Job Title: Sr. Gearing Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

Actalent is seeking an experienced Sr. Gearing Manufacturing Engineer to join a dynamic team in Milwaukee, WI in a direct placement role. This role primarily supports the shovel line of business and offers an exciting opportunity to work on innovative and challenging projects in gear manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Technical Assistance: Provide technical assistance in gear manufacturing and gear inspection, ensuring adherence to all quality standards for gears and splines.

• Design: Design hobs, cutters, and grinding wheels, utilizing UTS Gear Engineering software for calculations, creating DXF files, designing long lead tooling, and plotting gear teeth.

• Setup Sheets: Use solid models to create setup sheets, and analyze engineering drawings, solid models, sketches, and quality standards to determine program requirements.

• Manufacturing Methods: Develop new and improved manufacturing methods (DFMA), and create and maintain NC programs for gear hobbers, gear shapers, gear grinders, and gear inspection machine tools.

• Process Sheets: Create and maintain all cutting parameters on process sheets used to machine a gear, and maintain a catalogue of gear hobs, cutters, and grinding wheels, establishing sourcing of the tooling.

• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements, carry out improvement actions, and evaluate equipment and processes to ensure capability of meeting part requirements.

• Cost Reduction: Lead projects to upgrade, replace, and procure new equipment, prepare appropriation requests for capital projects, and identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve productivity, safety, quality, velocity, OTD, etc.

• Tool Requisitions: Requisition all gear cutting tools, identify product design drawing errors and improvement opportunities, and facilitate changes through the RFPD system and other means.

• Operational Support: Assist with routing operation sequence, PFMEA’s, and cost estimates, develop and maintain setup sheets using Solid Works for numerically controlled machines.

• Machine Configuration: Establish machine speeds and feed rates and configuration of cuts using vendor software unique to each machine tool.

• Employee Training: Write manufacturing operating procedures and instruct hourly employees, participate in pre-production product design reviews, and engineering efforts to ensure manufacturability of new product design.

• Technical Support: Perform reverse engineering of gearing, provide technical support for reworking gearing, support maintenance by providing instructions for inspecting machine geometry, and write preventative maintenance plans.

• Equipment Management: Provide technical support for rebuild, upgrade, and enhancement of existing equipment, replacement of worn-out equipment, and procurement of new equipment to support the manufacture of P&H products.

• Vendor Evaluation: Evaluate vendor proposals, make recommendations, write CEAs, perform acceptance tests, and manage new machine tool requisitions.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial) preferred.

• Will consider Associate’s degree or equivalent from a Technical College and Journeyman’s status

• OR 10 years of experience in the machine trades.

• A minimum of 10-15 years of gear manufacturing experience required.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook), UTS Software, and CAD Design software.

• Extensive experience with gearing and having worked at a manufacturer that specializes in gearing.

• Proficiency in programming.

• Strong mathematical skills, specifically in trigonometry.

Work Environment

This is an onsite position.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $91000.00 - $135000.00

Offering full company benefits. Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, vacation, etc. Company shutdown between Christmas and New Years.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Milwaukee,WI.

Application Deadline

This position will be accepting applications until Dec 20, 2024.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent

• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com (%20actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com) for other accommodation options.