Manufacturing Engineer Mock Interview
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Question 6 of 31
What is your experience leading cost reduction activities?
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Identifying and leading cost reduction activities will almost certainly be expected tasks for manufacturing engineers. It is important to demonstrate an understanding of cost reduction initiatives and show that implementing them requires an analytical approach. Explaining pertinent details of your experience will help illustrate these points. This is a good opportunity to sell your experience and show that you possess some business acumen.
"At my last company, I was tasked with leading all cost reduction initiates in the stamping department. In FY 19, we implemented over 2M worth of cost reductions, some of which were related to capital projects which I directly led. Others were low cost kaizens that I facilitated with the team. Our most successful project was a labor balancing activity that we completed as part of a kaizen event. This activity required almost no capital investment and saved approximately 500k/year in labor."
Daniel Neuhaus is a Tool Design Engineer with 10 years of CAD experience and 3 years in the manufacturing field. He is a University of Cincinnati Alumni with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology.
"Although I have not personally led cost-saving activities, I have provided significant support in laying the groundwork to do so. Specifically, in my experience, I would attend meetings with 3 manager heads at a time: the VP of operations, the head of engineering, and the head of manufacturing. They would assign me projects for cost-saving, then I would provide them with manufacturing techniques, fixtures, and documentation which would save significant time and minimize machine operations."
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