Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Position Title:

Manufacturing Engineer Department:
Engineering

Location:

Lenexa, KS

About AGI

AGI is a global food-based infrastructure company publicly traded in Canada. With over 3,800 employees and over 30 global manufacturing brands, AGI is a leading provider of equipment and technology solutions for agricultural commodities including seed, fertilizer, grain and feed systems and an expanding platform for food processing facilities.

The Opportunity

The Manufacturing Engineer is part of the Product Design team and serves as a key connection point between design engineering and manufacturing. This role supports product design reviews, design-for-manufacturing feedback, manufacturing standards, documentation practices, and practical implementation of new or improved production methods. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who understands how products are designed, built, and sustained in a manufacturing environment, while also bringing curiosity around modern manufacturing technologies such as automation, connected equipment, data analysis, and AI-enabled productivity tools.

This position is primarily design-engineering aligned, with a strong manufacturing perspective. The engineer will help ensure product designs are practical to fabricate, assemble, inspect, document, and support in production. Responsibilities include reviewing designs for manufacturability, helping establish engineering and manufacturing guidelines, supporting process improvement, and translating shop-floor feedback into actionable design and documentation improvements. The role also supports selective use of smart manufacturing, digital tools, dashboards, automation, IoT, and AI where they improve quality, consistency, productivity, or engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design for Manufacturing & Assembly – Review product designs, drawings, models, and documentation to improve manufacturability, assembly efficiency, inspection readiness, serviceability, and production consistency.
• Engineering Standards & Guidelines – Help develop, maintain, and improve design standards, manufacturing guidelines, drawing practices, preferred methods, tolerance guidance, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Bridge Between Engineering & Manufacturing – Translate manufacturing feedback into practical design recommendations and help engineering teams understand shop-floor constraints, capabilities, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Manufacturing Process Engineering – Evaluate fabrication, welding, assembly, material flow, tooling, fixturing, and production methods to support safe, repeatable, and efficient manufacturing.
• CAD Modeling, Product Data & Documentation – Support 2D/3D design reviews, drawing updates, manufacturing documentation, bill of material inputs, and digital product data accuracy using CAD and related engineering tools.
• Production Support & Root Cause Problem Solving – Troubleshoot production issues, support structured problem solving, validate corrective actions, and implement practical engineering solutions that are sustainable in production.
• Lean, Flow & Continuous Improvement – Improve workflow, plant layout, material handling, standard work, visual management, and production readiness using lean principles and practical engineering judgment.
• Smart Manufacturing & Digital Tools – Identify appropriate opportunities to use data capture, dashboards, connected equipment, automation, digital work instructions, IoT, or AI-enabled tools to improve engineering and manufacturing outcomes.
• Technology Evaluation & Practical Pilots – Support evaluation of emerging manufacturing technologies and assist with small-scale pilots, business cases, and implementation plans where there is a clear operational need.
• Testing, Validation & Industrialization – Support prototype builds, process validation, first article activities, production trials, and transition of improved designs or processes into repeatable manufacturing execution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Work with Product Design, Manufacturing, Quality, IT/OT, Purchasing, Production, Sales, and vendors to align design intent, manufacturing capability, and…