Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

The Manufacturing Engineer is a shop-floor–first engineering role focused on executing safe, capable, and compliant manufacturing processes for ASME pressure vessels and engineered products. This role supports a high-mix, welded tank fabrication environment with a focus on supporting daily production, resolving constraints, improving safety, quality, delivery, and cost, and leading capital and continuous improvement projects from concept through execution. This role serves as a key liaison between Product Development and Operations, ensuring new product designs are feasible, cost-effective, and scalable within current and future manufacturing capacity.

The role collaborates cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance, and reports to the Plant Engineering Manager. Compensation range will vary depending on level of experience. $85,000-$139,000

• Maintain daily shop floor presence supporting ASME production lines; actively engage with supervisors, leads, and operators to resolve real‑time technical issues.
• Troubleshoot process, tooling, equipment, and quality issues at the cell level; lead root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production problems affecting safety, quality, or throughput.
• Ensure manufacturing processes comply with applicable ASME Section VIII / IX, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality to support:
• Weld procedures (WPS/PQR/WPQR)
• Product tolerance control
• Hydro, pneumatic, and functional testing requirements
• Collaborate with Product Engineering during ECO processes to ensure designs are manufacturable, scalable, and cost‑effective.
• Drive continuous improvement in:
• Safety performance
• First‑pass yield
• Scrap and rework reduction
• Labor and cycle time
• Specify, justify, and support implementation of manufacturing equipment, fixtures, tooling, and automation.
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), run‑offs, and equipment commissioning.
• Work closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment capability, uptime, and safe operation.
• Partner with Operations and Quality to support certification, qualification, and skills development (e.g., welding, testing, specialty processes).

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, or Welding Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 3–7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, preferably in:
• ASME pressure vessels
• Fabricated or welded products
• Engineered‑to‑order environments
• Strong knowledge of shop floor manufacturing operations, welding, forming, assembly and/or pressure testing processes.
• Structured problem solving, clear communication, collaborative leadership, and the ability to influence cross‑functional teams.
• Experience supporting audits, inspections, or regulatory compliance.
• Background in Lean manufacturing and structured problem solving.
• Demonstrated success working cross‑functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, and Engineering.