**Job Summary: **
American Art Clay Company (AMACO) was founded in 1919 by Ted O. Philpott. AMACO is known for being the first to commercially manufacture ceramic and non-ceramic clays, lead-free glazes, electric kilns, and potter’s wheels. AMACO is a founding member of the Arts and Creative Materials Institute, which established safety standards for children’s art materials in 1936. AMACO continues to manufacture ceramic supplies with the highest quality and safety standards.
AMACO is a fourth-generation, 100-year, family-owned and operated company with a strong belief that art and creating art fosters well-being for the individual while enriching society. Making art facilitates tactile learning, encourages self-expression, develops craft skills, and cultivates creativity. AMACO promotes a continuous improvement and change culture and a working environment that embraces innovation at all levels, from the factory floor to the executive offices. Everyone is empowered to improve their role and collaborative processes and to participate in the common goals of safety, quality, customer care, teamwork, respect, and learning and development. We are looking for an “Engineer / Safety” who will be a part of the continuous improvement of AMACO.
** Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities. **
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Responsibilities:
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure that the product meets customer needs, aligns with the company’s goals, and complies with safety and regulatory standards.
Use creativity, technical skills, and knowledge to resolve complex problems and create products that meet and exceed customer expectations.
Transform ideas into tangible, market-ready products.
Analyze existing products to identify areas for improvement and update the current
Conduct various tests and experiments to ensure product performance, reliability, and safety.
Iterate and refine the designs to optimize product performance, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness. Using computer-aided design (CAD) software and other tools, create detailed engineering drawings and specifications.
Sampling of different materials, manufacturing processes, design tolerances, and other factors to find the best ones that suit the new product brief.
Provide technical guidance and specifications to suppliers and manufacturers to ensure the procurement of high-quality, suitable parts that meet design requirements.
Collaborate with manufacturing teams to address design-related issues, optimize production efficiency, and ensure smooth production ramp-up.
Create and maintain accurate documentation, including design files, specifications, and tests. Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and certification.
Gather customer feedback, analyze data, and propose design enhancements or modifications to enhance product functionality and competitiveness.
Create technical documents to assist others in step-by-step operation or troubleshooting of control and electrical systems.
Creates mechanical models and tolerance analyses to simulate mechanical design concepts.
Leads and supports multi-departmental initiatives to achieve design/project requirements.
Provides recommendations for key changes in our methods or processes to include presentations to individual work teams.
Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, and charts.
Assist in developing a Quality Control program for the developed products, meeting safety
guidelines by industry standards, policymakers, and company policies.
Skills:
**Work Environment: **
This job may require you to stand for an extended period, and lifting/heavy lifting is required. You must also be able to work in hot and cold environments.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Work is Monday through Friday, 40+ hours per week. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties are in demand.
Travel:
Some travel to local suppliers may be required.
Education and Experience:
EEO Statement:
AMACO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: AMACO is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at AMACO are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the location where we operate. AMACO will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
Other Duties:
** Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.**
You should be proficient in:
Machines & technologies you'll use:
Salary info:
$43.27 - $48.08 / hr