Manufacturing Engineer

Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Engineer

A typical day in the life of a Fluke Norwich Manufacturing Engineer (ME) always starts with a Daily Management Team meeting to discuss what happened yesterday and what’s planned for today. Who needs help in what area and what the team needs to do today to be successful.

Success revolves around supporting Production with day-to-day issues to maintain continuous production. Monitored through an automated Line Down system they include machine breakdowns, component evaluations to combat obsolescence and performance enhancements, and then improvement projects to Roll Through Yield (RTY).

RTY is the ME's primary KPI and is reported out to Senior Leadership at the end of each month along with countermeasures accompanying the monthly report out generated by the assigned ME product owner to address the gap to target.

ME projects to improve RTY and Productivity whilst reducing waste run in parallel, ranging from simple ...