Manufacturing Engineer

Develops, implements, and improves manufacturing processes, methods, tooling, and documentation to support safe, efficient, repeatable production that meets engineering, quality, cost, and delivery requirements.

• Develops, implements, documents, and improves manufacturing processes to produce conforming product safely and efficiently.
• Reviews drawings, specifications, bills of material, customer requirements, and manufacturing data to establish methods, sequences, tooling, and process controls.
• Creates and maintains manufacturing routings, work instructions, process sheets, standard work, and other production documentation.
• Designs, specifies, or supports tooling, fixtures, work holding, gages, and other manufacturing aids required for production.
• Provides hands-on engineering support to resolve production process, tooling, equipment, quality, and manufacturability issues.
• Supports new product introduction, first article activities, prototype builds, and transition of new or revised products into production.
• Works with Quality and Engineering to investigate nonconforming product, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Performs time studies, capacity analysis, process capability reviews, and cost-reduction activities to improve productivity and quality.
• Evaluates manufacturing equipment, tooling, automation, and capital-improvement opportunities and assists with implementation.
• Leads or supports continuous improvement activities including waste, setup, scrap, and rework reduction and standardized work.
• Ensures manufacturing processes and documentation comply with company procedures, customer requirements, safety, and quality-system controls.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing engineering, process planning, production methods, tooling, fixtures, and process improvement.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, GD&T, specifications, bills of material, and customer requirements.
• Experience developing manufacturing routings, work instructions, process documentation, standard work, and production methods.
• Knowledge of machining, fabrication, assembly, inspection, tooling, and work holding in precision manufacturing.
• Familiarity with AS9100, AS9102 first article requirements, configuration control, nonconformance, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
• Experience with CAD and/or CAM systems and ability to create or review basic tooling, fixture, and process concepts preferred.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, process capability, statistical process control, and continuous improvement methods preferred.
• Ability to analyze manufacturing problems, evaluate data, identify root causes, and implement practical corrective actions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities while coordinating with Production, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to prepare technical documentation, reports, and production instructions.
• Experience with ERP/MRP, production planning data, manufacturing costs, and engineering change or document-control systems preferred.

• Bachelor degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related technical field.
• Three to five years related manufacturing engineering experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Technical aptitude to understand manufacturing equipment, processes, tooling, inspection methods, engineering drawings, and process controls.