Uponor
Manufacturing Engineer III
Irwindale, California, USA · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 24 days ago
Product ManagementSolidWorksLean Manufacturing
About the role
- - Own the design, implementation, validation, and long ‑ term sustainment of manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost ‑ effective production throughout the product lifecycle.
- - Lead the design and optimization of production cells, tooling, fixtures, and test systems using advanced lean principles, error ‑ proofing, and flow optimization.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, validation, and long ‑ term sustainment of manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost ‑ effective production throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead the design and optimization of production cells, tooling, fixtures, and test systems using advanced lean principles, error ‑ proofing, and flow optimization.
- Serve as a technical owner for complex sustaining issues, including MRBs, nonconformances, supplier escapes, production interruptions, and field feedback; lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Lead high ‑ impact capital projects and strategic improvement initiatives from proposal through Release ‑ to ‑ Production, prioritizing based on ROI, capacity, quality, and sustainability.
- Complete Role St andard Work and deliver all other duties as assigned.
- Ability to lead by influence across cross ‑ functional teams, communicate effectively at all organizational levels, and bring structure to ambiguity.
Requirements
- The employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel
- The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk
- Proven ability to take ownership of manufacturing outcomes, not just engineering tasks, with accountability for process stability and performance.
- Advanced problem ‑ solving skills with demonstrated experience leading complex root cause and corrective action efforts in production environments.
- Strong working knowledge of lean manufacturing tools (Standard Work, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, error ‑ proofing ) and their practical application on the production floor.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial engineering or a related field with approximately 7 -10+ years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience.
- Required Skills/Abilities:
Skills
- Advanced experience designing and improving production fixtures, tooling, and manufacturing layouts (NX or SolidWorks preferred).
Compensation
- $100,000/yr - $120,000/yr
- Please submit your application via the 'Apply' button.
Benefits
- Lead cross ‑ functional teams to drive manufacturing and supplier issue resolution, using data, cost, and long ‑ term process health to guide decisions.
- Education and Experience:
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