POSITION SUMMARY:
The Metal Additive Engineer designs for additive manufacturing and operation of metal 3D printers using SolidWorks. Work with a cross functional team of engineering, sales and customer support developing and executing a business plan to achieve growth in the 3D printing market.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Be an active contributor within a team of engineers who perform the design, development, and testing of all facets of the additive process
- Assess AM part candidates for material and equipment selection, manufacturability, design optimization, and how all those relate to a parts business case
- Generate optimized designs and build files to produce high quality parts in minimum time with maximum consistency
- Work with other engineers to help refine the design of existing parts and optimize new parts to leverage additive technology
- Work with Materials Engineers to investigate properties, geometric accuracy, and surface finish to develop optimal print parameters, heat treatments, and design allowables for existing and new alloys
- Ability to handle multiple competing projects simultaneously
- Ability to analyze complex problems, develop innovative solutions, and deal with ambiguity and frequent changes in priorities is required
- Create reports and materials to support company projects and activities
- Participate in continuous improvement projects and ISO 9001 type activities
- Support customer sales development activities via technical exchanges and communications
- Design and Detail molds, models and fixtures
- Communicates with outside customers
- Housekeeping in the Additive Rooms
- Specify additive materials
- Read and understand blueprints and drawings
- Has an intimate working knowledge of multiple powder bed additive manufacturing machines
- Utilize six-sigma quality tools, when appropriate, to define, measure, analyze, improve and control processes and outcomes.
- Responsible to maintain & support processes, procedures & K.P.I.’s owned by your position.
- Review of all procedures related to your job per “HR LG 01 Training Matrix”
- Completion within time stated of all training required by Job Description in “HR LG 01 Training Matrix”
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Regular and punctual attendance.
- Follow all Company policies and procedures.
