Process Engineer

The Production Engineer provides hands-on technical support for daily transformer manufacturing operations. Working closely with Production, Engineering, Quality, Materials, Planning, and Maintenance, this role improves safety, quality, delivery, cost, and overall production performance.

The Production Engineer resolves manufacturing issues, eliminates bottlenecks, standardizes processes, and provides timely technical guidance to supervisors, leads, and operators. This role also proactively analyzes production trends, anticipates recurring issues, and collects, interprets, and clearly communicates the data needed to develop effective, sustainable solutions.

Develop, standardize, and maintain manufacturing documentation while identifying and isolating critical components and process characteristics. Ensure all critical requirements are properly documented, validated, and verified to support product quality, process consistency, and compliance with engineering and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Production Support

• Support daily production goals and schedule attainment.
• Resolve problems affecting safety, quality, delivery, or cost.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve production flow.
• Provide technical guidance for production personnel.
• Communicate risks and corrective actions during production meetings.
• Ensure manufacturing follows approved specifications and will escalate through the proper channels if needed.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret manufacturing data to identify trends, recurring failures, and opportunities for continuous improvement.

Transformer Manufacturing Support

Provide technical support for transformer coil manufacturing process, core assembly, lead fabrication, brazing and welding, mechanical assembly, oil processing, electrical testing, final inspection, and RMA operations.

Process Improvement

• Improve throughput, cycle time, labor efficiency, and equipment utilization.
• Reduce scrap, rework, downtime, and unnecessary material movement.
• Conduct time studies, capacity reviews, and workload-balancing analyses.
• Improve layouts, ergonomics, material flow, and operator accessibility.
• Lead 5S, identify standard work, and initiate clear work instructions.
• Measure and document improvement results.

Manufacturing Documentation

• Develop and maintain SOPs, work instructions, process flows, and visual aids.
• Review drawings, specifications, BOMs, and production routings.
• Implement current engineering revisions and remove obsolete documents.
• Establish critical process parameters and quality checkpoints.
• Support operator training and competency programs.

Quality and Root-Cause Analysis

• Investigate defects, process deviations, and recurring production problems.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action activities.
• Support investigations for CAPA, nonconformance, customer complaint, and RMA.
• Improve first-pass yield and reduce internal defects.
• Support inspections and ISO 9001 audits.
• Verify that corrective actions are effective and sustained.

Manufacturing Readiness

• Review new and revised designs for manufacturability and operator capacity.
• Confirm drawings, materials, tooling, routings, and instructions are ready for production.
• Support prototype builds, new product introductions, and process validation.
• Coordinate Engineering Change Order implementation with all departments.
• Communicate manufacturing concerns and recommendations to Engineering.
• Utilize statistical analysis and problem-solving methodologies to validate improvements.