Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.

Woodward supports our members’ wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. 

Are you ready to make your mark? If you’re a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, we have an exciting opportunity for you.  The Senior Manufacturing Engineer (level 3) reports to Technical Leadership and whose focus is performing design and support of moderate to high complexity manufacturing systems and equipment, mentoring to other Engineers and supporting process improvements.

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Provides advanced technical solutions and leads team through process
• Devises new approaches to problems encountered
• Initiates, justifies, and implements new advanced capital equipment purchases
• Creates cell layouts and leads process improvement initiatives of high complexity
• Participates in and promotes process improvements within assigned areas; assists with the development of department and organization procedures
• Supports the manufacturing floor for any process related questions. Lends lessons learned and leads training efforts for process understanding.
• Creates, maintains and develops new process documentation and updates work order documentation. Creates new systems that support this effort.

What We Are Looking For:

• Solid Six Sigma knowledge; Advanced understanding of Lean Manufacturing concepts
• Solid Project planning tools
• Solid troubleshooting and problem solving skills; Solid understanding of Root Cause Analysis
• Uses solid concepts of Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA) and implements them into new product development
• Manufacturing Engineering - Solid understanding of applicable manufacturing processes including Computer Numeric Controls (CNC) programming; Ability to apply advanced knowledge of capabilities studies, Gage R&R, and machine capability; Solid understanding of machinery related to electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, etc. in order to specify equipment and procure capital; Solid understanding of product drawings, including GD&T and specification flow down

Education:

• US – Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)-Engineering Discipline

Experience:

• Greater than 4 years professional engineering experience or a combination of experience and advanced degree

License & Certifications:

• Certificate or degree
• Six Sigma Greenbelt
• Professional certification

Base Salary Range: 90,400.00 - 113,000.00 - 135,600.00 USD Annual

• All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity. 
  • 401(k) match (4.5%)
  • Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
  • Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members  
• 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays. 
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire

• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave. 
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption Assistance  
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits. 
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life 
• Member referral bonus 
• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible             Spending 
• Voluntary benefits, including:  
• Home / Auto Insurance discounts 
• Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military

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