Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer, 2nd Shift
About The Position
The Manufacturing Engineer provides direct, hands-on engineering support for second-shift manufacturing operations in Cincinnati, Ohio, supporting strategic programs essential to maintaining U.S. Armed Forces’ readiness. The role serves as the primary manufacturing engineering contact for shop-floor issues and works closely with operations, quality, planning, and maintenance teams to support safe, efficient, and compliant production, minimize downtime, and resolve issues during off-hours operations. The position also performs traditional manufacturing engineering work for mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblies, including process development, work-instruction creation, tooling support, root-cause investigation, process improvement, and production readiness. The work schedule is four 10-hour days per week. Travel of less than 10% is expected.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 2 years of related experience; alternatively, at least 8 years of prior related manufacturing experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 6 years of experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, and Excel.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
- Experience in the defense or aerospace industry.
- Experience with pressing, staking, riveting, swaging, potting, electronics soldering, conformal coating, packaging, X-ray inspection, laser welding, robotics, and control systems.
- Experience with ANSI J-STD-001, AS9100, and ANSI Y14.5.
- Experience with SolidEdge and Minitab.
- Experience with 6sig, 8D, CostPoint, TipQA, and GD&T.
- At least 4 years of work experience related to fabrication or assembly of close-tolerance mechanical, electronic, or electromechanical piece parts.
Responsibilities
- Provide primary manufacturing engineering support for second-shift production and serve as the main engineering point of contact for shop-floor issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve process, equipment, tooling, and documentation issues affecting safety, quality, delivery, or production flow.
- Analyze manufacturing production problems and implement corrective actions involving designs, materials, and processes.
- Provide manufacturing technical expertise and support.
- Train production personnel in new or existing operations.
- Communicate and document production issues and actions taken for other shifts.
- Analyze engineering design documents and develop the methods, processes, tools, jigs, and fixtures required to fabricate products.
- Develop work instructions, control plans, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (PFMEAs), and process validation plans.
- Introduce methods and processes to improve existing operations.
- Review product designs for manufacturability and completeness.
- Interface with equipment vendors and specify equipment by preparing Statement of Requirements documents.
- Prepare capital equipment requests.
- Design equipment and workspace layouts.
- Prepare reports and white papers summarizing manufacturing performance information or trends.
- Conduct capacity analyses, capability studies, and gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies.
- Perform other assigned duties.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
