Process Engineer

Job Posting Start Date 12-17-2024 Job Posting End Date 02-18-2025Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/an Process Engineer located in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Reporting to the Process Engineer Manager role involves; the Process Engineer is responsible for process-engineering capabilities focused on cost, quality and delivery improvements in order to hold up a manufacturing organization.

What a typical day looks like:

• Recognize the manufacturing process, technologies, techniques and the product.
• Define, implement and evaluate proposed designs and processes for manufacturability.
• Have the capability to singly or with other engineering stakeholders identify root causes of failures in the manufacturing process.
• High level participation in daily production activities and effective problem solving on daily issues.
• Prepare justification, purchase and implement capital equipment for production.
• Hold up and oversee new process equipment production.
• Hold up the raising and introduction of engineering change orders (ECOs).
• Establish robust, repeatable and reproducible process parameters.
• Trouble shoot process related issues and help to develop, implement and take ownership of process control methodologies.
• Participate in activities pertaining to cycle time and process improvements.
• Evaluate and select various engineered materials.
• Implement statistical process research on new and existing products.
• Implement safety, productivity and give in improvements.
• Improve manufacturing techniques and through put.
• Provide continuous development of manufacturing techniques that will improve in-house capabilities and gives in.
• Develop and maintain process documentation and review processing methods.
• Interface with production of all activities associated with new process implementation and transfer.
• Assist in the development of training and provide training to production personnel during new technology transfer.
• Provide equipment maintenance, repair hold up as required and guide cost improvement/reduction programs.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience and training with experience for 1 year with customer focus team high speed automation, ideally micron
• Use of the following tools may be required: Electronic Assembly: color code, component, and schematics.
• May require various PCB operations. Testing: oscilloscope, cable and harness testing, trouble shooting, component testing, logic analyzer. Inspection: bare board, systems, components, cable and harness, microscope, measuring tools. Mechanical & Electrical Tools: taps and dies, alignment tools, measuring tools.
• Nice to have the knowledge and experience with process validation, machine vision system, PLC (Allen Bradley)
• Team player and self-starter and willing to learn more about the industry processes.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job CategoryProduction Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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