American Plastics, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative plastic-injection molded products for the household & garage storage and commercial cleaning end-markets. We are searching for an entry level Production Engineer for our Jefferson City, MO location. This is an onsite plant based position. This position will report to the Manufacturing Engineer.
Responsibilities:
• Maintain & enforce product quality inspection and testing requirements.
• Optimize plant operations to meet plant and business goals in asset capability, quality, and budget/cost
• Identify areas of opportunity and implement changes in production methods for new and existing processes; facility layouts; production flow and equipment; new product testing; and packaging and shipping, in order to reduce cost, increase efficiency and improve quality
• Develop and drive initiatives aimed at improvements to productivity and first-pass yield
• Develop programs/methods to optimize producibility and reduce cycle time
• Quality Control experience with the ability to investigate non-conforming materials, in-process or finished goods failures and field returns and report on these areas
• Write non-conforming material reports, Process/Product change notification, manufacturing procedures, and work instructions
• Attain a full understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures with the ability to translate them to implementation in the plant
• Lead operations’ drive to zero (zero injuries and zero unplanned events)
• Lead and participate in Root Cause Investigations for unplanned events
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