Manufacturing Engineer
The Manufacturing Engineer, working under the direction of the Manufacturing Engineering Manager with minimum supervision, is responsible for maintaining product delivery and quality requirements. This can include; RCCA, PFMEA support, Manufacturing Instructions, implementation of process improvements, and daily involvement in production support.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares Manufacturing Engineering, modifications/improvements to Tool Design, Tool Fabrication and activity schedules required to assure conformance to contract delivery requirements.
- Creates CAD models, drawings, and work instructions meeting customer specifications and delivery commitments
- Designs and develops improvements/make-new to tooling, processes, and procedures to support manufacture of composite parts and assemblies including mold tools, drill fixtures, and assembly tools
- Provide sustaining engineering as required; maintain and improve company’s competitive position by identifying, justifying, and implementing manufacturing improvements.
- Assist in development of technical portions of new business proposals including selection of manufacturing methods and production processes, selection of tooling, and definition of costs required to implement.
- Perform make verses buy analyses and provide related recommendations to management.
- Create and maintain records, data schedules and other pertinent information as required.
- Provide ME support to Lean activities, cellular standardization and continuous improvement efforts as required.
- May assist in structuring departmental budgets.
- Conducts producibility studies to evaluate production process reliability and provide appropriate recommendations.
- Prepares specification of production operations, prepares vendor instructions for operations sourced outside the company and defines tooling requirements and issuance of tool orders to Tool Fabrication department.
- Interact with customer organizations including, tool and product configuration and manufacturing tolerances that affect producibility, cost and schedules.
- Perform other duties as assigned. Accomplish related results as needed.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical field required and 3 years related experience preferred.
- Must be able to read blueprints, technical drawings, bills of material, assembly instructions utilized to build units, assemblies, and parts.
- Broad knowledge of a general technical field such as mechanical or aerospace engineering.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Proficiency with CAD software (SolidWorks preferred), ERP systems (Epicor preferred) and general office applications (MS Office preferred)
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to work hands on within the production environment
- Ability to work effectively with internal and external customers
Vermont Composite is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other protected characteristics protected by law. Vermont Composite and all its related companies fully endorse equal opportunity for all.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical field
- Three years of related experience
- Ability to read blueprints, technical drawings, bills of material, and assembly instructions
- Broad knowledge of a technical field such as mechanical or aerospace engineering
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency with CAD software, preferably SolidWorks
- Experience with ERP systems, preferably Epicor
- Proficiency with general office applications, preferably Microsoft Office
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Ability to work hands-on within a production environment
- Ability to work effectively with internal and external customers
Kaman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kaman and has not been reviewed or approved by Kaman.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, including medical and pharmacy options alongside dental and vision offerings. Additional supported services like telehealth and certain complementary care benefits are part of the package described.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is anchored by a 401(k) plan with a company match, which is presented as a meaningful component of total rewards. This retirement feature is repeatedly highlighted as a core benefit alongside other financial programs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced through work-life programs that provide access to counseling, legal consultations, financial expertise, and other services for employees and household members. Tuition reimbursement and broader development support also contribute to perceived non-pay value.
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What We Do
Since 1945, Kaman has been a leading innovator in the aerospace industry, serving commercial and military customers around the world. Our technical expertise and broad array of solutions have helped us grow to become one of North America's largest industrial distributors and system consultants









