Manufacturing Engineering Technologists

Ensure adherence to safety rules and practices.

Monitor manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.

Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.

Identify opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.

Plan, estimate, or schedule production work.

Evaluate manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.

Identify or implement new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.

Develop or maintain programs associated with automated production equipment.

Estimate manufacturing costs.

Prepare layouts, drawings, or sketches of machinery or equipment, such as shop tooling, scale layouts, or new equipment design, using drafting equipment or computer-aided design (CAD) software.

Select material quantities or processing methods needed to achieve efficient production.

Develop manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.

Verify weights, measurements, counts, or calculations and record results on batch records.

Oversee equipment start-up, characterization, qualification, or release.

Develop production, inventory, or quality assurance programs.

Create computer applications for manufacturing processes or operations, using computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) tools.

Train manufacturing technicians on topics such as safety, health, fire prevention, or quality.

Analyze manufacturing supply chains to identify opportunities for increased efficiency in the acquisition of raw materials.

Monitor manufacturing operations to ensure adherence to environmental policies and practices.

Operate complex processing equipment.

Evaluate current or proposed manufacturing processes or practices for environmental sustainability, considering factors such as green house gas emissions, air pollution, water pollution, energy use, or waste creation.

Perform routine equipment maintenance.

Install manufacturing engineering equipment.

Coordinate equipment purchases, installations, or transfers.

Design plant layouts or production facilities.

Develop sustainable manufacturing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, minimize raw material use, replace toxic materials with non-toxic materials, replace non-renewable materials with renewable materials, or reduce waste.

Develop processes to recover, recycle, or reuse waste or scrap materials from manufacturing operations.

Train manufacturing technicians on environmental protection topics.

Design plant or production layouts that minimize environmental impacts.