Manufacturing Engineers
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Design, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. May work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase producibility and decrease costs.
What you’d do
- Troubleshoot new or existing product problems involving designs, materials, or processes.
- Investigate or resolve operational problems, such as material use variances or bottlenecks.
- Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve manufacturing processes or products or to reduce costs, using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design, materials and parts.
- Apply continuous improvement methods, such as lean manufacturing, to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness.
- Provide technical expertise or support related to manufacturing.
- Incorporate new manufacturing methods or processes to improve existing operations.
- Review product designs for manufacturability or completeness.
- Determine root causes of failures or recommend changes in designs, tolerances, or processing methods, using statistical procedures.
Skills that matter
- Complex Problem Solving
- Mathematics
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Monitoring
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Plant Engineer
- Process Engineer
- Process Improvement Engineer
- Facility Engineer
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