Member of Integration , Engineer

Ironstead Industrial Inc. acquires precision machine shops and manufacturing businesses in aerospace/defense, maritime, and commercial sectors, and rebuilds them into modern, data-driven operations. We don't run playbooks from a spreadsheet in another state. We parachute in, work shoulder to shoulder with machine operators, and rebuild the operating system of the business from the inside. IronsteadOS, our purpose-built operating platform syncing customer design to final inspection & logistics, is the backbone of that transformation, but the platform only works if someone on the ground earns the trust to implement it.

We're looking for a Member of Integration Staff (Engineer) who is comfortable being the first Ironstead presence on a shop floor within days of a deal closing. You will embed at newly acquired machine shops, pattern directly with operators, machinists, and shop supervisors, and drive the 9-month post-acquisition operating transformation, including OEE baselining, lean fundamentals, ERP/IronsteadOS integration, and capacity conversion, without disrupting the delivery commitments the shop already has to its customers.

This is not a corporate-office manufacturing engineering role. It requires the technical depth to walk a 5-axis mill-turn cell and spot the actual constraint, the humility to learn a shop's tribal knowledge before trying to change it, and the conviction to push through resistance once you know what needs to change. You'll work shop floor to executive suite in the same week, running a Gemba walk on Monday and presenting capex justification to the deal team on Friday.

• Serve as Ironstead's embedded technical process owner at a newly acquired machine shop during the critical first 9 months post-close, owning the relationship between shop-floor staff, plant leadership, and the Ironstead deal team

• Conduct hands‑on 4M (Man, Machine, Method, Material) manufacturing health assessments to baseline OEE, identify equipment capability gaps, and surface the real root causes behind quality escapes, schedule slips, and cost overruns

• Lead implementation of lean fundamentals (5S, Kanban, Heijunka, visual management) in a way that respects existing shop culture and builds buy-in from floor staff rather than imposing change from outside

• Drive integration of IronsteadOS (our purpose-built operating platform syncing customer design to final inspection & logistics) with existing ERP systems (JobBOSS, Made2
  
  Manage, M2M, or similar), working through data migration, workflow mapping, and operator training

• Own CAD/CAM programming reviews and DFM (design for manufacturability) improvements across CNC milling, turning, and multi-axis operations to reduce cycle time and scrap without compromising AS9100D/ITAR/NADCAP compliance where applicable

• Partner with metrology and quality teams to tighten inspection processes, including CMM programming, GD&T interpretation, and first article inspection, as part of broader capacity conversion efforts

• Build the capex case for new equipment or process changes, translating shop-floor constraints into revenue-multiple-justified investment recommendations for the deal team

• Identify and disposition related-party asset arrangements, equipment capability gaps, and other diligence-relevant findings that surface once inside the walls of a newly acquired shop

• Transfer knowledge back to the Ironstead platform team on what worked, what didn't, and what the next shop's playbook should look like

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, or related) required

• 2+ years of hands‑on experience in a machine shop, manufacturing, or production engineering environment

• Must be a U.S.…