Manufacturing Engineer

Kremin has recently joined Threadlock Precision and now operates as Kremin, a Threadlock Precision Company. We are a rapidly growing engineered component manufacturing organization serving leading aerospace and defense customers, including OEMs and Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. Backed by strong financial support and positioned for continued expansion, we are investing in our people, equipment, facilities, processes, and operating systems to support long‑term growth and increasing demand for complex, high‑precision manufactured components.

We are currently hiring a Manufacturing Engineer for our Kremin facility in Frankenmuth, Michigan
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Our products support the defense industrial base and help ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high‑quality equipment.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Manufacturing Engineer will provide hands‑on technical support to production while helping prepare the facility and its operations for continued growth.

This role serves as a practical problem‑solving resource for the manufacturing operation. You will work directly with machinists, production leaders, programmers, quality personnel, maintenance resources, suppliers, and operations leadership to investigate production and quality concerns, improve process performance, coordinate equipment and facility activities, and remove barriers affecting safety, quality, delivery, cost, and throughput.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working on the shop floor, gathering input from the people closest to the work, analyzing problems, and helping cross‑functional teams develop and implement sustainable solutions. This position requires both technical capability and the ability to bring people together, create clarity, establish ownership, and drive actions through completion.

• Provide hands‑on engineering support for milling, turning, and multi‑axis machining operations.
• Investigate production issues involving quality, throughput, cycle time, tooling, machine capability, and process stability.
• Partner with machinists, programmers, Quality, Maintenance, and production leadership to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and verify sustained results.
• Lead improvements that increase productivity, repeatability, equipment utilization, and production flow while reducing scrap, rework, downtime, and setup time.

• Develop and improve manufacturing processes for new and existing products, including routings, tooling, setups, machining methods, inspection requirements, and production readiness.
• Interpret drawings, models, GD&T, customer requirements, and process data to establish practical and reliable manufacturing methods.
• Support quality investigations, corrective actions, process controls, inspection methods, and compliance with AS9100 and customer requirements.

• Support equipment installations, machine moves, repairs, facility layouts, capacity expansion, and production‑area improvements.
• Help evaluate new machinery, tooling, and infrastructure based on capability, capacity, quality, safety, cost, and long‑term business needs.
• Coordinate equipment‑related activities and track actions through completion.

• Create and maintain practical work instructions, setup sheets, tooling lists, process documentation, layouts, and standard work.
• Train employees on process changes, equipment, tooling, setups, and manufacturing controls.
• Provide clear technical guidance and build strong working relationships across production, engineering, quality, maintenance, and operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or other engineering field within aerospace, defense, medical or other highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• At least three (3) years of manufacturing engineering experience within a machining or precision machining environment
• Experience with engineering drawings, blueprints, GD&T,…