Manufacturing Engineer III

At Benchmark
, we are driven by our purpose: to innovate for a healthier, safer, and better-connected world to create a brighter future. When you join us, you become part of a team passionate about making a meaningful impact across various sectors, including commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next-generation communications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. We prioritize career growth, fostering a culture that ensures you reach your full potential.

At Benchmark, your work is purpose-driven, enabling you to create a positive impact on the world and make your career truly meaningful. You’ll be part of a collaborative and inclusive team that values your ideas and contributions.

Provides technical manufacturing liaison required for the production of high quality products from the design phase through all phases of production. Liaison between the Program Design, Procurement, Assembly, and Quality Departments to promote an efficient and well-organized manufacturing operation.

• Experience in taking full manufacturing responsibility, leading products through prototype, pilot and production builds for both PCBA and HLA manufacturing.
• Ability to oversee the implementation of customer documentation changes and internal change orders
• Drive internal and external corrective action plans
• Analyze line return information, internal and external, to understand and drive corrective action on manufacturing process issues
• Perform product level FMEAs as required
• Perform Design for Manufacturability and work with Test Engineering on Design for Testability
• Take full manufacturing responsibility, leading products through prototype, pilot and production builds
• Devise new techniques and approaches and provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems by drawing on his/her own areas of technical specialty and consulting with other engineering specialists for technologies where he/she does not have in-depth expertise
• Participate in design reviews and provide product evaluations to ensure the product design lends itself to practical and economical manufacturing techniques
• Assist in make/buy evaluations and make recommendations on “IN-HOUSE” VS. “OUTSIDE VENDOR” manufacturing capabilities
• Evaluate the requirements for assembly tooling, fixtures, and equipment required to support the manufacturing operations
• Participate in Material Review Board (MRB) activities and take an active role in the dispositioning of discrepant material and/or assemblies
• Ability to monitoring of day-to-day production activities and make recommendations on material and/or labor reductions to promote efficiency of operation
• Coordinate with the Methods and Tooling groups and provide the technical product or specification drawing interpretations required for the design and fabrication of assembly tools, fixtures, and process methods instructions
• Provide manufacturing assembly flow charts required to support the product flow and/or assembly sequence
• Provide manufacturing assembly floor and equipment layouts required to promote an efficient flow of product through the various assembly states
• (Nice to have)
• Ability to lead projects or segment of major projects responsible for achievement of schedule, fiscal and technical performance objectives
• Lead teams to measure, change, and implement system level improvements
• Industrial Engineering background
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• 3D printed tooling and fixture design/creation
• Attends design reviews and provides product evaluations to insure the product design lends itself to practical, economical manufacturing techniques.
• Assists in reviewing engineering design drawings prior to “Production Release” for product and compatibility with “state-of-the-art” manufacturing techniques.
• Assists in make/buy evaluations and makes recommendations on “IN-HOUSE” VS. “OUTSIDE VENDOR” manufacturing capabilities.
• Assists in vendor surveys.
• Evaluates the requirements for assembly tooling, fixtures, and equipment required to support the manufacturing operations.
• Participates in Material Review Board (MRB) activities and takes an active role in the dispositioning of discrepant…