Senior Applications Engineer

Senior Applications / Manufacturing Engineer

Precipart, located in Farmingdale, NY, is seeking a Senior Applications Engineer to provide technical leadership in converting complex product requirements into robust, repeatable, and scalable serial production methods. This product-focused role supports precision components and assemblies from RFQ, feasibility, and development through production launch, ERP methodization, inspection strategy, costing support, and process maturation. This is a heavily in/external customer facing role which requires upmost professionalism.

The role requires strong manufacturing judgment, urgency, technical rigor, and respectful cross‑functional collaboration. The Senior Applications Engineer partners with Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Global Sourcing, Finance/Costing, Program Management, Inspection, Metrology, and site teams to ensure products are manufacturable, measurable, costed accurately, launched on time, and matured into stable production. Precipart is growing and investing in advanced manufacturing capability, including state‑of‑the‑art machining centers, precision metrology equipment, automation, improved production systems, and expanded technical capability.

This role helps translate that capability into product‑specific methods, reliable execution, and improved customer outcomes across Precipart’s global manufacturing footprint.

• Develop, validate, and release manufacturing methods for serial production of precision machined components and assemblies.
• Translate customer drawings, BOMs, specifications, quality requirements, application intent, and development learnings into production routings, operation sequences, work instructions, tooling concepts, fixture strategies, inspection plans, and process controls.
• Determine the optimum machine center, work center, process path, and production strategy based on capability, capacity, tolerance requirements, geometry, material, volume, cost, lead time, and launch risk.
• Support the transition from prototype, development, or NPI methods into stable serial production methods that are capable, documented, repeatable, measurable, scalable, and released on time.
• Support Procurement and Global Sourcing in evaluating make‑versus‑buy options based on capability, capacity, quality risk, process maturity, customer requirements, cost, and delivery requirements.

• Provide technically grounded inputs for costing and quoting models, including setup time, cycle time, labor content, machine‑center selection, tooling requirements, tooling costs, fixturing strategy, fixturing costs, gaging needs, consumable tooling assumptions, outside processing, inspection burden, scrap assumptions, capacity assumptions, and expected process maturity curve.
• Create, enter, maintain, and validate production workflows, routings, operation sequences, work centers, labor assumptions, machine assumptions, setup times, run times, subcontract operations, inspection steps, and method instructions in ERP, including Infor LN.
• Ensure ERP routings and workflows accurately reflect the approved manufacturing method, production sequence, cost structure, capacity assumptions, inspection requirements, metrology requirements, planning logic, and cost‑driving assumptions.
• Validate quoted assumptions against actual production performance during launch and early serial production; update methods, routings, ERP workflows, and quoting logic where gaps are identified.
• Translate customer requirements, engineering specifications, drawing notes, GD&T, and product‑performance requirements into measurable production and inspection controls.
• Develop CTQ matrices or equivalent requirement‑control summaries that connect feature, specification, tolerance, GD&T requirement, measurement method, inspection frequency, inspection equipment, gage strategy, and required measurement‑system analysis.
• Define gage requirements, inspection strategies, and measurement‑system validation needs, including gage R&R, correlation studies, bias studies, repeatability/reproducibility…