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Manufacturing Engineer
Job description
Combined Metals is a premier North American processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire built through 50 years of growth and acquisition. Combined Metals is the largest independent processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire in North America.  With nine service centers, Combined Metals supports over 3,000 customers in the Aerospace, Defense, Nuclear, Medical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Electrification, Automotive, and Consumer industries.  Decades of quality and reliability have made Combined Metals™ a chosen source in performance applications.
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot and make corrections to machinery or operation settings to correct for material defects being introduced.
- Work with Maintenance to improve equipment or introduce equipment to improve a process or improve material quality.
- Work with Process Engineers to drive process improvement through lowering costs, processing time, improving communication, product movement, available tools, etc.
- Investigate problems in production and identify Root Causes and implement Corrective Actions.
- Investigate systemic problems in production and be able to propose creative solutions to fix root causes of problems.
- Collect, analyze, summarize, and present production and process data to management.
- Use software tools to identify trends in data.
- Work with Maintenance to implement PM’s.
- Create or modify work instructions in MS Word/Excel.
- Implement Lean/6-Sigma improvements in production.
- Collect, analyze, summarize, and present production and process data, information, and trends to
- Generate reports, manual and automated, that effectively communicate the state of production via the department’s KPI’s.
- Collaborate with Maintenance and Production regarding tooling life and design.
- Recommend changes that lead to improvements in product quality, process effectiveness and/or lower cost of manufacture.
Qualifications:
- High school degree or equivalent required
- Manufacturing Engineering Degree or equivalent preferred
- Manufacturing Experience is preferred.
- Have basic computer skills
- Have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and Power Term
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Combmet.com now features our entire family of companies and provides simple navigation to all products and services in one website. We also added a Resource section with tools and information to elevate your digital experience. Don't forget our RFQ form for all of your strip, sheet, blanks, polishing, & wire needs. Who We Are: The Combined Metals Company, LLC (formerly Combined Metals of Chicago ) processes and distributes over 75 alloys of precision strip, wire, sheet, and blanks. Our precision rolling mills, drawing mills, and extensive network of independent North American service centers, support thousands of customers in many industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Chemical, Consumer, Defense, Electronics, Medical, Oil/Gas, and Power Generation, worldwide. Decades of quality and reliability have made our companies the preferred source for consumer and mission-critical applications. The Combined Metals Company solves customers’ challenges through three businesses: Elgiloy Specialty Metals (ESM) is a processor of over 75 high-performance stainless, nickel, specialty metals, titanium, and cobalt alloys, including our own Elgiloy® alloy. ESM provides precision strip, foil, and drawn wire products distributed globally for high performance and mission-critical applications. Combined Service Centers (CSC) brings global sourcing to a group of service centers distributing precision strip, custom slit coil, sheet, blanks, stamped circles, and coil-to-coil polishing/buffing, in stainless steel and other specialty alloys.