Who Are We?
American Augers, located in West Salem, Ohio is a division of The Toro Company. American Augers builds the largest horizontal directional drills in the industry, and a full range of auger boring machines. With the rugged user in mind, American Augers rigs are built to last and backed by 24-hour worldwide support.
The Manufacturing/Industrial Engineer is reporting to the Manufacturing Technical Services Manager, responsible for determining methods, processes, and equipment required in the manufacturing of metal fabricated components. Responsible for developing, analyzing, and documenting cost information for existing and new product development, design and cost improvement, maintenance, make vs. buy, and managing product cost to target.
What Will You Do?
In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for:
Participate in engineering practices to aid in the development of annual and long-term business plans. Designs, justifies, develops, and implements the engineering portions of the plans.
Prepares IAR's (Investment Authorization Requests); coordinates the investigation, selection, installation, prove-out and training to successfully integrate projects into the unit.
Reviews new parts in the concept stage. Makes recommendations to standardize features, promote cost effective zero defect manufacturing, and improve functionality that support DFMA.
Determine parts to be produced within the Value Stream. Provides manufacturing input and coordination to design project teams to assure timely and effective new part introductions.
Determine routings through work centers based on part requirements and work center capabilities.
Prepares supporting documentation (cost estimate/tooling budgets) for new project development milestones and all other product redesign as assigned.
Provides analyzed cost data to Engineering, Marketing, and Finance for use in determining project direction, product pricing, parts pricing, budgeting P&L’s, and internal rate of return investment calculations.
Provides direct interface to Engineering on process capability, materials utilization, and design alternatives to optimize value.
Analyze and provide solutions for problems which adversely affect quality, productivity, safety, flexibility, and cost.
Develop, update, and maintain process documentation and costing data for manufacturing equipment.
Review and evaluate the sourcing of parts pertaining to the production unit. Recommend alternate sourcing when appropriate. Provide direction for long term sourcing decisions.
Provide support for key or specialized processes with functions such as tool design, tool layouts, CNC programming, set-up data/procedures and metallurgical analysis.
Apply Total Quality, Project Management and LEAN principles in the daily performance of the job.
Negligible travel required (