Generic

• Adhere to all applicable regulations, policies, and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• Analyze, estimate, or report production costs.
• Assist engineers in developing, building, or testing prototypes or new products, processes, or procedures.
• Calibrate or adjust equipment to ensure quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.
• Conduct statistical studies to analyze or compare production costs for sustainable and nonsustainable designs.
• Coordinate equipment purchases, installations, or transfers.
• Create or interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, formulas, or blueprints for management or engineering staff.
• Design plant layouts or production facilities.
• Develop manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
• Develop or implement programs to address problems related to production, materials, safety, or quality.
• Develop production, inventory, or quality assurance programs.
• 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.
• Identify opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.
• Monitor and adjust production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.
• Oversee equipment start-up, characterization, qualification, or release.
• Oversee or inspect production processes.
• 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.
• Prepare production documents, such as standard operating procedures, manufacturing batch records, inventory reports, or productivity reports.
• Provide advice or training to other technicians.
• Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
• Select cleaning materials, tools, or equipment.
• Select material quantities or processing methods needed to achieve efficient production.
• Set up and operate production equipment in accordance with current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures.