Department: Engineering
Reports to: Senior Manager, Engineering
Location: New Westminster
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
ARC’One, our manufacturing facility, located in New Westminster, accounts for approximately 10% of our global production and employs over 600 people.
Our proximity to the Design Center and the hands-on craftsmanship mindset make us an unique and exciting place to work. ARC’One is our laboratory. We experiment, we test, and we produce our new products all under the hustling and bustling production environment. This is where products physically come to life.
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you plan, design, control, and improve manufacturing processes, materials, and workspace layouts to ensure timely, efficient, accurate, and cost-effective production with superb quality.
Meet Your Future Team:
Under the supervision of Senior Manager, Engineering, you’ll partner with a team of Manufacturing Engineers as well as Technical Developers. You will also collaborate extensively and cross-functionally with the Quality and Production team.
If you were our Manufacturing Engineer now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Lead manufacturing engineering initiatives that align with the company’s Factory of the Future strategy, focusing on productivity, scalability.
Design workstation, attachments, establish best layouts, best methods and execute plans into bulk production
Identify possible automations / new templates in current sewing operations and develop possible automated solutions to improve their current performance in quality and productivity
Work with machine suppliers, Integrators on trialing new methods and automations to improve quality and productivity of current manufacturing process.
Identify future machinery/ operator requirements based on the production plan and forward information to relevant Managers/ departments in order to ensure adequate availability of resources to fulfil production requirements.
Monitor and analyse current methods in production by carrying out time study methods such as activity sampling/ motion time analysis on identified operators, employing the best methods in order to continuously enhance productivity levels whilst ensuring the optimum utility of available resources
Study new products for feasibility and influence its development by applying Design for Manufacturing (DFM) methodology including establishing optimal manufacturing methods, creating templates , tooling and fixtures and partnering with our in-house machine shop, to ease manual operations
Collaborate with Production Management to sustain and improve production KPIs through the execution of Continuous Improvement initiatives and process redesign implementations
Design and execute experiments to Root Cause Analysis (RCA),Engineering change request (ECR), systemic production challenges and implement solutions to achieve performance metrics and partner with Quality Engineers to deep dive into opportunities to improve finished goods quality through process design
Are you our next Manufacturing Engineer?
You have a bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
You have 1+ years of experience working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with an emphasis on industrial engineering, NPI, manufacturing process design, and tooling and fixture design.
You have 1+ years of experience working in an apparel or outdoor equipment manufacturing facility with sound knowledge of garment or equipment construction
You have experience collaborating in a highly cross-functional role and leading teams through execution.
You master continuous improvement and are recognized for facilitating change. You have previous experience in 6S, LEAN manufacturing, machine automation and project management.
You are an effective communicator and have the ability to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
You can embrace the ambiguity. You are flexible and you know how to initiating action. You have strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
Building relationship is your other strength. You can balance autonomy and collaboration with strong interpersonal skills with ability to deal with difficult situation with tact and professionalism
Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.
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