Senior Manufacturing Specialist

Company Description

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger - a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are focused on providing a challenging and enriching career path with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are an innovative, global company with wide-ranging opportunities that include career-enhancing talent rotations. Our structured career paths will ensure that you know what it takes to build your ideal career at Weatherford when you join our Company. We also offer a comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance coverage, income protection plans, a 401(k) savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Job Description

Weatherford is hiring an Senior Manufacturing Specialist for our Wallingford facility. This is a hands-on, rewarding role for the oil and gas industry. The Senior Manufacturing Specialist will be working within a supportive, inclusive team in a fast-paced, progressive environment. Weatherford provides training, excellent benefits and fantastic career progression.

Develop and facilitate the introduction of new cost-effective processes, equipment and methods. Coordinate the orderly transition and installation of new processes and/or methods in accordance with product specifications and quality standards. Evaluate production equipment capabilities, assembly methods and quality control.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Know and understand Weatherford's Enterprise Excellence Program and the Quality Policy and comply with all requirements of the Quality Systems Manual, Operating and Technical Procedures and Workplace Instructions
• Must understand and comply with all safety rules and company policies of Weatherford.
• May enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
• May direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators.
• Read and analyses charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports, in order to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
• Demonstrate equipment operations and work and safety procedures to new employees, or assign employees to experienced workers for training.
• Observe work, and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards.
• Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
• Set up part numbers and product structures in Windchill and assure they upload into JD Edwards correctly.
• Establish and maintain standard routings, work order files, standard costs for products and MRP reports and inventor orders.
• Work assignments carried out to the highest quality level.
• Travel to and oversee specific MFG requirements conducted at critical supplier locations
• Conduct In-person Inspection and witnessing of specialized 3rd party process steps to ensure compliance to specific engineering & quality specifications
• Where applicable, ensure Customer Inspection and Test Plans are communicated to suppliers and followed while product is at supplier locations as part of product Quality assurance requirement.
• Lead Critical supplier audits for identified vendors supplying specialized products
• Maintain and manage NCRs (internal and external) up to and including disposition for designated product families as directed by plant or quality management.
• Responsible to ensure work instructions reflect current manufacturing processes, working with engineering to make necessary revisions on missing or inaccurate steps, ECN's, etc.
• Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor within the physical constraints of the job.

Qualifications

• 8+ years related experience with Technical/College or 15 years of manufacturing/machining and training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers in production.
• Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel and Access) JD Edwards/Windchill a plus.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Preferred:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineer or Technology
• Supervisory experience.

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