Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer serves as the primary technical focal point for assigned projects, ensuring that all manufacturing processes, documentation, and deliverables meet customer procurement specifications and internal requirements. This role focuses on developing and validating robust manufacturing processes, improving product manufacturability, driving cost reduction, and supporting new product introduction in a fast-paced aerospace environment. The position offers the opportunity to work on both legacy and new programs, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and influence tooling, process design, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for assigned projects and ensure compliance with all customer and product procurement specifications.
• Validate that manufacturing processes meet all customer and internal requirements and adjust processes as needed to maintain compliance.
• Initiate and support product manufacturability efforts, ensuring that detail parts, sub-assemblies, and top assemblies can be produced efficiently and consistently.
• Review and support the release of planning documents, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with engineering requirements.
• Lead or support Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) activities to ensure quality is built into processes from the outset.
• Define and support tooling requirements for manufacturing and assembly processes, coordinating with tooling design as needed.
• Create clear, concise Visual Work Instructions (VWI) for detail parts, sub-assemblies, and top assemblies to guide production operations.
• Develop and maintain accurate work instructions and operation time standards, including the creation of Work Combination Sheets (WCS).
• Ensure manufacturability of detail parts, sub-assemblies, and top assemblies for assigned projects and programs, considering capabilities and constraints.
• Serve as a liaison to provide technical assistance between internal manufacturing and customer engineering teams when required.
• Support the development of supplier processes and assist in resolving supplier-related manufacturing issues.
• Assist in the initial manufacturing cycle of new detail parts, sub-assemblies, and assemblies for New Product Introduction (NPI) projects.
• Monitor and follow up on the effectiveness of manufacturing processes, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Identify, implement, and drive cost reduction ideas and participate in special cost reduction initiatives as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Work on or lead Production Support Teams and collaborate with team members to address and resolve manufacturing issues in a timely manner.
• Perform Root Cause and Preventive Action (RC/PA) activities to eliminate causes of nonconforming products and prevent recurrence.
• Perform, document, and validate processes for components, assemblies, and systems, including machining, forming, stamping, heat treating, and chemical processing.
• Work with a variety of materials such as titanium, Inconel, aluminum, stainless steel, and O1 and D2 tooling steels, ensuring appropriate process controls.
• Ensure that all engineering changes are thoroughly documented, communicated, and implemented within manufacturing processes and documentation.
• Coordinate and support the design of tooling as it applies to manufacturing and assembly processes, ensuring tools align with process requirements.
• Develop sound manufacturing processes that leverage the organization's existing capabilities and align with operational goals.
• Review production drawings for technical content, manufacturability, and clarity, and provide feedback as needed.
• Make recommendations and offer credible, practical solutions related to products, tooling, and manufacturing processes.
• Provide data and relevant technical input to support the quoting process, including estimates of process steps, timing, and resource needs.

• B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or another engineering discipline with at least 3 years of engineering experience, preferably in an aerospace environment, or M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or another engineering discipline with at least 2 years of engineering experience in an aerospace environment.
• Experience in manufacturing engineering with a focus on process development, validation, and improvement.
• Background in aerospace or similarly regulated, precision manufacturing environments.
• Experience working in fast-paced manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of sheet metal processes, including welding and forming.
• Familiarity with non-destructive testing (NDT) methods as applied to aerospace components and materials.
• Understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and its application to production drawings and processes.
• Knowledge of aerospace materials, including titanium, Inconel, aluminum, stainless steel, and tooling steels such as O1 and D2.
• Ability to develop and validate manufacturing processes such…