Uponor · 9 hours ago
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Apple Valley, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$88K/yr - $132K/yr
2+ years expGF Building Flow Solutions, formerly known as Uponor, is a leading provider of smart and sustainable solutions for water use in buildings. The Senior Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for optimizing manufacturing processes, providing factory support, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure quality and efficiency in production.
Building MaterialCommercialIndustrialManufacturingWater
Responsibilities
Identify safety issues within multiple processes and collaborate with Safety, Process Design & Development, Controls Engineering, Operations and Training to resolve concerns
Optimize existing manufacturing processes to improve safety, cost, quality, and productivity
Anticipate and identify areas of improvement through observation and data analysis with minimal oversight and guidance
Use good documentation practices, the defined change process, and broad communication, to ensure process changes are made with input from all affected parties and produce consistency across time, machines, and manufacturing sites
Provide daily factory support
Function as a process owner in more than one process area
Know your process capabilities and limitations
Quantify and track process capability to enable continuous improvement
Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Training, etc. to understand causes and develop robust corrective actions to quality and equipment performance issues
Specify, justify, and manage medium sized projects for the installation and qualification of standard or new manufacturing equipment
Collaborate with Process Design & Development and Controls Engineering to improve existing processes through equipment design modifications
Participate in new equipment requirement definition and design reviews
Coordinate qualification of standard or new equipment through use of Uponor qualification procedures (i.e. IQ, Characterization, OQ, & PQA) to demonstrate operational readiness, working with Engineering Technicians and other key stakeholders (Safety, Quality, Maintenance, Training, etc.)
In collaboration with Training, develop work instructions and train operators on the operation and maintenance of manufacturing process and equipment
Modify work instructions as needed to keep documents up to date, achieve safety, quality, delivery and cost goals, and enable continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing, Industrial, etc.) required
2 years of manufacturing experience required
Annual OSHA training, as required
Six Sigma Green Belt or willingness to pursue
Lean Manufacturing training/certification or willingness to pursue
Preferred
4 years of manufacturing experience preferred
Experience in manufacturing, supporting manufacturing operations, and manufacturing process improvement utilizing LEAN tools and Six Sigma problem solving methods is preferred
Manufacturing experience that involves conversion packaging processes, packaging materials, and packaging best practices is highly desired
Benefits
Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals- MN Based Employees)
Company
Uponor
Uponor is a provider of plumbing and indoor climate systems .
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$62.5MKey Investors
Aliaxis Group
2023-04-24Post Ipo Equity
2018-09-05Private Equity· $62.5M
2000-01-28IPO
Leadership Team
Jennifer Hauschildt
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
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