Advanced Manufacturing Engineer & Quoting Specialist
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Quality Engineering, Product Engineer
Acme Industries is a contract manufacturer serving Fortune 500 clients with high-quality precision components. We specialize in medium-volume, medium-mix production for aerospace, defense, power generation, mining, transportation, and other industries.
Benefits begin immediately:
Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, Flexible Spending, Life Insurance, and Short- and Long-Term Disability.
We are seeking a senior-level Advanced Manufacturing Engineer & Quotation Specialist to develop fast, accurate, and competitive quotations for complex precision-machined components while providing advanced manufacturing engineering leadership. This role is ideal for a highly experienced CNC machining professional with advanced CAM expertise and a strong background in aerospace/defense quoting.
The successful candidate will balance speed and technical accuracy, using engineered approximations, rapid CAM-based strategy modeling, machining history, and expert judgment to generate reliable cycle‑time and cost estimates under tight deadlines. Beyond hands‑on quoting, this role plays a key part in advancing systems, digital tools, templates, and technologies that improve quoting speed, accuracy, and consistency.
Job Duties:Advanced Manufacturing Engineering & CAM (for Estimating, Not Full Production)
- Use Top Solid (preferred), Esprit, or Mastercam to generate rapid conceptual toolpaths, machining strategies, or partial simulations to support accurate cycle‑time estimation.
- Develop high‑level machining plans including work holding concepts, operations sequencing, tool selections, and strategy templates for 3‑, 4‑, and 5‑axis machining.
- Apply expert machining judgment to make fast, reliable cycle‑time estimates without requiring fully detailed programming unless complexity demands it.
- Leverage digital libraries, previous machining data, and templated strategies to shorten quoting time.
- Provide DFM guidance, identify cost drivers, and collaborate with customers on manufacturability improvements.
- Review RFQs, engineering drawings, CAD models, and technical data packages from aerospace, defense, power generation, rail, mining, and related industries.
- Develop complete cost models covering labor, machining, programming, materials, tooling, quality, inspection, and outside processes (coatings, heat treat, paint, etc.).
- Produce competitive quotes that blend technical rigor with rapid turnaround, using a structured balance of machine simulation, templated estimates, and history‑based assumptions.
- Prepare formal quotation packages including pricing, lead times, technical notes, risk assessments, and deviations.
- Support customer bid reviews, cost justifications, and pre‑award discussions with engineering‑backed reasoning.
- Work closely with engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations to ensure feasibility and alignment with shop capabilities.
- Interpret and ensure compliance with AS9100, ITAR, DFARS, NADCAP, and customer‑specific requirements.
- Support long‑term and strategic pricing initiatives, including quantity breaks, blanket agreements, and recurring program cost models.
- Build and refine quotation templates, machining libraries, and digital estimation tools to improve speed and accuracy.
- Contribute to the development of AI/ML‑assisted quoting technology, machining‑feature recognition, and automated cycle‑time tools.
- Maintain quote history, performance metrics, win/loss analysis, and priors to continuously improve estimating accuracy.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years of CNC machining and manufacturing engineering experience in a high‑precision environment.
- Advanced CAM experience:
- Preferred:
Top Solid - Previous experience with SmartCAM
- Also accepted:
Esprit, Mastercam, NX, others
- Preferred:
- Proven track record of quoting machined components in aerospace/defense or a closely related industry.
- Ability to generate rapid, reliable cycle‑time estimates using expert machining knowledge, partial CAM, templates, and historical…
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