Sr Advanced Manufacturing Engineer
Milwaukee Tool · Grenada, MS
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Travel
- 30%
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Milwaukee Tool (industrial) in Grenada, MS. Develop, validate and implement sustainable, robust and reliable manufacturing processes, equipment and mechanical systems.
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FMEA, DOE, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), PLC, Tooling
- Day to day
- about 30% travel
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About the role
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- ✓Develop piping and instrumentation diagrams, process flow diagrams, utility schematics, equipment specifications and installation requirements.
- ✓Select and specify piping, tubing, fittings, valves, regulators, filters, flowmeters, pressure instruments, pumps and other fluid-handling components for compatibility, capacity, accuracy and maintainability.
- ✓Assess fluid-system behavior across normal operating conditions, startup, shutdown, upset conditions and process extremes.
- ✓Lead troubleshooting of insufficient flow, pressure instability, contamination, leakage, excessive pressure drop, heat generation, cavitation and other fluid-system performance issues.
- ✓Plan and execute validation testing to confirm fluid delivery, repeatability, process capability and equipment performance against defined acceptance criteria.
- ✓Ensure designs incorporate appropriate risk controls, maintainability, isolation points and applicable environmental, health and safety
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in partnership with EHS and facility stakeholders.
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and controls acceptance criteria for equipment suppliers and integrators.
- ✓Verify that mechanical, fluid and electrical-control interfaces function together as an integrated system during design reviews, FAT, installation, SAT and production qualification.
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Job Description
INNOVATE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES! At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success – so we give you unlimited access to everything you need to create disruptive new technologies and solutions. on our electrical engineering teams. Our Engineering Team is responsible for giving life to the batteries, motors, and electronics that power solutions changing the lives of our users. Every developmental phase of these critical components happens in-house under the watch of this team. We continue to invest in electrical engineering resources to design and develop leadership in electronic capabilities; something unique within the industry. And we’re pushing the limits in firmware engineering, power electronics, embedded systems, machine learning, and the use of artificial intelligence.
Behind our doors you’ll be empowered every day to own it, drive it, and do what it takes to design and develop the biggest breakthroughs in the industry. Meanwhile, you’ll have the support and resources of the fastest-growing brand in the construction industry to make it happen.
Year after year, our team continues to make significant breakthroughs in the industry. We’re just getting started. To learn more about our story click HERE .
Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Process Development
- •Develop, validate and implement sustainable, robust and reliable manufacturing processes, equipment and mechanical systems.
- •Lead mechanical design and analysis of machine structures, mechanisms, tooling, fixtures, workholding, guarding, piping systems and process equipment.
- •Apply engineering fundamentals including statics, dynamics, strength of materials, machine design, heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to manufacturing applications.
- •Create and review engineering calculations, equipment specifications, design packages, tolerance analyses and technical documentation.
- •Use SolidWorks, AutoCAD or equivalent engineering software to develop layouts, models, drawings and design concepts.
- •Provide strong emphasis on fixture and gaging design, development, validation and implementation for safe, repeatable process performance.
- •Use prototyping and structured testing methods to develop engineering samples, verify design intent and reduce technical risk.
- •Partner with New Product Development engineers to evaluate product designs and recommend improvements for manufacturability, assembly, quality and cost.
- •Lead equipment suppliers and integrators in the development and delivery of custom manufacturing solutions.
- •Research and evaluate new technologies and breakthrough processes that create a competitive manufacturing advantage.
Fluid Dynamics and Process Utility Systems
- •Serve as the technical lead for industrial fluid systems involving compressed air, nitrogen, natural gas or propane, water, coolant, lubricants, hydraulic systems, vacuum and process exhaust, as applicable.
- •Perform and document fluid-system calculations including flow rate, pressure drop, velocity, line sizing, Cv, regulator and valve selection, pump or compressor
Electrical Controls and PLC Support
- •Provide supporting electrical-controls expertise for machine integration, commissioning and troubleshooting; this is a secondary responsibility to mechanical and fluid-system ownership.
- •Read and interpret electrical schematics, control panel layouts, I/O drawings, network architecture and device documentation.
- •Troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment, sensors, actuators, interlocks, variable-frequency drives, servo systems, HMIs and industrial communications in partnership with controls engineers and technicians.
- •Perform minor PLC and HMI program modifications within established change-control, backup, validation and safety requirements.
- •Support Allen-Bradley ControlLogix and CompactLogix platforms and Siemens S7 platforms, or equivalent plant-standard controls.
- •Develop functional descriptions, sequence-of-operation documents, I/O
Process Validation, Reliability and Continuous Improvement
- •Apply Design of Experiments, FMEA, PFMEA, statistical data analysis, capability analysis, risk analysis, flow layout and related engineering tools to evaluate and improve processes.
- •Perform calculation-based and software-aided analyses to demonstrate process reliability, capability, safety and sustainability.
- •Develop test plans, acceptance criteria and validation reports for mechanical, fluid and integrated automated systems.
- •Use root-cause ana