Senior Manufacturing Engineer

GF Building Flow Solutions (former Uponor) is a division of GF and a leading provider of smart and sustainable solutions for the safe and efficient use of water in buildings. Our technologies ensure comfort, hygiene, and energy efficiency in residential and commercial environments across the globe.
Join us to be part of a forward-thinking, people-centered company where your ideas and contributions truly matter.

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer supports and optimizes existing processes and manufacturing equipment to achieve safety, quality, delivery and cost goals, ensuring we meet the needs of our customers.

Provide daily factory support of more than one process area.  Responsible for Continuous Improvement of assigned process areas utilizing LEAN/Six Sigma tools, root-cause analysis and improvements to work instructions and operator training.  Able to apply statistical methods to monitor and improve processes, including statistical process control (SPC) and design of experiments (DOE).  Understand current measurement methods and limitations of assigned process area and suggest/implement improvements.

May lead medium sized teams or projects to install and qualify new equipment, solve problems and support Continuous Improvement. Responsible for the qualification of equipment modifications and standard equipment installation to support our continued growth.

May be considered a Subject Matter Expert within their department for one of their assigned process areas.

Collaborates cross-functionally with Operations, Training, Quality, Maintenance, Process Development, Controls Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety and Product Management to ensure decisions are robust and well balanced.

This role is considered an on-site position at our North American manufacturing headquarters in Apple Valley, MN.

What will you do?

Safety

• Identify safety issues within multiple processes and collaborate with Safety, Process Design & Development, Controls Engineering, Operations and Training to resolve concerns. Understand material & utility usage (air, electricity, water, gas) within multiple processes and be able to quantify potential savings through process changes.

Process Optimization

• Optimize existing manufacturing processes to improve safety, cost, quality, and productivity.  Anticipate and identify areas of improvement through observation and data analysis with minimal oversight and guidance. Do so by: knowledge and application of LEAN tools (Kaizen events, FMEAs, value stream mapping, the 8 wastes), collaboration with Operations and Maintenance to select and implement Continuous Improvement (CI) suggestions to improve the operation, fundamental understanding of manufacturing equipment or process, from the perspective of one or more engineering disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, etc), and application of Six Sigma tools including use of the DMAIC process, and independent proficiency in simple experimental design and statistical analysis.
• Use good documentation practices, the defined change process, and broad communication, to ensure process changes are made with input from all affected parties and produce consistency across time, machines, and manufacturing sites.

Factory Engineering Support

• Provide daily factory support.  Function as a process owner in more than one process area.  Know your process capabilities and limitations.  Quantify and track process capability to enable continuous improvement. 
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Training, etc. to understand causes and develop robust corrective actions to quality and equipment performance issues.

Qualification & Optimization of Manufacturing Equipment

• Specify, justify, and manage medium sized projects for the installation and qualification of standard or new manufacturing equipment.  Collaborate with Process Design & Development and Controls Engineering to improve existing processes through equipment design modifications.  Participate in new equipment requirement definition and design reviews.  Coordinate qualification of standard or new equipment through use of Uponor qualification procedures (i.e. IQ, Characterization, OQ, & PQA) to demonstrate operational readiness, working with Engineering Technicians and other key stakeholders (Safety, Quality, Maintenance, Training, etc.)

Work Instruction Creation & Maintenance

• In collaboration with Training, develop work instructions and train operators on the operation and maintenance of manufacturing process and equipment.  Modify work instructions as needed to keep documents up to date, achieve safety, quality, delivery and cost goals, and enable continuous improvement.

What will you need?

Education, Experience and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing, Industrial, etc.) required
• 2 years of manufacturing experience required, 4 years preferred
• Experience in manufacturing, supporting manufacturing operations, and manufacturing process improvement utilizing LEAN tools and Six Sigma problem solving methods is preferred
• Manufacturing experience that involves conversion packaging processes, packaging materials, and packaging best practices is highly desired. 

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations: 

• Annual OSHA training, as required
• Six Sigma Green Belt or willingness to pursue
• Lean Manufacturing training/certification or willingness to pursue

What will you get?

• Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals- MN Based Employees)
• For more information: https://www.uponorcareers.com/en-us/employee-benefits

Disclaimers

Applicable to US job postings only (not Canada): The expected compensation range for this position is $88,298-$132,447/year. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. Internal equity among current employees will also be considered. Please note that this range represents the full base salary wage for the role and hiring at or near the top of the range is uncommon to ensure room for future pay advancement.

Uponor is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law

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