Contingent - Manufacturing Engineer

About ITT:

ITT is a leading manufacturer of critical components for harsh environments that serves fast-growing end markets in flow, aerospace and defense, energy and transportation. Building on our heritage of innovation, we partner with our customers to deliver solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.Headquartered in Stamford, CT, we have more than 11,700 employees globally with operations in ~40 countries and sales in more than 125. At our core is our engineering DNA, with 1,280+ engineers, 1,700+ active global patents and ~51 manufacturing locations.

 

Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA: 

 

Industrial Process: A global leader in centrifugal and twin-screw pumps and engineered valves for chemical, energy, mining, and industrial applications. Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history), Bornemann, Habonim, Engineered Valves, Rheinhütte Pumpen and Svanehøj. 

 

Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies, KONI and Axtone.

 

Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA. 

Position Summary

Develop and maintain control over standards for production operations, follow up with compliance of production processes, suggest changes in current process to achieve higher efficiency levels and determine requirements through demand.

Essential Responsibilities

SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION

Develop and apply composite materials and manufacturing processes to meet all customer product requirements in a fully documented, production-ready process. Select materials and consumables, create and maintain BOMs. Identify Key Product Characteristics (KPC’s), manage, control and assure compliance of them throughout product value chain. Design, qualify, and implement tools, fixtures and equipment as required to develop these textiles, preforms, or composite parts and produce conforming product.

Work closely with the operations team to ensure achievement of key technical customer requirements within program schedule and budget; ensure specific resources are identified and provided as needed (tooling, equipment, materials, etc.). Support teams’ meetings (cross functional and departmental) and activities related to engineering/technical elements of program.

Provide configuration board authority for engineering, including change definition, qualification and approval, material review, defect or process failure investigation, root cause and corrective action.

Define criteria for production readiness, and qualify developed processes, procedures and tooling/fixtures in support of transition to production and production sustainment.  Ensure compliance to Quality System Procedures and internal governing documents.

Identify opportunities to improve the manufacturing process, assess the costs/benefits of the improvements, and effectively communicate, obtain approval as required, and implement those changes.

Provide engineering/technical project updates and communications as needed by internal and external customers.

Provide mentoring and technical leadership to the engineering organization in relevant areas of expertise. Identify and support implementation of organizational process improvement initiatives.

Support new business development efforts by preparing proposals and supporting quotation. Revise quotations through the life cycle of a project to ensure that the organization is compensated for work associated with changes in the scope of the program.

Position Requirements

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

 

Comply with policies, procedures, rules and dispositions for environmental, health and safety requirements. Use personal protection equipment in the areas where is required. Give EHS the same importance that manufacturing, quality and costs have; as well as promoting and supporting the concept of maximum safety and hygiene in the assigned work area.

 

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

 

Follow up procedures and policies necessary to develop the requirements of the employee’s position.

 

POSITION PROFILE

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