Position Summary

With decades of experience in the Industrial spanet, Parker Lord is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that enhance the safety, performance, and reliability of our products while meeting stringent requirements of our customers.

To support our team, the candidate’s primary responsibility is to identify and develop the manufacturing process for new Industrial products. This includes the development of new methods and practices for the design, manufacturing, and tooling concepts while utilizing the Simple-By-Design approach.

This role will be embedded within and work closely with Product Engineering to drive design-to-cost actions, enhance designs for manufacturability and ensure the product costs are in line with the project scope. The group works closely with plant quality, manufacturing, and process engineering functions to ensure the product’s manufacturing process and production cost targets are achievable at full-production scale.

Responsibilities

• Promoting a Safety-First workplace, encouraging the identification and closure of opportunities for safety improvements.
• The incumbent will require knowledge of bonding techniques as well as staying current on the latest technologies, products, and services.
• Establish cost estimates for bonded and assembled manufactured NPI products.
• Guide the design and quality engineering teams on GD&T and manufacturing best practices during drawing reviews and signoffs for manufacturing.
• Prodvide feedback to design engineering teams to balance manufacturability and functionality of bonded and assembled products.
• Embrace LEAN manufacturing principles, participate in LEAN events (Kaizen, Value Streams Mapping, etc.) and focus on continuous improvement.
• The incumbent will facilitate documentation over general manufacturing control systems for all industrial products, subassemblies, and raw materials (setting up and utilizing SAP BOM and Routers).
• The incumbent is responsible for documentation control and flow-down from the Customer for all applicable specifications affecting all Parker Lord manufacturing and sourcing sites.
• Successfully manage and implement multiple change requests in a timely manner as well as service customers’ expectations for an efficient change process. 
• Ownership of raw material, specification flow-down, and production operations documentation 
• The incumbent will manage the cost estimates, the cost estimation process, supplier quotations all to meet the long-term financial goals of the Product Management.
• Drive and embrace collaboration and partnership with Operations, Quality, Manufacturing and Supply Chain
• Maintain a continuous improvement (LEAN) mindset to achieve Zero Defects through product and process robustness.
• Support the Industrial plants with the implementation of cost reduction initiatives to improve quality, process performance and achieve the product target cost.
• Develop and transition a fully documented, validated, and cost-efficient product/process to full-scale production through cross-functional collaboration and functional ownership.
• Work closely with supply chain and Industrial plants to improve on-time delivery performance.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• This position requires a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Engineering
• Minimum of 2 years of Industry experience
• Strong and demonstrated written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact and contribute to a team environment.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes (i.e., Elastomer Processes, Bonding Processes, Molding process, Assembly, etc.).
• Proficiency in GD&T development and refinement
• Must be capable of communicating ideas and instructions with Parker Lord internal teams and external customers & suppliers.
• The position also requires a solid “hands-on” mechanical background with experience and understanding of fundamental machining fabrication methods including machining, heat treat and post machining processes.
• Demonstrated problem solving and leadership skills. 
• Willing to travel up to 25 of the time. Travel could be within Continental US or Internationally.

Preferred:

SAP experience 

• 3DX Enovia experience 
• Product Design Knowledge and Experience
• Knowledge of General Cost Accounting Practices
• Business Intelligence (BI) experience
• Master’s Degree in an Engineering Discipline, MBA or similar

Conditions of Employment

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or parkerhannifin.

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