**This position is onsite in Neodesha, Kansas**

This position will primarily be focused on lamination composites and lamination manufacturing areas by leading, planning, directing, and coordinating process/product improvement initiatives in safety, quality, and efficiency. Ensure boats meet lamination requirements and specifications. Composite laboratory testing to ensure quality of materials used in lamination.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities .

• Laboratory, lamination composites test to ensure materials meet specifications
• Uses experience and knowledge to identify customer problems and offer solutions
• Source parts as required, manage vendors issues as needed
• Lamination conformity audits to ensure product meets engineering requirements based on Engineering Standards (Engineering Documentation)
• Analyzes and makes recommendations of lamination material if needed
• Support new product integrations by coordinating prototypes running in production, ensure parts meets lamination specification/requirements. Redline prints if a change is required and keep prints up to date
• Create and provide Engineering Standards (Engineering Documentation)
• Lamination BOM accuracy, execute product audits of material usage
• Act as liaison between Production, Engineering and Naval architects to provide problem resolutions as needed
• Review existing product design, identify weaknesses, propose, implement, and monitor effectiveness of improvements
• Drafting product design ideas or concepts to reduce cost or improve efficiency (VA/VE)
• Support to Cobalt departments at all levels

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• Engineering college degree or marine associate composites degree
• 3 years of experience
• Relevant work experience (if possible)
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Trouble shooting skills and attention to details
• CAD Proficient (2D)
• MS Office proficient
• Analytical thinker
• Ability to project manage
• Ability to work in fast pace and high-volume manufacturing environment
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and assignments and deadlines
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic
• Ability to provide excellent customer service skills
• Communication to all level
• Self-driven

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Other Qualifications: Understanding quality standards, sense of urgency, customer focus, teamwork, available to work extra hours as needed.