Manufacturing Project Engineer - Advanced Planning

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Manufacturing Project Engineer – Advanced Planning 
Mapleton, IL

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The Mapleton Foundry is one of the largest in the United States and home to the largest core making machine in the world! Working at the foundry is hard work that demands focus and safety, quality, and commitment to helping our customers build a better world.

With over 800 employees at the foundry, we are looking for an Advanced Planning – Manufacturing Engineer who will provide the technical expertise necessary to design, develop, and implement manufacturing systems, complex manufacturing operations and sophisticated machines by following New Capital Investment process. As an Advanced Planning Manufacturing Engineer, you will be expected to function as a specialist with respect to the machining area of the foundry.  You will develop, analyze and manage manufacturing/machining projects while assisting in developing department capital and expense budgets and maintain the capital forecast. This role is integral in bringing new ideas and technology to the machining department that will continuously improve the overall performance to meet or exceed customer expectations

What you will do:  

• Follow NCI (New Capital Introduction) Process Flow / Gate Reviews
• Collaborate with customer groups, Facilities / Maintenance, Manufacturing Operations, Engineering, EHS, accounting and purchasing are involved in the approval process.
• Be responsible to achieve desired outputs on multiple concurrent individual and team projects.  
• Develop plans for facilities projects, prepare and establish priorities for cost effectiveness, manage budgeting and purchasing matters pertaining to these projects.
• Work with Internal / External Suppliers to plan & implement facility wide projects to assure efficient and cost-effective systems and processes to produce quality products.
• Coordinate compatibility of existing and new assets and/or systems.
• Provide direction and guidance to other project owners to assure the most efficient and sustainable effect on the facility.
• Ensure implementation of modern technology and verify the effectiveness related to facility processes modifications.

Top Candidates May Have:

• Experience in managing large scale capital projects including concept development, project funding and execution of large-scale capital projects. 
• Manufacturing experience related to manufacturing of cast materials, machining, and process control documentation.
• Foundry process experience related to molding, core making, melting/holding furnaces, iron pouring or casting cleaning 

Skills you will have:

• Project Management: Basic Understanding of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Manufacturing Process Design and Development: Basic understangin of how to develop or design a manufacturing process; ability to establish and determine which processes and parameters should be opted to improve functionality and costs.
• Capacity Planning & Management - MFG: Working knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.
• Lean Manufacturing: Working knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.
• Problem Solving: Working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

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