Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

Actalent is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to join a dynamic team in Milwaukee, WI in a direct placement role. This role supports an exciting opportunity to work on innovative and challenging projects in gear manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Technical Assistance: Provide technical assistance in gear manufacturing and gear inspection, ensuring adherence to all quality standards for gears and splines.
• Design: Design hobs, cutters, and grinding wheels, utilizing UTS Gear Engineering software for calculations, creating DXF files, designing long lead tooling, and plotting gear teeth.
• Setup Sheets: Use solid models to create setup sheets, and analyze engineering drawings, solid models, sketches, and quality standards to determine program requirements.
• Manufacturing Methods: Develop new and improved manufacturing methods (DFMA), and create and maintain NC programs for gear hobbers, gear shapers, gear grinders, and gear inspection machine tools.
• Process Sheets: Create and maintain all cutting parameters on process sheets used to machine a gear, and maintain a catalogue of gear hobs, cutters, and grinding wheels, establishing sourcing of the tooling.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements, carry out improvement actions, and evaluate equipment and processes to ensure capability of meeting part requirements.
• Cost Reduction: Lead projects to upgrade, replace, and procure new equipment, prepare appropriation requests for capital projects, and identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve productivity, safety, quality, velocity, OTD, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial) preferred. Will consider Associate’s degree or equivalent from a Technical College and Journeyman’s status OR 10 years of experience in the machine trades

• A minimum of 10-15 years of gear manufacturing experience required

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook), UTS Software, CAD Design software

MUST HAVE:

1. Experience with Gearing and have worked at a manufacturer that does gearing

2. Programming

3. Strong mathematical skills, specifically Trigonometry