Develop tools, implement designs, or integrate machinery, equipment, or computer technologies to ensure effective manufacturing processes.
<ul><li>Ensure adherence to safety rules and practices.</li><li>Monitor manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.</li><li>Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.</li><li>Identify opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.</li><li>Plan, estimate, or schedule production work.</li><li>Evaluate manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.</li><li>Identify or implement new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.</li><li>Develop or maintain programs associated with automated production equipment.</li><li>Prepare layouts, drawings, or sketches of machinery or equipment, such as shop tooling, scale layouts, or new equipment design, using drafting equipment or computer-aided design (CAD) software.</li><li>Estimate manufacturing costs.</li><li>Oversee equipment start-up, characterization, qualification, or release.</li><li>Develop manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.</li><li>Select material quantities or processing methods needed to achieve efficient production.</li><li>Verify weights, measurements, counts, or calculations and record results on batch records.</li><li>Develop production, inventory, or quality assurance programs.</li><li>Create computer applications for manufacturing processes or operations, using computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) tools.</li><li>Train manufacturing technicians on topics such as safety, health, fire prevention, or quality.</li><li>Analyze manufacturing supply chains to identify opportunities for increased efficiency in the acquisition of raw materials.</li><li>Monitor manufacturing operations to ensure adherence to environmental policies and practices.</li><li>Evaluate current or proposed manufacturing processes or practices for environmental sustainability, considering factors such as green house gas emissions, air pollution, water pollution, energy use, or waste creation.</li><li>Perform routine equipment maintenance.</li><li>Coordinate equipment purchases, installations, or transfers.</li><li>Design plant layouts or production facilities.</li><li>Install manufacturing engineering equipment.</li><li>Develop sustainable manufacturing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, minimize raw material use, replace toxic materials with non-toxic materials, replace non-renewable materials with renewable materials, or reduce waste.</li><li>Develop processes to recover, recycle, or reuse waste or scrap materials from manufacturing operations.</li><li>Train manufacturing technicians on environmental protection topics.</li></ul>