Engineering Checker
Kress is looking for a full time Engineer with checker responsibilities to assure the design team’s drawings and designs adhere to Kress standard design, drafting, and manufacturing practices.
- Responsibilities:Review electronic drawing files and design 3D models for compliance with Kress guidelines and practices
- Review designs for manufacturability
- Review designs to assure utilization of existing parts where possible
- Review ECN notices to ensure correctness of documented drawing changes, priority, and any necessary disposition or rework of parts or assemblies
- Coordinate with industrial engineering on design changes to improve manufacturability and design of fixtures or other necessary methods to hold dimensions critical to functionality
- Coordinate with manufacturing or outside vendors on issues that may require design changes or drawing clarification
- Provide suggestions for potential rework of dispositioned parts that cannot be used as-is
- Consult with manufacturing or vendors on actions required to address identified non-conformance of parts in-process of manufacture
- Job Duties:Prioritize and manage the drawing packages to check based on Engineering Release date requirements or ECN priority and effect on in-process jobs in manufacturing
- Consult with Engineering personnel for drawing corrections
- Consult with Engineering personnel for suggested design changes relative to decrease in cost, material changes, manufacturability, etc.
- Participate in development and maintenance of the engineering design drafting standards
- Participate in design reviews as requested
- Perform drafting and design functions as checking workload permits
- Occasional travel to liaise with Customers and Suppliers as required
- Review identified non-conforming vendor or Kress manufactured parts and provide disposition for use of the parts
- Participate in failure analysis of returned customer failed parts or assemblies and determining required actions for any design improvements
- Participate in review of components of customer assemblies to be rebuilt at Kress and help determine what components can be used as-is, reworked, or replaced