Who Are We?     

American Augers, located in West Salem, Ohio is a division of The Toro Company. American Augers builds the largest horizontal directional drills in the industry, and a full range of auger boring machines. With the rugged user in mind, American Augers rigs are built to last and backed by 24-hour worldwide support. 

The Manufacturing/Industrial Engineer is reporting to the Manufacturing Technical Services Manager, responsible for determining methods, processes, and equipment required in the manufacturing of metal fabricated components. Responsible for developing, analyzing, and documenting cost information for existing and new product development, design and cost improvement, maintenance, make vs. buy, and managing product cost to target.

What Will You Do?  

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for:  

• Participate in engineering practices to aid in the development of annual and long-term business plans.  Designs, justifies, develops, and implements the engineering portions of the plans.

• Prepares IAR's (Investment Authorization Requests); coordinates the investigation, selection, installation, prove-out and training to successfully integrate projects into the unit.

• Reviews new parts in the concept stage.  Makes recommendations to standardize features, promote cost effective zero defect manufacturing, and improve functionality that support DFMA.

• Determine parts to be produced within the Value Stream.  Provides manufacturing input and coordination to design project teams to assure timely and effective new part introductions.

• Determine routings through work centers based on part requirements and work center capabilities.

• Prepares supporting documentation (cost estimate/tooling budgets) for new project development milestones and all other product redesign as assigned.

• Provides analyzed cost data to Engineering, Marketing, and Finance for use in determining project direction, product pricing, parts pricing, budgeting P&L’s, and internal rate of return investment calculations.

• Provides direct interface to Engineering on process capability, materials utilization, and design alternatives to optimize value.

• Analyze and provide solutions for problems which adversely affect quality, productivity, safety, flexibility, and cost.

• Develop, update, and maintain process documentation and costing data for manufacturing equipment.

• Review and evaluate the sourcing of parts pertaining to the production unit.  Recommend alternate sourcing when appropriate.  Provide direction for long term sourcing decisions.

• Provide support for key or specialized processes with functions such as tool design, tool layouts, CNC programming, set-up data/procedures and metallurgical analysis.

• Apply Total Quality, Project Management and LEAN principles in the daily performance of the job.

• Negligible travel required (<5%).

• All other tasks and projects as assigned.

What Do You Need?  

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements:  

• Engineer I-Bachelors of Science in Engineering

• 0-2years’ experience in various manufacturing disciplines, preferred

• Engineer II-Bachelors of Science in Engineering

• 2-4 years experience in various manufacturing disciplines, preferred

• Position is on first shift. Must have the ability to flex into other shifts as needed.

 Preferred:

• Strong experience in metal fabrication processes and technologies.

• Strong project management skills.

• Strong employee/customer relations skills.

• Strong technical skill or education.

• Strong computer skills – Microsoft Office/Teams/Windchill/Creo/SAP.

• Exemplary coaching ability.

What Can We Give You?    

 At American Augers we are always working to make sure our employees know just how valued they are. In addition to a competitive salary, an affordable and top tier medical/dental/vision plan, 401k, and many other great benefits – American Augers offers employees at our West Salem, OH location a variety of perks, including:  

Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, office-plant blended environment. 

Wellness - In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health, financial health, and other types of resources to every full-time employee. 

Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community. 

Growth Opportunities – TTC prides itself on giving our employees the chance to grow their careers. Tuition reimbursement, opportunities to move into new areas of interest, and promotion opportunities are a few examples.

Competitive Salary – The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the annual pay range is between ​$66900​ - ​$96300. Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. If you need to, you can access your pay early with the One@Work app, formerly the Even app. 

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  

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