Looking to build your career with a company that values innovation, stability, and people? Join our dedicated team as an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer in Bridgeton, MO!
Since 1946, Hunter Engineering has been aligning cutting-edge technology with a strong commitment to quality. As a family-owned, American-made company, Hunter is the global leader in automotive service equipment, with our products used in over 130 countries by top vehicle manufacturers, tire companies, and service centers.
We’re proud to be recognized as a Best Places to Work finalist by the St. Louis Business Journal for five consecutive years (2022 – 2026) – a testament to our commitment to our people. Here, employees are supported, challenged, and take pride in their work. We offer exceptional benefits, a healthy work-life balance, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
If you’re ready to join a team that’s shaping the future of automotive service, read on.
As an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, you will be involved in all aspects of advanced process development, documentation, and fixture design.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide product manufacturability feedback to R&D Engineers for assigned New Product Development (NPD) projects.
- Design fixtures needed to support welding, machining, and assembly processes for manufacturing sites.
- Lead capital equipment projects and capacity resource planning associated with assigned projects.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and quality engineers at all manufacturing sites.
- Investigating new technologies for manufacturing process needs.
- Oversee tooling and equipment builds, qualifications, and implementations.
- Lead cross functional teams in DFMA activities for assigned projects.
- Develop a facilities plan, including processing equipment, cell layout, material flow, and infrastructure needs.
- Creation of process documents including fabrication and assembly work instructions.
- Manufacturing technical resource for R&D Engineering team.
- Additional duties as assigned.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering.
- 3+ years of professional experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
- Strong leadership skills working in a collaborative environment.
- Proven project management skills and experience.
- Effective communication skills across all levels of the organization
- Experience performing DFMA events & assisting in NPD / NPI projects.
- Possess technical knowledge of metalworking processes including laser cutting, sheet metal bending, welding, and power coat finishing.
- Experience with 3D CAD software in fixture design environment, Creo preferred; 2D AutoCAD preferred.
- Proficient in GD&T and best drafting practices.
- Powered and manual work holding design experience.
- 15-20% travel required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Capital equipment procurement experience.
- Manufacturing Execution System experience.
- Lean Manufacturing training.
- Green belt or Yellow belt certification.
What We Offer:
- Industry-Leading Healthcare Coverage
- Profit-Sharing Plan with Safe Harbor Contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Free Onsite Fitness & Recreation Center
Join us in our mission to ‘Align People and Innovation to Drive Excellence!’
- Make Lives Better Together
- Take Pride in the Extraordinary
- Define the Standard
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering.
- 3+ years professional experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
- Strong leadership skills working in a collaborative environment.
- Proven project management skills and experience.
- Effective communication skills across all levels of the organization.
- Experience performing DFMA events and assisting in NPD/NPI projects.
- Technical knowledge of metalworking processes (laser cutting, sheet metal bending, welding, powder coat finishing).
- Experience with 3D CAD software in fixture design environment (Creo preferred).
- Experience with 2D AutoCAD.
- Proficient in GD&T and best drafting practices.
- Powered and manual work holding design experience.
- Willingness/ability to travel 15-20%.
- Capital equipment procurement experience.
- Manufacturing Execution System experience.
- Lean Manufacturing training.
- Green Belt or Yellow Belt certification.
Hunter Engineering Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hunter Engineering Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Hunter Engineering Company.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many salaried and plant roles, with consistent descriptions of good pay and fair compensation. Earning potential can be notably strong in consultative field roles when performance and territory align.
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Retirement Support — A Safe Harbor 401(k) with an automatic company contribution is paired with a separate profit‑sharing plan. Plan specifics include immediate vesting for Safe Harbor funds and a defined vesting timeline for profit sharing.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that scales with tenure, personal days, and a broad paid holiday schedule are described. Parental and adoption leave complement the package, with paid volunteer time also noted.
Hunter Engineering Company Insights
What We Do
Hunter Engineering Company is a global leader in automotive service equipment, offering state-of-the-art wheel alignment systems, wheel balancers, tire changers, vehicle inspection equipment, brake lathes and more. Since 1946, when Automotive Hall of Fame inductee Lee Hunter founded Hunter Engineering, the company has built a reputation for innovation and visionary leadership in the application of the newest technologies to automotive undercar service. Hunter's award-winning research and development team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers are responsible for hundreds of patented and exclusive features that make Hunter products the most productive undercar service equipment available. Hunter has a total of over 350 awarded patents while releasing an average of 7-10 new patents each year. Hunter fields the largest dedicated sales and service force in the undercar service industry with approximately 390+ sales representatives and 410+ independent service representatives throughout the United States.
