Manufacturing Engineer

About Taurus Engineering

Taurus Engineering provides custom-engineered solutions and equipment for the artificial lift industry, serving customers from Southern California to major markets around the world. With specialized manufacturing and testing capabilities, we combine responsive customer service with a commitment to quality, precision, and continuous improvement.

About the role

The Manufacturing Engineer will work closely with design engineering and the materials management production department to identify and continuously improve personnel safety, quality, process efficiency, and product production costs. This highly dynamic position requires significant multitasking and exceptional communication skills across all aspects of production

What you'll do

• Partner with production, engineering, and purchasing to maximize productivity and minimize cost while achieving safety, quality, and throughput targets.
• Support daily production and troubleshoot technical issues
• Develop, update, and maintain work instructions for all production processes.
• Develop, update, and maintain maintenance schedules.  
• Work with production to ensure employees are properly trained

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience working on a variety of technical production/assembly problems of moderate scope and complexity where analysis of the situation and data has been used to improve production processes.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing and production engineering principles, concepts, and general production/assembly operations.
• Experience using systematic problem solving through root cause analysis, process design for manufacturing, bills of material structure, process plans and routings.
• Hands-on skills in producing and assembling basic mechanical components.
• Skilled at reading and understanding Engineering drawings.
• Proficient in using solid modeling software.
• Skilled at creating written instructions.