Manufacturing Engineer
Tangent Technologies, LLC · Montgomery, IL
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at Tangent Technologies, LLC (industrial) in Montgomery, IL. In Fab and Assembly, work closely with New Product Development team to transition approved designs into mass manufacturing.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Kaizen, Root cause, SPC, FMEA, PPAP, APQP
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How this role compares
Against 27 other live manufacturing postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $89k–$134k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 61%
- ✓ Root cause 57%
- ✓ Automation 46%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 36%
- ✓ Tooling 25%
- Robotics 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for PPAP, APQP, Extrusion, Plant layout, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at Tangent Technologies, LLC
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- 2
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
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Requirements
Role and
Responsibilities
- ◆In Fab and Assembly, work closely with New Product Development team to transition approved designs into mass manufacturing.
- ◆In Extrusion, work closely with manufacturing, tooling and maintenance to ensure low cost, high quality production is continuously at the forefront
- ◆Refine and scale the manufacturing process for our current and new products.
- ◆Study production and machine
requirements
- ✓Develop and test effective automated and manual systems.
- ✓Design and install equipment.
- ✓Organize and manage manufacturing workflows and resources.
- ✓Integrate disparate systems (e.g. equipment handling, transport)
- ✓Optimize facility layouts, production lines, machine operations and network performance.
- ✓Partner with a multi-disciplinary team in creating process flow diagrams, FMEA, following and recording the APQP steps and leading a successful PPAP run of new and existing products.
- ✓Identify wastes between current and ideal manufacturing visions, with the goal of reducing costs and lead time of specific production lines.
- ✓Plan, lead, & execute improvement projects, A3, Kaizens, & Six-Sigma activities.
- ✓Research automation techniques to maximize the efficiency of production lines.
- ✓Develop and maintain quality assurance programs, specifications, procedures and equipment to meet process specifications.
- ✓Responsible for implementing the quality system procedures to ensure 100% FTT efficiency.
- ✓Coordinate with extrusion partners to optimize material usage and reduce waste.
- ✓Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, and implementing SPC data gathering and analysis processes, to help production team improve their reaction time to defects and problems.
Required skills/abilities
- ✓Proactive and independent with the ability to take initiative.
- ✓Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- ✓Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- ✓Ability to lead teams not directly reporting to you.
Education and experience
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing or Industrial engineering or related field.
- ✓3-5 years experience
physical
requirements
- ✓Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- ✓Ability to lift up to 25 lbs
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Description
Responsible and accountable for the cost, quality, and manufacturability of new and existing product lines. Tangent’s Manufacturing Engineers will be leading the initiative to ensure the successful and efficient production of our core products.