CNC Manufacturing Engineer

CNC Manufacturing Engineer

This position will initially focus on the technical estimating and process-planning responsibilities. As the successful candidate learns our customers, employees, equipment, and workflow, the position can grow into a broader operations-management role.

Job Duties:

• Read and thoroughly interpret complex engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, tolerances, and customer requirements.
• Review incoming RFQs and determine whether a part is a good fit for our equipment and capabilities.
• Evaluate the overall manufacturability of CNC-machined components.
• Develop a practical manufacturing strategy for each quoted part.
• Determine the machines, tooling, setups, operations, and outside services required to manufacture a part.
• Estimate setup time, machining time, programming time, inspection requirements, material needs, and outside-processing costs.
• Identify tight tolerances, difficult features, special specifications, and potential manufacturing risks before a quotation is submitted.
• Research unfamiliar materials, specifications, processes, coatings, heat treatments, and customer requirements.
• Communicate with customer engineers, purchasing representatives, suppliers, and outside processors when technical clarification is required.
• Work closely with our internal quoting team to prepare complete, competitive, and accurate quotations.
• Consult with machinists, programmers, inspectors, and company leadership when developing manufacturing plans.
• Help improve the consistency and accuracy of our estimating and process-planning methods.
• Support the transition of awarded work from quotation into programming, production, inspection, and delivery.

Required:

• US Citizen
• Blueprint Reading Is Critical - Advanced blueprint reading is an essential requirement for this position. The successful candidate must be able to evaluate a print, recognize critical requirements, understand how the part will be manufactured, and identify anything that could affect cost, quality, inspection, or delivery. Experience interpreting geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), material specifications, surface finishes, special processes, and inspection requirements is strongly preferred.
• Must understand CNC machining well enough to evaluate setups, operations, tooling requirements, machining difficulty, and realistic manufacturing times
• Ability to determine how a machined part should be manufactured.
• Ability to develop realistic setup, machining, and production-time estimates.
• Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Comfortable asking technical questions and communicating directly with engineers and customers.
• Organized and capable of managing multiple RFQs and priorities.
• Able to work collaboratively with machinists, programmers, inspectors, estimators, and management.
• Interested in learning the complete operation and growing into a position with broader responsibility.

Preferred:

• CNC programming experience is helpful but is not required
• Experience with CAMWorks, Mastercam, or similar CAM software would be beneficial

Salary: $100-$150K

Location:

West Springfield, MA

Duration:
Permanent