Manufacturing Engineer III

Viant•Orchard Park, NY

About The Position

At Viant, we partner and innovate with our customers to provide the highest quality, life enhancing medical devices in the world. As a Manufacturing Engineer III, you’ll own the processes that turn designs into high‑quality, on‑time products. You will develop products and processes to customer drawings and requirements; create drawings and work instructions; design tooling/fixtures; and support production with hands‑on troubleshooting on the floor, not just from a desk. You’ll interact weekly with customers (email/chat/meetings) and partner daily with Planning, Quality, and Production Supervisors in a fast‑paced environment where new orders often need to be production‑ready within one week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
2+ years of Manufacturing Engineering in a manufacturing environment (medical device, automotive, aerospace, or metal processing strongly preferred).
Experience in precision machining and/or metal processing (Must)
Experience with SolidWorks proficiency (design, modeling, drawings)
Ability to program CNC & Swiss machines (machining environment required)
Experience supporting NPI (New Product Introduction) including prototypes, design for manufacturability, and production readiness
Experience and knowledge with statistical systems as Minitab for statistical analysis
Experience Oracle
Experience with continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment, including:
Designing and testing equipment
Implementing process improvements
Writing technical specifications
Troubleshooting issues related to efficiency, scrap, and quality

Nice To Haves

Lead/create equipment validations (IQ/OQ/PQ as applicable); diagnose and solve equipment issues tied to efficiency, scrap, and quality.
Advanced Minitab (MSA, SPC) and DOE (screening/optimization/confirmation) capability.
Deeper experience with ISO 13485, GMP, OSHA, Lean, PFMEA, Oracle (or equivalent), RCA, NPI, PM, OPEX/CI, capital projects, ROI analysis, and direct customer collaboration across prototypes/design/issues/delivery.

Responsibilities

Adheres to Viant’s Values and all safety, environmental, security and quality requirements including, but not limited to: Quality Management Systems (QMS), Safety, Environmental and Security Management Systems, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, company policies and operating procedures, and other regulatory requirements.
Interacts with all levels of the organizations to ensure that all necessary procedures and processes are in place.
Plans, organizes, and manages related projects and staff as appropriate.
Functions as a fully competent engineer in all conventional aspects of subject matter or functional area of assignments.
Plans, schedules, conducts, or coordinates detailed phases of the engineering work in a part of a major project or total project of moderate scope.
Independently performs assignments, receiving instruction only regarding general expected results.
Devises new approaches to problems encountered.
Investigates, develops and implements new process technologies of moderate scope.
Performs other functions as required