Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer, 2nd Shift
About The Position
The Manufacturing Engineer provides direct, hands-on support for second-shift manufacturing operations and shop-floor production activities. The role supports strategic programs important to U.S. Armed Forces readiness and works closely with operations, quality, planning, and maintenance teams to promote safe, efficient, and compliant manufacturing, minimize downtime, and resolve issues quickly during off-hours operations. In addition to real-time production support, the position performs manufacturing engineering functions including process development, work-instruction creation, tooling support, root-cause investigation, process improvement, and production readiness for mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical assemblies. The schedule is four 10-hour days per week, with less than 10% travel expected.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of prior relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 2 years of prior related experience; in lieu of a degree, at least 8 years of prior related manufacturing experience.
- At least 6 years of experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, and Excel.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing 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 electro-mechanical piece parts.
Responsibilities
- Provide primary manufacturing engineering support for second-shift production and serve as the main manufacturing 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 and prepare work instructions, control plans, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (PFMEAs), and process validation plans.
- Incorporate new methods and processes to improve existing operations.
- Review product designs for manufacturability and completeness.
- Interface with equipment vendors and specify equipment by writing Statement of Requirements documents.
- Prepare capital equipment requests.
- Design equipment and workspace layouts.
- Prepare reports and white papers summarizing information or trends related to manufacturing performance.
- Conduct capacity analysis, capability studies, and gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
