Manufacturing Engineer - Machining

NOW HIRING: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER — MACHININGDepartment:
Manufacturing / Engineering

Reports To:

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Location:

On-site only | 531 Old Swede Road, Douglassville, PA 19518 (No remote work available)

Schedule:

Monday–Friday | Full-time Compensation:
Competitive compensation based on experience, technical depth, machining knowledge, industry background, and market data Build Your Career with ACECO

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer with strong machining expertise to develop, optimize, and support the manufacturing processes behind our custom crane and material handling equipment.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering and production. You'll work directly with the people who build our products — and with the engineers who design them — to make sure we're manufacturing efficiently, accurately, and on time.

We are looking for someone who understands what happens on the shop floor, can read a blueprint and see both the design intent and the manufacturing reality, and knows how to close the gap between the two.

The right person will spend time in the machine shop and on the production floor, not just behind a desk. You'll study our processes, identify what's working and what isn't, and drive real improvements — in cycle time, throughput, quality, and cost.

You won't get lost here. Your perspective will matter, your judgment will be relied upon, and your impact will be visible across the organization.

This is a hands-on manufacturing engineering role focused on machining processes within a custom, engineer-to-order manufacturing environment.

ACECO builds electric overhead cranes, hoists, and heavy material handling equipment. Every product is engineered to order. That means standard playbooks only get you so far — you need to understand the fundamentals deeply enough to apply them to custom work, every time.

The Manufacturing Engineer owns the development and optimization of machining and material preparation processes. You'll optimize routing, work cell layout, and material flow. You'll perform time studies, support make-versus-buy decisions, provide design-for-manufacturability input, and lead lean initiatives tailored to an engineer-to-order environment.

You'll also play a key role in supporting capital equipment projects, the transition to a new ERP system, and collaboration with Quality, Safety, and Supply Chain to keep manufacturing running at its best.

Success requires someone who can move comfortably between a conversation about machining tolerances on the shop floor and a design review with Engineering — and who can translate what they see in both settings into better processes, better decisions, and better outcomes.

• Think like a manufacturer — you see a drawing and immediately consider how it gets made, not just what it looks like
• Are comfortable spending real time on the shop floor, not just reviewing data from your desk
• Understand machining processes deeply enough to optimize them, not just document them
• Can read blueprints and fabrication drawings and spot both design intent and manufacturing risk
• Enjoy collaborating across departments — Engineering, Production, Quality, Purchasing, Safety
• See continuous improvement as a mindset, not just a project
• Are comfortable making make-versus-buy recommendations backed by real analysis
• Can perform time studies and translate the results into actionable process improvements
• Take ownership of outcomes rather than simply following instructions

• Prefer working exclusively at a desk or in a lab environment
• Have engineering experience only in high-volume, repetitive manufacturing — our work is…