National Carwash Solutions has grown over the past 50 years to become North America's largest equipment, service, and cleaning solutions provider in the car wash industry. Our world-class brands are backed by the largest service network in the country with more than 500 dedicated service professionals and growing. The Manufacturing Process Engineer will play an active role in our continued growth and execution in our Bolingbrook facility.
Come join us for an extraordinary career in a high growth, team-oriented company!
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. NCS does not sponsor employment visas, including H-1B, O-1, or TN visas, for this position.
- Analyze production equipment downtime, cycle time, and process data across NCS manufacturing facilities to identify trends, bottlenecks, and root causes
- Design, build, and maintain KPI dashboards and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) that give operations and engineering leadership visibility into throughput, quality, safety, and cost performance
- Lead critical company initiatives that have high visibility with the executive team and sponsors. Provide direction and structured accountability to resource teams assigned to these mid-to-long projects.
- Lead or facilitate value stream mapping (VSM) events to identify waste and prioritize improvement opportunities across the value stream
- Inspect equipment and processes being designed and built utilizing the appropriate tools to ensure items meet Design and Engineering specifications
- Be involved with the complete design and execution of processes, the fixtures, templates, locators, etc. used in the manufacturing and operations processes
- Construction and maintenance of fixtures, templates, locators and miscellaneous equipment used in the manufacturing process
- Play an active role in the culture of continuous improvement
- Review and analyze manufacturing functions, submitting suggestions to improve efficiency, quality, safety and cost
- Provide programming assistance on various manufacturing machines and may train employees to perform the same
- Review cost savings or any type of other suggestion submitted by employees pertaining to the manufacturing process. Participates in investigating and responding to the same
- Act as a liaison between design, engineering and manufacturing. Coordinating manufacturing abilities with engineering specifications and requests, and product design requirements
- Work with manufacturing management to provide practical training for the manufacturing process
- Play an active role on in sourcing projects that may include documenting or reverse engineering items to be made in house
- Comply with all applicable OSHA, EPA, local regulatory laws, and company safety policies
- Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of this position at any time
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial engineering or industrial technology
- Experience with scoping, creating ROIs, and on-boarding new capital equipment.
- Ability to travel regularly, up to 30 - 50% at times depending on the location of projects
- Ability to read and understand piece part and welding blue prints as designed by the Engineering Department
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and/or as part as a cross functional team
- Required to be familiar with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with metal fabrication, bending, machining, and/or welding a plus.
- Experience with both discrete and process-based manufacturing environments a plus
- PLC programming and industrial automation experience a plus
- Experience with IoT product implementation and or use a plus
- Experience with data automation and analytical tools a plus
- Must stoop, bend, reach, walk; perform repetitive motions using hands to grasp, push, pull or do fine manipulations
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