Manufacturing Engineer

Since 1969, Creative Foam has designed and manufactured cellular and non-cellular foams and plastics for our automotive customers. Key ingredients in our success in this market include innovative people, an abiding passion for quality and an unwavering commitment to the customer. Find your home at Creative Foam!

Competitive Benefits & Compensation Package

• Safe working environments

• World class benefits

• Medical, dental, vision plans and flexible spending accounts

• Company paid short term disability, long term disability, and AD&D insurance

• 401k with employer match

• Generous holiday and vacation allotments

• Dependent scholarship program

• Wellness program

• Referral program

  
  

  Pay

Pay commensurate with education and experience.

Creative Foam wants to be a great service provider to our customers. We recognize we can only do that if we are a great employer. Our success is driven by the success of our employees.

Our culture focuses on four core values:

• Be Inclusive-Make a difference as a TEAM, work collaboratively and support others in our effort to greatness. Constantly strive for perfection and quickly learn from our mistakes.

• Be Inventive-Never stop learning and push the TEAM to strive towards sustained excellence. Aim to provide our customers with the most creative solutions in the market.

• Be Responsible-Maintain an equitable relationship with our customers, employees, stakeholders and communities as we develop as a TEAM.

• Be Relentless-Demand more from yourself and the TEAM than you think is imaginable, this will drive change and only then will we achieve our goals.

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SUMMARY: The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for administering and controlling manufacturing processes to develop methods and processes at the most cost-effective level while meeting the quality, demand and long-term objectives of the company. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Design and maintain facility lay-out, plant development and organize traffic flow

• Responsible for program development, timelines and communication of details

• Develop methods and processes at the most cost-effective level

• Responsible for upkeep of plant capacity plan and communication of capacity with customers

• Responsible for new program design and quotation along with corporate team

• Lead new program introduction and associated new equipment development

• Support continuous improvement objectives along with Kaizen and Poka Yoke methodologies

• Practice Creative Foam’s values in a positive manner at all times

• Work overtime as required based on business needs and/or operational requirements

• Perform all other tasks as requested and required

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree in engineering with education and/or experience emphasis on manufacturing.  Seven years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior experience with an emphasis on new product introduction and project management is preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS: Auto CAD, Autodesk Inventor/other forms of design software, and thorough understanding and experience with Microsoft Office products are required.   

Teamwork, timeliness and respectful behavior towards co-workers, management and others is mandatory.  Ability to learn company used computer software utilized in manufacturing, inventory and accounting is essential.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: The ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical reports and technical drawings is required.  Write business reports, correspondence, policies and procedures in a professional manner.  Must effectively present information to groups of managers, directors, customers and suppliers.  Verbally respond calmly and respectfully to questions, inquiries or complaints. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Proficiency with basic math, especially decimals and fractions is mandatory, as well as basic geometry and an understanding of the Cartesian coordinate system (X,Y, Z) to effectively use CAD software is required.  The ability to work with fundamental business math including proportions and percentages along with an ability to provide reports is mandatory.

REASONING ABILITY: Must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. The ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables is necessary.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: The ability to use a personal computer to produce reports and spreadsheets using Windows-based software is mandatory. Must be able to perform duties at or above average skill level, while practicing Creative Foam’s values in a positive manner, at all times.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to move between standing, sitting and walking. The ability to talk and hear clearly, often using a telephone headset or earbuds is required. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus to effectively read and interpret information on paper and computer screens.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The standard work environment is an office or cubicle style workstation. Occasionally it is required to perform work in a foam product manufacturing and packaging environment requiring exposure to machinery, mechanical parts, loud noise, fluctuating temperatures and dust which is naturally present in areas of the facility.  

THE STATEMENTS IN THIS JOB DESCRIPTION ARE INTENDED TO DESCRIBE THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS OF PERSONS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB.  THEY ARE NOT INTENDED AS AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL JOB DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS.