Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group located in East Aurora, NY. The primary responsibility is to support the development of new product/development processes and apply new manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs. This role involves performing challenging and non-routine manufacturing engineering work and driving results through the application of standard engineering techniques and procedures.

Additionally, the Senior Manufacturing Engineer will provide support to other aircraft facilities worldwide as required.

Responsibilities include evaluating and developing new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering, coordinating design for manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups, determining manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, preparing tooling and gauge lists, creating and proving out N/C programs, writing detailed operations sheets and work instructions for producing complex machined parts and sub-assemblies, supporting and improving mature programs through CAD/CAM, custom macros, and manual coding, preparing, monitoring, and updating engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios, and economic run quantities for each components processes, providing cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts, collaborating with various disciplines including engineers, technicians, operations, quality personnel, and external suppliers to solve process-related problems, supporting production automated manufacturing cells to achieve process stability and reduced attended labor, and some international and/or domestic travel as required.

Basic qualifications include minimum 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience with increasing responsibility, Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or Technology preferred), CAD/CAM CNC programming experience required (NX preferred), strong CNC Milling machine processing, tooling, and programming (4 and 5 axis machining) experience required, and access to US export-controlled information.

Preferred qualifications include progressive thinker and self-starter to advance current methodologies and technologies, lean mindset and leadership skills to drive change towards a Lean factory and Standardized Work, strong tooling and/or fixture design experience, experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems, and program management training and experience.