Manufacturing Process Engineer

We are looking for a Manufacturing Process Engineer (MPE) to join our Central Machining Team.  This is an exciting opportunity to utilize your manufacturing & project management skills and to become an associate owner of an amazing company!   In this role you’ll be responsible for ensuring the manufacture of high-quality consumable components from raw material to their controlled inventory location. The manufacturing process includes multi-axis CNC lathes and mills, manual and automated pressing/assembly equipment, as well as laser marking and packaging equipment. You’ll also lead process improvement projects and initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma practices to enhance quality, reduce cost, improve safety, and increase earnings for our 100% Associate-owned organization.
Who you are and the experience you bring: 

•  Define the work methods for a specific production area consisting of several work cells.  Identify process improvements and lead projects to improve product flow through work cells.
• Ensure safety procedures (lockout, job safety analysis, personal protective equipment, machine guarding, and ergonomics) are developed and integrated into production processes.
• Provide daily support to production teams for technical issues that arise.  Provide training and support in programming, operation and maintenance of all equipment in the work area.
• Ensure production area processes operate within quality metric targets.  Identify trends in quality performance and execute root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans.
• Design tooling, fixtures and workstations essential for new product introduction to the production cells.
• Participate in the investigation and purchase of new equipment and tooling. Provide input into the equipment/process technology road map. Develop maintenance schedules for all equipment within assigned work cells.
• Create and maintain all documents used to control the manufacturing process including but not limited to Engineering Change Orders (ECO), routing, bills of material, standard work in each cell, value stream maps and quality data collection sheets.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering
• 2+ years of experience with CNC machining in a manufacturing environment. We will consider more junior candidates for a lower level position.
•  Must possess an affinity for getting to the root-cause of a problem, not be afraid of "taking the lead" and get excited about both implementing new technology and continuously looking to improve the current.

• Independently motivated, collaborative team player
• Ability to participate in and/or lead Kaizen events or other continuous improvement activities with proven results
• Project management experience
• Tool set: lean manufacturing, statistical analysis (minitab), geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), Solidworks, VSM, DFM, Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (pFMEA) and structured problem solving

Preferred experience that differentiates you: 

• Experience facilitating Kaizen events
• New product introduction experience
• Project Management Certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Master’s Degree in related field
• Allen Bradley PLC programming and troubleshooting
• Automated assembly design & setup

Why join Hypertherm?  

·       Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture  

·       Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)  

·       Five days/year paid Community Service Time  

·       Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship  

·       Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy  

Hypertherm is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome all applications. All employment decisions are based on business need, job requirements and our values as an associate-owned company without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin,