Jobs at Waltonen Engineering

Simulate and optimize robotic systems using Process Simulate, ensuring collision-free layouts, cycle-time performance, customer compliance, and accurate sequencing. The role supports robotic selection, tooling validation, offline programming, and collaboration with mechanical design, processing, and system layout teams. It may also involve mentoring junior simulation engineers and meeting project deadlines.

Lead business development, capture, and proposal efforts for U.S. Department of the Navy initiatives. Develop growth strategies, identify opportunities across Navy system commands, manage proposal lifecycles, build stakeholder relationships, monitor competitors, and ensure regulatory compliance. The role also involves mentoring teams, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, presenting proposals, and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced defense engineering environment.

Reviews finished products, inspection reports, certifications, tooling, and quality documentation for customer and contractual compliance. Prepares final quality packages, manages calibration activities, supports manual inspections, investigates nonconformances, and serves as liaison to customer quality representatives and inspectors. Interprets GD&T and customer standards while supporting build teams and project stakeholders.

Waltonen Engineering accepts applications for future opportunities across its engineering organization. Qualified candidates may have their resumes retained for consideration when suitable roles become available. The company serves the automotive, aerospace, and defense industries and requires employees to follow its quality system. Benefits include insurance, paid time off, retirement matching, tuition reimbursement, flexible spending programs, disability coverage, and eligible hybrid work arrangements.

Develops, optimizes, tests, and validates CNC programs for milling, turning, and other machining operations. Reviews engineering drawings, blueprints, technical specifications, and 3D CAD models to determine machining strategies, tooling, fixtures, sequences, speeds, feeds, and cutting paths. Revises programs to improve cycle times, reduce waste, maintain tight tolerances, and ensure production quality.

Manage full-cycle recruiting for specialized technical and professional roles across engineering, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, automation, and IT. Responsibilities include partnering with hiring managers, sourcing active and passive candidates, building talent pipelines, screening applicants, coordinating interviews, maintaining ATS records, providing market insights, supporting employer branding and recruiting events, and updating job descriptions.

Design and detail tooling using NX/Unigraphics from concept through 3D modeling and 2D drawings. Perform engineering calculations, material selection, bills of materials, and collaborate with drafters to meet customer requirements and quality systems.

Place automated robotic systems in manufacturing facilities using CAD (including FactoryCAD), develop zone and system layouts to optimize processes, ensure proper robotic placement and safety, collaborate with processing, simulation, and design teams, and occasionally travel to customer sites to support implementations.

Support engineering projects to create product sequence sheets and time studies, design ergonomic operator stations, produce timing and weld documentation, coordinate design/regulatory groups, prepare specifications, execute quality initiatives, meet customer requirements, and drive continuous improvement for automotive BIW tooling.

Lead and supervise designers, detailers, and checkers; present technical information to customers; perform daily CAD design tasks; meet deadlines; communicate with customers, peers, and subordinates; multitask and prioritize work within the quality system.

Responsible for programming and operating CNC machines to produce machined parts, maintaining equipment, ensuring safety, and collaborating across shifts.

The CNC Machinist will produce machined parts, set up and operate CNC machines, maintain safety operations, and ensure equipment upkeep.