Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for improving, supporting, and sustaining existing manufacturing operations across RANDYS Worldwide’s Riverside facilities. The position will provide direct engineering support to drivetrain assembly, kitting, suspension packaging and assembly, shock absorber manufacturing, welding, and related production departments.

This is a hands-on, manufacturing-floor-focused position. Its primary purpose is to improve how existing products are manufactured by developing tooling, fixtures, equipment, workstations, process controls, layouts, and standardized production methods.

The engineer will work directly with operators, supervisors, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations leadership to identify production constraints, solve manufacturing problems, improve ergonomics, reduce cycle time, increase throughput, improve labor utilization, and reduce scrap and rework.

This position does not own new-product development, product-line strategy, competitive product benchmarking, or the design of new suspension or drivetrain products. When a manufacturing issue requires a potential product-design change, this position will document the problem, develop supporting data, and coordinate the proposed change through the appropriate Product Engineering and change-control processes.

• Provide daily, hands-on engineering support to Riverside manufacturing operations, including drivetrain assembly, kitting, suspension packaging and assembly, shock absorber manufacturing, welding, and related production areas.
• Spend significant time on the manufacturing floor observing processes, working with operators and supervisors, troubleshooting problems, and verifying that improvements are effective.
• Design and implement tooling, fixtures, jigs, gauges, assembly aids, error-proofing devices, material-handling solutions, carts, and ergonomic workstations.
• Create detailed CAD models, drawings, specifications, bills of materials, and documentation for manufacturing tooling, fixtures, equipment, and workstation improvements.
• Evaluate existing production processes through time studies, operator observation, process mapping, data analysis, and direct measurement.
• Identify bottlenecks, excessive motion, waiting, material-flow issues, unbalanced work content, ergonomic risks, and other constraints that affect safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and cost.
• Develop and implement practical solutions that reduce cycle time, improve line balance, increase capacity, improve material flow, and eliminate non-value-added work.
• Establish and maintain accurate manufacturing cycle times, labor standards, staffing requirements, equipment-capacity assumptions, and production-rate expectations.
• Assist Operations and Planning in determining production capacity, staffing requirements, equipment needs, and the resources required to meet production demand.
• Develop and improve manufacturing layouts, workstation arrangements, point-of-use material presentation, product flow, and operator movement.
• Define the approved manufacturing process for existing products, including operation sequence, required tooling, critical process parameters, equipment settings, inspection points, and acceptance criteria.
• Validate existing manufacturing processes to confirm they are safe, repeatable, capable, appropriately documented, and able to consistently meet established quality and production requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Operations to create, validate, and maintain manufacturing SOPs, work instructions, visual work instructions, setup instructions, process specifications, inspection requirements, and standardized work.
• Ensure manufacturing documentation accurately reflects the approved production process and is practical for operators to understand and follow.
• Support the implementation and sustainment of standard work by training operators, supervisors, leads, and maintenance personnel on new tooling, equipment, and process requirements.
• Develop process controls and mistake-proofing solutions that prevent incorrect assembly, missing components, improper orientation, incorrect torque, labeling errors, packaging errors, and other recurring manufacturing defects.
• Support process improvements involving welding, machining, torque-controlled assembly, press operations, mechanical assembly, shock absorber assembly and testing, drivetrain assembly, kitting, labeling, and packaging.
• Lead or support structured root cause analysis for manufacturing problems,…