Manufacturing Engineer - Colorado

About the Role

• In the role you will dive into Charm’s manufacturing processes and help solve critical challenges that move us forward towards reaching our carbon removal goals!
• The role is responsible for evaluating all steps of the manufacturing process (mechanical tooling, work instructions, machine design, process flow design, etc.) and rapidly implementing improvements.
• This role reports to our Lead Manufacturing & Process Engineer in Colorado at the Fort Lupton production site where you will be working on a team of cross functional engineers and technicians to accomplish your goals.

Your Responsibilities:

• Establish baseline process flow models to capture the current state of the manufacturing system; use these to highlight and prioritize opportunities for improvement
• Generate new and improved engineering work instructions with dynamic visual aids, data collection techniques, and clear/concise language to ensure reliable operation execution
• Utilize digital manufacturing tools (MES, ERP, etc.) to help improve existing production processes and inform new hardware development workflows
• Work alongside the Operations team to gather verbal/written feedback on key operator pain points that you can subsequently solve.
• Collaborate with our Training department to develop and continuously improve robust training materials and process designs to set the manufacturing team up for success.
• Contribute to new product design processes and design reviews to implement high quality process design & design-for-operations strategies into Charm’s products.

You Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in process engineering or working in a manufacturing environment.
• A degree in Mechanical/Aerospace/Chemical/etc. Engineering, or other relevant educational background
• A self-starter who can identify process and design improvements that will make the system more operable, and the engineering acumen to see those through to completion.
• Proven ability to own a machine and work cell continual improvement and development.
• Experience working alongside operators to understand human factors considerations, tooling needs, and process inefficiencies (ex. Gathering voice of the customer feedback).
• A desire to be hands on with equipment more than half the time.

Bonus, if You Bring:

• Mechanical design experience and/or tooling design experience
• Experience executing hardware tests and test campaigns.
• You have some knowledge of pyrolysis, gasification or other thermal conversion processes.
• You have a familiarity with Linux, Python and scripting languages.
• You have experience with SaaS tools like Datadog and/or time series databases.