Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.
Objectives of this role - Work with production planning and operations to ensure the safe manufacture of nuclear fuel for power plants
- Analyze existing systems and processes and identify value-added and non-value-added activities to solve design challenges
- Evaluate new and existing processes, equipment, and materials as an input for scheduling methods, performance metrics, and financial standards
- Uphold the company's reputation by delivering innovative solutions while adhering to commitments made to government regulators
Responsibilities - Identify opportunities for preventing waste and inefficiency during production
- Research and test design ideas to determine feasibility, utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen and Six Sigma to formulate and support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements
- Design and develop robust manufacturing concepts to simplify and improve processes and ensure best practices
- Create and maintain required product specifications, preventative maintenance, and procedures for manufacturing processes
- Work with quality engineering to disposition material that has deviated from normal manufacturing processes
- Collaborate with manufacturing areas upstream and downstream of your processes to ensure timely product flow through the manufacturing floor
- Track Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for your assigned areas, and drive changes to help improve OEE
- Work with area manager to track Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and implement process improvements to help eliminate scrap and rework processes in your area(s)
Required skills and qualifications - Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical preferred)
- 3-5 years' experience
- In-depth understanding of lean manufacturing principles
- Hands-on experience building small prototypes
- Proficiency with analytical tools, workflow time studies, and process balancing
- Ability to collaborate with program managers, manufacturing leads, customers, and functional leads, and to provide daily direction and guidance to other process engineers, and operators
- Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Preferred skills and qualifications - Nuclear experience preferred, but not required
Why Westinghouse?Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system: - Safety and Quality
- Integrity and Trust
- Customer Focus and Innovation
- Speed and Passion to Win
- Teamwork and Accountability
Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer: - Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
- 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
- Paid Vacations and Holidays
- Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
- Educational Reimbursement Program
- Employee Referral Program
While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com. EOE of Minorities / Females / Vets / Disability.Get connected with Westinghouse on social media:
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