Senior Manufacturing Engineer

About the role

Armstrong Fluid Technology, a global leader in fluid-flow technology with over 1,400 colleagues and eight manufacturing facilities, is hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer in Niagara Falls. The role optimizes production processes, improves product and process development, ensures product quality and drives lean manufacturing initiatives, while leading process improvements, implementing new technologies and collaborating across departments to meet safety, quality and on-time delivery goals.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize manufacturing processes to reduce cycle times and eliminate bottlenecks, and implement technical improvements and new technologies
• Support new product and process development, including labor routings, process control plans and testing plans, and coordinate updates to work instructions
• Build the capability of welding on in-house and supplier sites and improve welding performance
• Drive throughput and on-time delivery, plan value stream analysis and support daily triage reporting and weekly updates
• Review and sign off engineering drawings in PDM, coordinate productivity improvements with drawing changes and attend weekly Engineering Change Review Board meetings
• Contribute to plant safety and quality initiatives, including Job Hazard Analyses and FTQ metrics, and take corrective action on quality and safety concerns
• Work with technical, quality, procurement and production teams, and support the Quality Department with CAR meetings and PPAP documentation
• Drive lean initiatives such as cycle time measurement, 5S, Kaizen and value stream mapping, and promote lean principles across the organization

Required profile

• Engineering degree in Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
• 10 years of manufacturing technology experience, ideally in industrial, automotive or aerospace manufacturing
• 5 years of fabrication engineering and 5 years of welding experience
• 5 years of Lean manufacturing experience; experience leading Lean promotion preferred
• Experience in pump assembly or similar industries (fluid systems, machinery, mechanical products) preferred
• Regular shop floor presence expected

Required skills

• SolidWorks and CAD (AutoCAD) for assembly drawings, jigs and fixtures
• Fabrication, painting, welding and testing
• SPC, root cause analysis and FMEA
• Lean, Six Sigma and 5S
• Infor ERP (preferably LN 10.7)
• Process control plans and testing plans
• Fluent written and spoken English