Whelan Machine & Tool, an Ajax Defense company, builds precision components and assemblies for defense and commercial customers. We're hiring a Process Improvement Engineer to own product routings, time standards and capacity, and to lead continuous improvement across machining, welding, assembly and offload.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain routings and time standards in the ERP system for machining, welding, assembly and offload
- Measure actual times against standards and keep them current
- Support quoting with labor and machine time estimates
- Model capacity by work center and flag bottlenecks to Operations and Production Control
- Lead continuous improvement: layout, setup reduction, standard work and 5S
- Justify equipment and tooling purchases with cost and capacity data
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of industrial or manufacturing engineering in a machining, fabrication or assembly environment
- Experience setting time standards and routings in an ERP/MRP system
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (the job involves export-controlled technical data)
Nice to have
- Lean or Six Sigma certification
- Experience in an AS9100 defense or aerospace job shop
- Experience with capacity modeling and simulation tools
Office-based with regular time on the production floor.
Ajax Defense, Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
You should be proficient in:
- Continuous Improvement
- Kaizen
- AS9100 Experience
- ITAR Registration Experience
