Great management opportunity to work for a prosperous, family owned business!
Bruno Independent Living Aids has helped improve the lives of people with limited mobility for over 40 years. Engineered and manufactured in the USA, Bruno indoor stairlifts, outdoor stairlifts and vertical platform lifts help people better access homes, public buildings and businesses, and Bruno's full line of scooter/powerchair lifts help people easily transport their mobility devices.
Overview:
Perform a variety of duties to determine that materials, products and/or processes are in accordance with specifications and requirements. Perform standard inspections. Make visual, dimensional, electrical, or mechanical inspections of materials, processes, assemblies, or sub-assemblies. Serve as subject matter expert for CMM Operations and Programming. Use a variety of precision measuring equipment. Refer deviations from specifications to appropriate personnel. Maintain records pertinent to function.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to evaluate the quality of parts being manufactured
- Perform hands-on inspections of manufactured and purchased parts
- Calibrate manual inspection tools and equipment – maintain calibration database.
- Read blueprints, welding symbols and engineering drawings and compare against completed parts to assure manufacturing accuracy
- Perform mathematics to determine why products do not conform to standards
- Recommend drawing changes to engineers for simplicity or ease of understanding
- Evaluate extent of product non-conformances and determine disposition of purchased product, work in process and finished goods.
- Communicate and follow up with suppliers regarding inspection processes
- Provide input in decisions on programming, equipment and software and act as subject matter expert for the CMM
- Using advanced knowledge and application of CMM Programming skills will create CMM programs for new and existing parts
- Ability to perform advanced troubleshooting on the CMM and work with vendors to resolve CMM mechanical or software problems
- Provide support for New Product Development and Tool Design with respect to programming and fixture design for new parts
- Conduct full layout inspection for PPAPs / RPAPs / ISIRs
- Provide training on CMM Operation and Programming as needed
- Experience with Dimensional Measuring Tools such as Micrometers, Calipers, Height and Radius Gages, Pin Gages, Thread Gages, Plug Gages, and Optical Comparator
- Set priorities for other techs as needed
- Must be hands on and proactive about correcting problems
Education and Experience:
- Technical certificate or associate degree is preferred. Minimum 5 years inspection experience in a manufacturing environment and minimum 5 years CMM experience, including programming, is required.
- Experience with arm style CMM is preferred as well as PC-Dmis and/or Polyworks softwares.
- Experience with ISO 9001, calibration and non-conformance systems is required. Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing is preferred.
Skills and Abilities:
- Read, analyze, and interpret a variety of information, such as technical procedures, business correspondence, and governmental regulations furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Create business-level written correspondence and verbally present information to internal and external customers.
- Requires job related software skills including MS Office and Adobe Acrobat and the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands:
- Environment is a modern production facility with heat and air conditioning.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to move around, sit, stand, use hands to finger, handle, and touch; reach above shoulders and talk and hear.
- The employee is required to operate pallet jack, hoist, and hand tools.
- The employee is required to lift up to 25 pounds regularly; up to 50 pounds occasionally, with higher weights requiring assistance
Bruno is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer which provides a drug-free workplace. We encourage minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply. We do not discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation will be provided to individuals with disabilities to work through the application process. To request accommodation consideration, please call 262-###-#### and ask for Human Resources or email ...@bruno.com .