivity requirements for safety, quality, and cost. 
• Initiates and manages projects focused on improving efficiency and lowering operating expenditures, ensuring adherence to established schedules and budgets.
• Implements and leads structured root-cause analysis to initiate corrective actions, reduce inefficiencies, and foster continuous improvement in paper making and related activities. 
• Oversees the selection, reviews qualifications, and ensures performance of outside contractors, verifying that all work is completed efficiently, safely, and to the required quality standards.
• Creates documentation for equipment installation and maintenance, provides or assists with related training. 
• Collaborates with the workforce to clarify and identify equipment and process issues, implements solutions that align with company goals and objectives.
• Determines the feasibility of designing new equipment or modifying existing machinery based on existing and future business needs, current technology, available space, time constraints, and other technical and economic factors.   
• Engages with appropriate departments to identify current and future business needs.

Other Duties 

• Assists in new product development by responding to R&D engineering requests to create new or improved marketable products.
• Assists sales and marketing in developing product literature by recording, interpreting, and explaining technical data and performance.
• Contributes to R&D and new product development through active team involvement. 
• Provides concise written reports for project updates and final reports on completed projects.
• Performs other Manufacturing Engineer-Media Line duties as assigned. 

This is not meant to be a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, and responsibilities. These items may change, or new items may be assigned with or without notice. 

Experience and Education Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Engineering. 
• Two years’ engineering in a manufacturing setting is preferred but not required.  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA’s) Required 

• Knowledge of advanced mathematics.
• Functional knowledge of manufacturing process equipment is required.
• Knowledge of general production processes.
• Knowledge of tools, instrumentation, and test equipment.
• Working knowledge of Lean principles and applications.
• Working knowledge of industrial, mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic control systems.
• Strong mechanical knowledge of manufacturing equipment is required. 
• Knowledge of how to recommend equipment or equipment modifications to improve manufacturing process. 
• Knowledge of safe, efficient, and cost effective equipment installation.
• Demonstrate strong problem solving skills to effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues in manufacturing process. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, conflict resolution, and people skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to self-motivate and work without direct supervision.
• Ability to multi-task and work in an organized manner.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new concepts and technologies.
• Strong ability to follow safe work practices.
• Strong drafting / 3D modeling abilities required (experience with SolidWorks is a plus).
• Ability to use Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, other computer programs, and technology.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, lift/carry/push/pull under 10 pounds, use hands repetitively for writing, keyboarding, and grasping/holding. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk on normal surfaces, lift/carry up to 35 pounds, push up to 100 pounds, climb ladders twist/turn, reach outward and over shoulders, and bend and squat.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Acute hearing is necessary for phone and in-person communication with outside business contacts and fellow employees, and visual acuity must be sufficient to read a computer screen and paper documents.

Working Conditions 

This position typically functions in a business environment with occasional trips into the warehouse, lab, and production areas.  There will be exposure to moderate noise levels, fumes, dust, chemicals, heat/cold, and allergens especially in the warehouse, and production, environments.

EEO Policy Statement: 

Gusmer Enterprises, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Gusmer will also consider requests for reasonable accommodations made by applicants and employees on an individualized basis, including those based on disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, where such accommodations do not impose an undue burden on the business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.