Manufacturing Engineer

DISH’s Equipment Remanufacturing team ensures the high quality condition of millions of satellite receivers and remote controls.  State-of-the-art facilities in El Paso, TX, Spartanburg, SC, and Englewood, CO, use advanced diagnostic tools and automated equipment to test, refurbish and redistribute hardware to customers.

Education and Experience:

• B.S. in Engineering field and 2 years experience in an industrial environment.
• AutoCAD experience required.  Solid Works knowledge is a plus.
• MS Office experience required.
• Project management experience and ability to manage a small team.
• Must be able to conduct ergonomic review of operational processes.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements is a plus.
• Experience in implementing 5S solutions.
• Knowledge of time study and analysis.
• Ability to use a computer, collect data, define problems, establish and analyze facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Skills and Qualifications:

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

• Maintain safety requirements of operations.
• Perform safety analysis of operations to the safety criteria and develop corrective actions to improve safety performance.
• Review operational processes, identify opportunities to improve efficiency and product quality.
• Perform time studies and identify work pattern solutions.
• Data mine databases and spreadsheets to track performance and identify trends or opportunities for improvement.
• Support launch of new product and processes, develop and document process steps and controls, specify and design new equipment or tooling as needed.
• Generate databases as needed to track measurables.
• Develop solutions to process issues, manage the project and implement the solution.
• The ability to read, analyze and interpret safety rules, company policies, OSHA and production SOE's.
• Create databases to measure identified variables and outputs of the product.
• Ability to work in a team environment with production operators, supervisors, and managers.
• Must be able to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers in a professional environment.
• Will be required to write technical documents and train team members.
• Must have knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
• Knowledge of electronic components and process controls.
• Ability to work with standard math functions, average and standard deviation.
• Must be familiar with root cause analysis and data collection methods.
• Lead team in corrective actions addressing opporuntities for improvement.
• Perform time study analysis and recognize work balance solutions from the data.
• Create cell and plant layouts in AutoCAD.
• Ability to perform tool design and analysis in AutoCAD and/or Solid Works a plus.
• Must be able to lift 20 lbs.

This position supports an industrial manufacturing environment and the candidate must have the ability to work hands on to support these operations.  Must be flexible to support a two shift operation and new product and process implementation.  Will be required to work the same shift schedule as the departments you are supporting, unless other arrangements are made.