Lead Manufacturing Engineer
jfo_jfm_manufacturing-industrial-engineering-manufacturing-industria · S5 — S5 — Principal Support Specialist · Support
Serves as the senior technical authority on manufacturing and industrial engineering solutions, guiding process design and problem-solving across production lines.
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What this role is
Serves as the senior technical authority on manufacturing and industrial engineering solutions, guiding process design and problem-solving across production lines. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.
What this level does
- Creates new data-collection and study procedures and measurement templates for the plant — standardizing how cycle-time, yield and metrology data are captured so results are consistent across shifts and cells.
- Resolves the most complex procedural and data-integrity issues, developing techniques (e.g., a reusable CMM routine library or a standardized SCADA-export-to-metrics workflow) that become the accepted method.
- Acts as working lead and facilitator across the support group on major manufacturing/optimization projects, allocating the documentation and measurement workload and owning the quality of the combined output.
- Provides authoritative guidance to engineers and technicians on the plant's established methods, historical process records and document-control system — the recognized go-to for how a procedure came to be.
- Trains technicians and peers on new tools and revised procedures, and contributes the support-side input when engineers redesign standards, layouts or process-monitoring approaches.
- Knowledge applied
- Highly skilled in the plant's manufacturing-support methods; contributes to the creation of new procedures, measurement templates and data workflows within that area of expertise.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Develops concepts and techniques and resolves complex data-integrity and procedural issues that others cannot; acts independently.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Acts as working lead/facilitator across the support group, provides authoritative peer and engineer guidance, and trains others on new tools and revised procedures.
- Typical experience
- 6+ years; expert in the manufacturing-support specialty.
Skills at this level
- Time & Motion Study
- — Observes and records manufacturing operation cycles with a stopwatch or timing tool, breaking work into measurable elements to establish or verify labor and cycle-time standards on the production line.
- SOP & Work-Instruction Documentation
- — Drafts, updates and re-issues standard operating procedures, routing sheets and work instructions under document-control conventions, keeping revisions synchronized with what actually happens on the floor.
- Process Data Collection & Reporting
- — Captures cycle-time, scrap, yield and downtime data from the line and consolidates it in Excel tables, pivots and charts used in manufacturing project and improvement reviews.
- CMM Metrology (PC-DMIS)
- — Sets up and runs coordinate-measuring-machine routines in Wilcox PC-DMIS to measure part dimensions against the print, logs results and troubleshoots out-of-tolerance readings before escalation.
- CAD Layout Markup (AutoCAD)
- — Reads and redlines plant-layout drawings in AutoCAD to reflect equipment moves, cell reconfigurations and line relocations, returning accurate markups for engineer incorporation.
- Statistical Analysis (Minitab / SPSS)
- — Runs basic statistical process and study analyses in Minitab or IBM SPSS on collected floor data to identify variation, bottlenecks and capability trends for the engineering team.
- SCADA / HMI Data Extraction
- — Pulls production-count, machine-state and downtime data from supervisory control (SCADA) and human-machine-interface (HMI) systems into structured spreadsheets for monitoring and analysis.
- Document Control & Revision Management
- — Maintains controlled process documents, filing revisions in correct locations and ensuring the current version of every SOP, work instruction and routing sheet is the one available to the floor.
- Excel & Access Data Tooling
- — Builds and maintains recurring spreadsheets and Access datasets — pivot tables, lookups and templates — that turn raw manufacturing observations into the repeatable metrics engineers use for decisions.
- Bottleneck & Capacity Data Support
- — Compiles and diagnoses throughput, utilization and cycle-time data to surface line constraints, supporting engineers on capacity and layout improvement projects.
- Shop-Floor Method Trials
- — Coordinates with operators to trial revised methods or cell arrangements on the line and documents before/after results so the engineer can validate an optimization change.
- Procedure Creation & Standardization
- — Designs new data-collection, measurement and documentation procedures for the plant so that cycle-time, yield and metrology results are captured consistently across shifts, cells and technicians.
- Technician Guidance & Training
- — Guides and trains junior technicians and peers on time-study technique, CMM routine setup, tools and document-control practice, correcting method errors before data reaches engineers.
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