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CNC Programmer
OH - Fairborn
Opportunity Snapshot
For the high level CNC Programmer with expertise in Swiss machining centers and who can effectively develop processes in a 100% custom job shop environment, here is your opportunity to showcase your unique skills. In this role, you will interact with customers, provide valuable design input and drive efficiencies at a leader in high-precision orthopedic product manufacturing.
DEW Technologies, a TriMas company, has earned a valued reputation for precision and reliability and is now is the supplier of choice for several orthopedic companies. Since our inception in 1996, we've grown from a few machines to a multi-million dollar company with a number of state-of-the-art CNC machining centers housed in a 34,000 sq. ft. facility that boasts one of the most advanced computerized anodizing systems in the country. In spite of a recessionary economy, we plan on continuing this upward trajectory and are poised for about 30% growth over the next 3-5 years.
As CNC Programmer, you'll be dedicated to our Swiss machining centers and your twofold mission is to: (1) interact with customers to finalize design specifications, incorporating design for manufacturability to optimize part processing for speed, quality, and cost as well as creating competitive advantage for DewTec; and (2) provide the most efficient programming for material removal and product quality on a variety of CNC equipment (primarily Swiss machining centers). You'll take ownership of the entire product life cycle from concept to production as you galvanize the operators and shop floor team by influence, energize and inspire the team to meet their production targets and drive to completion.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 3-5 years of experience in collaborative design and CNC programming (ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Swiss machining centers (preferably STAR machines) including:
- Ability to program in seven or eight axes.
- Knowledge of complex geometries.
- Experience with high-volume production, thread whirling and quick change tooling.
- Familiarity with mono-axial and poly-axial bone screws.
- Familiarity with OSHA and safety regulations and procedures.
- Knowledge of SolidWorks, PartMaker, or related CAD/CAM software.
- Outstanding project management, time management and multitasking skills.
- Strong communication skills to interface with diverse stakeholders.
- A passion for improving processes and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
- Ability to travel (up to 10%) to nationwide destinations
Preferred, but not required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience with medical device manufacturing or other manufacturing under FDA QSR and/or ISO 13485 control.
- Experience with variable or macro programming.
What's in It for You
- Influence & impact -- Engineering is the lifeblood of our business and by identifying and implementing improvements, you'll play an important role in taking our operations to the next level while "making your mark" on our growing organization.
- Career development -- as you help us grow and produce quality products, you'll pave the way for your own career growth and be ideally positioned to pursue a variety of career paths, including management opportunities, within our dynamic organization.
- Empowerment -- as long as you are achieving your goals, we'll entrust you with the freedom and flexibility to drive your own processes and achieve success; you'll have plenty of support when you need it and "elbow room" when you don't.
- Great environment -- we are committed to building a brand in the labor market that labels us as "the company where the best people work". We have fostered a results-driven, team-oriented environment that has the motivation and high level support to bring your innovative ideas to life.
- Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary, we offer a solid benefits package that includes all that you would expect plus a few extras such as profit sharing incentives and professional training and development.
More About Your Role
Reporting directly to the Director of Manufacturing, you will join an Engineering department of seven at our Fairborn office. Coming aboard, you'll aim to "hit the ground running" and quickly develop an understanding of our processes and environment so that you can begin making a real impact. During the first year, you'll focus on achieving the following goals:
- Utilize the full capability of Swiss machining centers to allow us to win new business.
- Drive improvements in part cycle time by 30%.
As you can imagine, this is a project driven role and at any given time you'll be working on 3-4 projects (with an average development cycle of two weeks), but deadlines are a constant consideration. At a high level, you'll be spending about 70% of your time programming; another 10% interfacing with customers and design collaboration; and the remaining 20% on the shop floor, dealing with day-to-day issues and staying on top of commitment dates. Specifically, your responsibilities are to:
- Provide customer design support and create a finished product design for the customer, incorporating design for manufacturability.
- Build customer relationships through visits to key account customers, as well as hosting key account customer visits that are focused on part design.
- Program CNC equipment, primarily Swiss machining centers (Unigraphics based).
- Partner with Sales to support account management--you'll communicate frequently with the relevant Account Manager(s) to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information regarding project status for customer communications.
- Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for the shop floor to enable production schedules and quality objectives to be met for the parts that you have designed/programmed.
- Provide input and support for continuous improvement projects that a) create gains in material or operating time efficiencies in machining operations and/or downstream operations, or b) improve product quality, or c) improve safety.
- Comply with relevant quality systems as you follow established requirements for change control, quality systems requirements, and other processes and procedures as may be established, and complete all assigned training.
- Perform other duties as specifically assigned by the Director of Manufacturing.
Keys to Success
Pivotal to your success in this role is your ability to develop an inside-out understanding of our environment, including the priorities and operations on the shop floor, our parts and supply level requirements, and the technology employed so that you can drive engineering excellence.
To aid your success, you'll call upon the following key qualities:
- Results orientation -- you'll demonstrate initiative and aim to achieve your goals with a great degree of independence while keeping the Director of Manufacturing in the loop.
- Interpersonal finesse -- you'll create momentum for your projects by engaging all the key contributors and keeping them on-task with their deliverables; you'll communicate & coordinate effectively with both technical and non-technical people.
- Flexibility -- ours is a high-mix, low-volume production environment and you'll be able to manage the unpredictable nature of demands as you effectively "roll with the punches" and showcase your resourcefulness and multitasking abilities as you stay fluid with our ever changing needs and priorities.
- An eye to the future -- we also encourage you to leverage your experience and recommend your own ideas for improvement; your original ideas, forward vision, and quick action -- the same ambitions that have driven this company's success from the beginning -- are always valued.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!
Who We Are
Headquartered in Fairborn, Ohio, DEWTEC's mission is to integrate visionary management with highly skilled employees, innovative engineering, creative tooling, and precisely controlled processes to produce uncompromized quality parts in modern, climate-controlled facilities. With both ISO 9001 and 13485 certifications, our quality management systems set the standard in the orthopedic product manufacturing industry.
DEWTEC's services include engineering for enhanced manufacturability and fixture design. The company also specializes in precision manufacturing, passivating, stress relief, heat-treating, Type II and color anodizing, glass-bead blast, laser etching, cleaning, and packaging. For more information, please visit www.dewtec.com.
Our parent company, TriMas Corporation, has over 5,000 employees in 80 facilities and is comprised of five groups of high-end, specialty-niche companies that manufacture a variety of products across a wide spectrum of markets and industries around the world. For more information, please visit www.trimascorp.com.
Opportunity Snapshot
For the high level CNC Programmer with expertise in Swiss machining centers and who can effectively develop processes in a 100% custom job shop environment, here is your opportunity to showcase your unique skills. In this role, you will interact with customers, provide valuable design input and drive efficiencies at a leader in high-precision orthopedic product manufacturing.
DEW Technologies, a TriMas company, has earned a valued reputation for precision and reliability and is now is the supplier of choice for several orthopedic companies. Since our inception in 1996, we've grown from a few machines to a multi-million dollar company with a number of state-of-the-art CNC machining centers housed in a 34,000 sq. ft. facility that boasts one of the most advanced computerized anodizing systems in the country. In spite of a recessionary economy, we plan on continuing this upward trajectory and are poised for about 30% growth over the next 3-5 years.
As CNC Programmer, you'll be dedicated to our Swiss machining centers and your twofold mission is to: (1) interact with customers to finalize design specifications, incorporating design for manufacturability to optimize part processing for speed, quality, and cost as well as creating competitive advantage for DewTec; and (2) provide the most efficient programming for material removal and product quality on a variety of CNC equipment (primarily Swiss machining centers). You'll take ownership of the entire product life cycle from concept to production as you galvanize the operators and shop floor team by influence, energize and inspire the team to meet their production targets and drive to completion.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 3-5 years of experience in collaborative design and CNC programming (ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Swiss machining centers (preferably STAR machines) including:
- Ability to program in seven or eight axes.
- Knowledge of complex geometries.
- Experience with high-volume production, thread whirling and quick change tooling.
- Familiarity with mono-axial and poly-axial bone screws.
- Familiarity with OSHA and safety regulations and procedures.
- Knowledge of SolidWorks, PartMaker, or related CAD/CAM software.
- Outstanding project management, time management and multitasking skills.
- Strong communication skills to interface with diverse stakeholders.
- A passion for improving processes and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
- Ability to travel (up to 10%) to nationwide destinations
Preferred, but not required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience with medical device manufacturing or other manufacturing under FDA QSR and/or ISO 13485 control.
- Experience with variable or macro programming.
What's in It for You
- Influence & impact -- Engineering is the lifeblood of our business and by identifying and implementing improvements, you'll play an important role in taking our operations to the next level while "making your mark" on our growing organization.
- Career development -- as you help us grow and produce quality products, you'll pave the way for your own career growth and be ideally positioned to pursue a variety of career paths, including management opportunities, within our dynamic organization.
- Empowerment -- as long as you are achieving your goals, we'll entrust you with the freedom and flexibility to drive your own processes and achieve success; you'll have plenty of support when you need it and "elbow room" when you don't.
- Great environment -- we are committed to building a brand in the labor market that labels us as "the company where the best people work". We have fostered a results-driven, team-oriented environment that has the motivation and high level support to bring your innovative ideas to life.
- Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary, we offer a solid benefits package that includes all that you would expect plus a few extras such as profit sharing incentives and professional training and development.
More About Your Role
Reporting directly to the Director of Manufacturing, you will join an Engineering department of seven at our Fairborn office. Coming aboard, you'll aim to "hit the ground running" and quickly develop an understanding of our processes and environment so that you can begin making a real impact. During the first year, you'll focus on achieving the following goals:
- Utilize the full capability of Swiss machining centers to allow us to win new business.
- Drive improvements in part cycle time by 30%.
As you can imagine, this is a project driven role and at any given time you'll be working on 3-4 projects (with an average development cycle of two weeks), but deadlines are a constant consideration. At a high level, you'll be spending about 70% of your time programming; another 10% interfacing with customers and design collaboration; and the remaining 20% on the shop floor, dealing with day-to-day issues and staying on top of commitment dates. Specifically, your responsibilities are to:
- Provide customer design support and create a finished product design for the customer, incorporating design for manufacturability.
- Build customer relationships through visits to key account customers, as well as hosting key account customer visits that are focused on part design.
- Program CNC equipment, primarily Swiss machining centers (Unigraphics based).
- Partner with Sales to support account management--you'll communicate frequently with the relevant Account Manager(s) to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information regarding project status for customer communications.
- Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for the shop floor to enable production schedules and quality objectives to be met for the parts that you have designed/programmed.
- Provide input and support for continuous improvement projects that a) create gains in material or operating time efficiencies in machining operations and/or downstream operations, or b) improve product quality, or c) improve safety.
- Comply with relevant quality systems as you follow established requirements for change control, quality systems requirements, and other processes and procedures as may be established, and complete all assigned training.
- Perform other duties as specifically assigned by the Director of Manufacturing.
Keys to Success
Pivotal to your success in this role is your ability to develop an inside-out understanding of our environment, including the priorities and operations on the shop floor, our parts and supply level requirements, and the technology employed so that you can drive engineering excellence.
To aid your success, you'll call upon the following key qualities:
- Results orientation -- you'll demonstrate initiative and aim to achieve your goals with a great degree of independence while keeping the Director of Manufacturing in the loop.
- Interpersonal finesse -- you'll create momentum for your projects by engaging all the key contributors and keeping them on-task with their deliverables; you'll communicate & coordinate effectively with both technical and non-technical people.
- Flexibility -- ours is a high-mix, low-volume production environment and you'll be able to manage the unpredictable nature of demands as you effectively "roll with the punches" and showcase your resourcefulness and multitasking abilities as you stay fluid with our ever changing needs and priorities.
- An eye to the future -- we also encourage you to leverage your experience and recommend your own ideas for improvement; your original ideas, forward vision, and quick action -- the same ambitions that have driven this company's success from the beginning -- are always valued.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!
Who We Are
Headquartered in Fairborn, Ohio, DEWTEC's mission is to integrate visionary management with highly skilled employees, innovative engineering, creative tooling, and precisely controlled processes to produce uncompromized quality parts in modern, climate-controlled facilities. With both ISO 9001 and 13485 certifications, our quality management systems set the standard in the orthopedic product manufacturing industry.
DEWTEC's services include engineering for enhanced manufacturability and fixture design. The company also specializes in precision manufacturing, passivating, stress relief, heat-treating, Type II and color anodizing, glass-bead blast, laser etching, cleaning, and packaging. For more information, please visit www.dewtec.com.
Our parent company, TriMas Corporation, has over 5,000 employees in 80 facilities and is comprised of five groups of high-end, specialty-niche companies that manufacture a variety of products across a wide spectrum of markets and industries around the world. For more information, please visit www.trimascorp.com.
