Plant Engineer in Nicholasville, Kentucky at Sargent & Greenleaf Inc

Job Title: Plant Engineer Department: Facilities

FLSA Status: Exempt Travel: N/A

Reports to: Operations Director Location: Nicholasville KY

Sargent and Greenleaf delivers proven security solutions that protect people and assets at home, at work, and in communities around the world. For the past 160+ years, their high-security locks and industry expertise have been trusted by governments, banks, and businesses of all kinds to meet their security needs and counter emerging threats. S&G’s portfolio of high-quality electronic and mechanical locks are used in a wide range of applications including gun safes, commercial safes, ATMs, vaults, and highly sensitive SCIF environments.??

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Our unique portfolio of locks and locking systems serves a wide range of our customers’ security needs across industries and applications. Together, we are on a mission to make the world more secure today and in the future.?

Job Summary:

This hands-on position will be an integral team member helping maximize production output, drive continuous manufacturing and assembly process improvement efforts, assisting with new product introductions, and assuring the effective utilization of equipment and materials while maintaining safety, quality and cost standards aimed at meeting customers’ quality, cost, and on-time delivery expectations.?

Responsibilities:

Conduct preventive maintenance to mechanical devices?

Detect malfunctions through observation (sound or visual)?

Run diagnostic tests to ensure system functionality

Repair broken or faulty machine parts

Perform emergency repairs

Choose appropriate materials based on mechanical needs

Align and calibrate machine parts

Monitor and report on project progress

Follow safety rules and regulations

Conducts lift truck, confined space, and rigging training

Develop, implement, and maintain processes and equipment to support production.

Provide operational and technical support.

Ensure product quality during transfer from engineering to production, including design and process validation.

Resolve highly complex technical mechanical, electrical & electro-mechanical issues.

Troubleshoot manufacturing and assembly line issues along with quality and offer support.

Analyze, develop, evaluate, implement, improve, and document manufacturing equipment, tooling, processes, and products.

Collaborate with planning and R&D design staff concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production processes.

Assist with analyzing and planning work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow and design layout of equipment and workspace for optimum efficiency and safety.

Evaluate rework and reject levels for design, process, and training improvement opportunities.

Institute process and product improvements resulting in a positive impact on production cycle time, product costs and product quality.

Confer with management, engineering and other team members regarding manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production processes.

Develop and evaluate equipment and processes to produce a high-quality product at a competitive cost.

Facilitate the development of corrective action plans to resolve both external & internal quality or delivery issues.

Conduct production feasibility reviews; generate assembly instructions and tooling.

Provide technical direction, and training for operators performing detailed process steps to ensure that production assemblers, testers, inspectors, and support staff have necessary skills, appropriate documentation, tooling, and process control capability.?

Assist with ISO 9001 process implementation and maintenance.

Liaison with EHS, Safety, and Hazmat

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.

Write routine reports and correspondence.

Speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Experience in investigating and implementing effective countermeasures.

Strong knowledge of product BOM structure creation, modification, routings as well as parts maintenance, i.e., change notices and action.

Experience in NetSuite systems is preferred.

Experience designing, building, and/or debugging mechanical, electrical & electro-mechanical assemblies desired, as well as knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerance.?

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field.

Understanding GD&T including geometric dimensioning and tolerances.

Physical Requirements:

Regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.

Occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Occasionally work near moving mechanical parts.

Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.?

S&G Vision & Values:

S&G is a passionate team with a continuous improvement culture dedicated to delivering trusted and transformative locking solutions while consistently exceeding customer expectations.

Must be a champion of the S&G corporate values of accountability, integrity, respect, teamwork, community, innovation, and leadership.

S&G is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.