Manufacturing Engineer (Production Systems, Throughput, Automation)

Wild West Systems Inc.•Leander, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Wild West Systems is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to own production performance and drive improvements in throughput, yield, and efficiency. This role involves working daily on the shop floor to identify and solve production problems, redesigning processes, implementing practical automation, and ensuring processes are standardized, repeatable, and documented. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment and possess strong problem-solving skills with a mentality to iterate and build structure where none exists.

Requirements

5+ years of manufacturing or production engineering experience.
Experience improving throughput, yield, and process efficiency.
Background working in either aerospace manufacturing, defense production, automotive or relative scaling production environments.
Experience solving difficult production problems and implementing lasting solutions.
Manufacturing engineering fundamentals.
Process design and optimization in both assembly & machining.
Fixturing and tooling design (CAD required – SolidWorks, Onshape, etc.).
Experience with CNC and manual machining environments.
Understanding of production flow, cycle time, and bottleneck analysis.
Ability to implement practical automation.
Experience working with 3D printing in production environments.
Process documentation and standard work creation.
Experience utilizing root cause analysis & problem solving.
Comfortable in working in a shop environment with operators and machines.
Experience revamping unreliable processes into clean, repeatable systems.
Mentality to move fast and iterate on fly, not waiting for perfect conditions.
Experience balancing speed with discipline.
Ability to build and scale structure where none exist.
Comfortable challenging designs when manufacturing is hindered.
Day to day ownership of ecosystem. This is not a support function.
U.S. Citizen or National, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee.

Responsibilities

Own production performance across the shop floor.
Improve throughput and reduce cycle time.
Increase first pass yield and reduce rework.
Design and refine assembly and machining processes.
Develop and maintain work instructions, SOPs, and process documentation.
Design and build fixturing and tooling.
Support CNC and manual machining operations.
Integrate 3D printing into production workflows.
Train operators and technicians on new processes.
Hold production accountable to defined processes and standards.
Partner with design engineering to drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) improvements.
Work across production, engineering, quality, and automation to ensure alignment and execution.