Manufacturing Engineer

Come join our team at DIS-TRAN Steel!

Our people – not our machinery - are our biggest assets. DIS-TRAN Steel’s leadership team lives by our company values, modeling our culture of respect and integrity each day. We're a team that likes to have fun, but we also know how to get stuff done.

The Manufacturing Engineer for Dis-Tran Steel will be responsible for developing, implementing, and improving manufacturing processes to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure product quality. This role requires strong analytical skills, hands-on experience with manufacturing equipment, and a passion for continuous improvement

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Implementing Vision and Values:* Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of the associate decision making and action. Safety Orientation:* Is aware of conditions that affect employee safety, takes responsible action, and promotes safety throughout the organization. Customer Focus:* Proactively works to determine the needs of the internal / external customers and provide solutions; actively focuses on providing high quality service to internal / external customers while addressing the organization’s mission / vision / goals / policies; maintains clear communication regarding mutual expectation. Contributing to Team Success:* Works cooperatively with others; is agreeable and team oriented; demonstrates a willingness to put aside personal differences for the benefit of the group as a whole. Quality Orientation:* Is aware of quality issues and actively makes suggestions for improvement of product or processes; knows how personal contribution affects overall product and process quality; understands the company’s quality objectives and how they relate to the company’s objectives. Work Ethic:* Maintains and promotes social, ethical, and organizational norms in conducting internal and external business activities. Continuous and Applied Learning:* Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skills on the job and leaning through their application; comprehends new job related information in a timely manner and correctly recalls and applies that information. Productivity Orientation:* Takes appropriate actions to satisfy work quotas (e.g. production, assignments, projects, etc.)

COMPETENCIES:

Industry Practice Knowledge:* Having achieved a satisfactory level of specialized professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise. Attaining job-related certifications as required. Job and Functional Area Knowledge:* The ability to demonstrate expertise related to the company's products and services as well as to other crucial aspects of the business, having the ability to operate business equipment at the required speed, accuracy and within safety specifications and guidelines. Supporting a Service Environment:* Strives to collaboratively convey the service standards the organization wants to deliver not only to the external customer, but also as importantly to internal customers as well. Developing Trust: I*nteracts with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization. Demonstrates honesty; keeps commitments; behaves in a consistent manner; treats people with dignity, respect and fairness. Operational Decision Making:* Obtains information and identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving operational goals; commits to an action after developing alternative courses of action based on logical assumptions, factual information while taking resources, constraints and organizational values into consideration. Project Management:* Plans, sequences, monitors evaluates and communicates work progress to meet established goals within cost, schedule, and quality objectives; brings together and optimizing the resources that include the skills, talents and cooperative effort of a team of people. Listening:* Demonstrates attention to and conveys understanding of the comments or questions of others. Communication Skills, oral:* Speaks effectively one-to-one and in groups and makes effective presentations. Team Leadership Skills:* Takes the role as leader of a team or other group; recognizes responsibility to lead the group and become a leader; sees own success in terms of the success of their unit, group, or team; aims for goals as a group and striving to get others to commit to the groups goals. Accountability:* Demonstrates and communicates a high level of ownership and commitment to individually and collaboratively achieve results. Change Management:* Responds to change with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives; acts as a change agent by facilitating the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace. Coaching and Developing Others (Performance Feedback):* Evaluates employees, providing performance feedback, and facilitates professional growth; provides comments in the form of opinions about and reactions to something, intended to provide useful information for future decisions and development. Meeting Management:* Plans, conducts, and participates in meetings in which the collective resources of the group members are used efficiently. Motivating Others:* Creates an environment in which subordinates are rewarded for accomplishment of group an individual goals. Human Relations Skills:* Shows an awareness of and consideration for the opinions and feelings of others; develops and maintains smooth, cooperative working relationships with peers, subordinates, and superiors. Meeting and Project Participation:* Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to help reach goals while considering the needs and potential contributions of others. Negotiating:* Effectively explores alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties while maintaining positive working relationships. Respecting Differences:* Interacts favorably with people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds; recognizes and interacts favorably to individual diversity (e.g. generational characteristics, working styles, communication styles, digital savvy, perspectives in problem solving and decision making); actively supports and / or promotes Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Diversity Initiatives in the workplace. Informing:* Lets people know of decisions, changes, and others relevant information in a timely fashion. Communications, written:* Writes clearly and effectively using appropriate style, format, grammar, and tone in informal and formal communications. Ability to Learn and Apply Information:* Comprehends new job related information in a timely manner correctly recalls and applies that information; objectively evaluates mistakes and uses mistakes as learning opportunities to improve performance. Financial and Quantitative Analysis Skills:* Draws accurate conclusions from financial and numerical materials and applies financial principles and numerical techniques to problems. On the job Decision Making:* Uses effective approaches and analysis to draw conclusions, choose a course of action, and / or develop appropriate decisions. Innovation and Resourcefulness:* Develops original, unusual, successful approaches by readily drawing on a large pool of diverse sources of information; encourages the creativity of others; takes action with a clear business purpose in mind before others or the situation requires it. Managing Detail:* Is thorough in accomplishing a task with concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small; understands impact of details as they relate to key areas of business and operations, such as safety, quality, productivity, project management, information gathering, analysis and reporting, etc. Organizational Awareness:* Acquires and uses knowledge of systems, situations, pressures, and culture inside the organization to identify potential organizational problems and opportunities; perceives the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization. Problem Analysis / Analytical Thinking:* Uses broad in depth analysis of evidence to carefully evaluate a problem and the associated underlying issues that may be the cause and further analyze possible alternative solutions and potential outcome. Planning:* Uses an effective methodology to determine priorities, set goals, create a plan, take action, uses time, energy, resources, etc. in an effective way, and measure results. Personal Organization and Time Management:* Plans ahead, identifies priorities, and structures one’s own time effectively and efficiently to achieve goals and fulfill responsibilities. Resource Management:* Uses resources in an efficient and productive manner (financial, employee, technological, property, equipment, other company resources, etc.); demonstrates fiscal responsibility through cost containment initiatives. Personal Flexibility:* Is willing to change and adapt to situations that might not be encountered normally; readily revises schedules; is willing to cease one activity to begin another and accepts changes in work conditions without losing effectiveness; maintains self control and patience in stressful and crisis situations. Stress Management:* Maintains stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handles stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization. Initiative:* Demonstrates self motivation to make decisions and take action [within assigned boundaries] without having to be prompted or directed to do so. Self Development:* Knows own capabilities, seeks out feedback and responds positively to improve performance. Sharing of Expertise:* Means both the motivation to expand and use one’s knowledge, and the willingness to share this knowledge with others.

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Referral level: Professional

Eligible for Enhanced Referral

Eligible for External Referral

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