Manufacturing Engineer Job Details | John… at John Deere · Waterloo

Summary: John Deere is a leading company focused on providing solutions for food, fiber, and infrastructure for a growing world. The Manufacturing Engineer role involves supporting continuous improvement processes and developing manufacturing solutions to enhance safety, quality, and efficiency in operations.

Responsibilities:
- Support the continuous improvement process by developing manufacturing process and tooling solutions that improve safety, ergonomics, quality, and costs
- Participate in the development of department line balances and layouts following the Line Balance as a Process and Flow Line Design guidelines
- Actively support operator certification by ensuring training rigor and evaluating proficiency to engineered standards
- Establish routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, methods documentation, quality plans and labor standards for revisions to current operations and/or new parts or programs
- Maintain the accuracy of process documentation through verification auditing and updating for process improvements
- Participate in analysis, development and implementation of new manufacturing processes and technology
- Develop, maintain and improve operations layouts to improve material flow and material presentation
- Implement new/improved manufacturing processes and technology
- Support and participate in departmental CI Grow & Natural Work Group activities
- Provide daily shop floor support

Required Qualifications:
- Manufacturing engineering experience obtained through projects, internships or practical work experience
- Experience in shop floor environment and exposure to continuous improvement process
- Experience troubleshooting manufacturing issues and determining root cause
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with both salary and wage workforce
- Ability and willingness to work off-shift hours (occasional) in support of production and equipment installation
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Ag, Industrial or Systems) or Technology (Manufacturing, Industrial, Systems)

Preferred Qualifications:
- 1 or more years of experience in assembly manufacturing engineering
- Experience developing work instructions, Operator Method Sheets(OMS), assembly manufacturing processes, tooling and/or equipment
- Experience with the following software programs: Windchill, AutoCAD, MPP
- Experience with Industrial Engineering basic motion, time study, and line balancing
- Experience with shop floor manufacturing incentive pay systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium scope projects
- Experience with precision assembly methods

Required Skills: Manufacturing Engineering, Continuous Improvement Process, Manufacturing Process Development, Tooling Solutions, Safety and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, Cost Management in Manufacturing, Line Balancing, Flow Line Design, Operator Certification, Process Documentation, Manufacturing Process Auditing, New Manufacturing Technology Implementation, Operations Layout Improvement, Shop Floor Support, Troubleshooting Manufacturing Issues, Root Cause Analysis, Assembly Manufacturing Engineering, Work Instructions Development, Operator Method Sheets (OMS), AutoCAD, Windchill, Microsoft Project (MPP), Industrial Engineering Motion Study, Time Study, Line Balancing Techniques, Manufacturing Incentive Pay Systems, Precision Assembly Methods, Quality Management

Benefits: Flexible work arrangements, Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution), Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account, Adoption assistance, Employee Assistance Programs, Tuition assistance, Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations, Charitable contribution match, Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use, Vacation and Holiday Pay