Manufacturing Engineer - Plastics

401K, bonus potential and profit sharing!

Accelerate your career in a stable, non-automotive environment backed by a $3.5M automation upgrade, 80% hands‑on floor time, true work‑life balance, and zero corporate red tape.

Advanced Automation Environment: Drive innovation following a $3.5M upgrade in new molding equipment and automated systems.

No On‑Call Burnout: Protect your personal time with a steady 45‑hour average week and virtually no weekend shifts.

80% Floor Time: Maximize your engineering impact where it matters most, spending the majority of your time on hands‑on technical problem‑solving.

Non‑Automotive Stability: Benefit from a predictable product line and a highly tenured team outside the volatile automotive sector.

Independent Company, Big Impact: Enjoy the backing of a privately held firm focused on long‑term funding and employee career growth.

Direct Access to the President: Collaborating daily with an on‑site President means your ideas are heard and projects are fast‑trapped without corporate red tape.

Privately held organization is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee support production and have diverse engineering responsibilities in a fast‑paced injection molding facility. Daily, you will report to the President and will have the following responsibilities:

• Support production lines while increasing efficiencies and decreasing scrap
• Complete projects related to root cause analysis and troubleshooting downtime
• Utilize 2D and 3D modeling to improve line layouts and design fixtures and gauges
• Assist with new product activities, documentation and project management
• Troubleshoot mechanical and basic electrical issues
• Communicate with operations and production associates to improve KPIs and production initiatives
• Work to improve current engineering designs
• Assist with creating work instructions and other manufacturing documentation
• Complete tooling troubleshooting and work with external tool shops
• Initiate cost justification on new projects and equipment
• If not immediately, in the future overseeing capital equipment projects, including monitoring timelines and budgets
• Other duties directed by engineering management

The company offers bonus potential, profit sharing, 401K, medical benefits, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid holidays, vacation, and life insurance.

• A minimum of an associate's degree, a bachelor's degree in a technical field, ideally Mechanical Engineering, is highly preferred
• At least 2‑5 years of similar manufacturing and/or process engineering experience
• Experience working in plastic or rubber injection, blow or compression molding
• Strong continuous improvement background
• Project management of timelines
• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Experience improving part designs
• 2D/3D modeling experience
• Microsoft Office, including Excel
• Skills preferred but NOT required: PLCs and automation, Tooling design review, Budget management
• Candidates are highly preferred to be local to the Akron, OH area. A relocation package is available for those meeting all of the required skills.