Manufacturing Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• First Line of Defense: Embed on the production floor to rapidly respond to, diagnose, and resolve in-line production issues across assembly, integration, and test — keeping downtime to an absolute minimum.
• Downtime & Ticket Management: Own the response process when the line goes down. Triage, drive, and close production downtime & non-conformance issues, coordinating engineering, maintenance, quality, and supply chain to…
• Digital Line Operations: Handle the essential digital administration of the line. Own the day-to-day updates and troubleshooting within our ERP and MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) to ensure accurate production…
• Root Cause & Debugging: Perform rapid debugging, testing, and root-cause analysis (RCA) on failing hardware and processes.
• Floor Collaboration: Partner hands-on with technicians and assemblers every day, capturing assembly friction points and feeding improvements back into process and design.
• Documentation & Training: Create, update, and maintain clear, accurate work instructions, SOPs, and rework procedures so the floor always runs to the current standard.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze line data to surface recurring failures and bottlenecks, and drive incremental improvements to yield, throughput, and first-pass quality.

Job requirements

• Degree in a technical field such as mechanical, electrical, systems, or industrial engineering, or a related hard science.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting an active production line — in manufacturing, production, process, sustainment, or industrial engineering.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience troubleshooting, testing, and assembling electromechanical hardware in a live production environment.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing and managing data within MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and ERP platforms to track yields, routing, and inventory.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Experience in aerospace/defense or another regulated, high-reliability industry, including familiarity with defense terminology and processes.
• Exposure to ISO 9001 / AS9100 quality systems.
• Familiarity with optical / opto-mechanical system integration and test.