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Engineering Associate
Prototek Sheetmetal Fabrication, LLCBlue Mounds, WI, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Apr 2025
About the role
Engineering Associate
About Prototek
Prototek is a leading national provider of digital based manufacturing services including CNC machining, precision sheet metal fabrication, EDM, and additive manufacturing services. Prototek serves a variety of customer end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, and general industrial. Prototek has manufacturing locations across the United States including facilities in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. Prototek is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D:2016 certified as well as ITAR Registered. For more information, visit www.prototek.com.
Job Summary
The Engineering Associate is a technical role at Prototek and will support the company’s business growth and profit objectives by providing technical expertise across a variety of company functional and operational areas. It is an entry level rotational development program. This team member will work for General Manager rotating to specific functions: Commercial Estimating, Quality, and Operations. The team member will possess an excellent understanding of design, manufacturing, material science, and material behavior. The person will work with GM/Operational leadership to learn operational process flows and identify and implement opportunities for improvement. It includes learning ability to program and optimize production builds. The role includes working with Quality leadership to understand customer technical requirements and follow through with fulfilment. The role includes working with the Commercial team to solve customer challenges and deliver winning proposals for work.
Essential Functions
Engineering
Commercial Additive
Operational
About Prototek
Prototek is a leading national provider of digital based manufacturing services including CNC machining, precision sheet metal fabrication, EDM, and additive manufacturing services. Prototek serves a variety of customer end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, and general industrial. Prototek has manufacturing locations across the United States including facilities in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. Prototek is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D:2016 certified as well as ITAR Registered. For more information, visit www.prototek.com.
Job Summary
The Engineering Associate is a technical role at Prototek and will support the company’s business growth and profit objectives by providing technical expertise across a variety of company functional and operational areas. It is an entry level rotational development program. This team member will work for General Manager rotating to specific functions: Commercial Estimating, Quality, and Operations. The team member will possess an excellent understanding of design, manufacturing, material science, and material behavior. The person will work with GM/Operational leadership to learn operational process flows and identify and implement opportunities for improvement. It includes learning ability to program and optimize production builds. The role includes working with Quality leadership to understand customer technical requirements and follow through with fulfilment. The role includes working with the Commercial team to solve customer challenges and deliver winning proposals for work.
Essential Functions
Engineering
- Work for the General Manager and operational staff to develop productivity improvements to reduce cost & put Prototek in position to increase capacity, throughput, and win more work
- Support customers as needed to solve manufacturing challenges and design problems
- MRP software proficiency supporting all departments: Become a resident expert with our Manufacturing Resource Planning software to provide support to all departments as needed.
- CAD model and drawing proficiency (Solidworks preferred): Comfortable in a CAD environment. Able to extract dimensions from digital models and understand drawing requirements. Able to produce CAD models and drawings, as directed. A solid understanding of GD&T
- Review cost vs revenue of selected completed jobs to improve estimating methodology as needed.
Commercial Additive
- Work for the Estimating Manager to develop proposals for key customers working with sales and estimating group to a successful win %.
- Quickly learn estimating and contribute to the technical understanding of others.
- Be a team resource to solve technical customer challenges and drive Prototek customer wins
- Provide exceptional customer service.
- Follow up with customers to determine why an order was not secured and implement appropriate changes.
- Other commercial duties as assigned
Operational
- Provide manufacturing engineering support to General Manager on a project basis to drive productivity and quality control improvements.
- Learn process flows and machine operations with a focus on process improvements
- Review and develop manufacturing standard work procedures as needed
- Drive productivity of operations based on specific projects or im
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