Top Manufacturing Engineer Jobs

Own production processes from build readiness through steady-state manufacturing. Partner with customers on design for manufacturability, install and test equipment, and lead mechanical design for robotic cells including effectors, fixtures, and layouts. Collaborate with software engineers to incorporate manufacturing constraints into Helicon’s supply-chain platform. The role focuses on composites, industrial robotics, equipment integration, and scalable production.

Leads manufacturing engineering for aerospace and defense products, developing and optimizing processes, manufacturing plans, tooling, work instructions, and production documentation. Provides hands-on shop-floor support, resolves production issues, applies GD&T, supports quoting and cost estimation, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with design, production, quality, procurement, and program teams across product development and production. Mentors engineers and production personnel while ensuring compliance with aerospace quality and customer requirements.

Designs and optimizes machining processes for milled parts, including CNC programming, setup documentation, operation prints, tooling, work holding, and equipment selection. Supports production, quoting, quality reviews, root-cause analysis, and continuous-improvement initiatives such as Kaizen events. Develops new products, coordinates inspection methods, mentors engineers and machinists, and provides floor support in a precision machining environment.

Analyze and improve manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment setups, and production methods. Lead manufacturing readiness for new product launches, validate processes, troubleshoot production issues, and execute continuous-improvement projects. Apply Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma to improve productivity, quality, scrap, cycle time, and OEE. Develop work instructions and training materials while collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting operator development.

Leads CNC machining process improvements, capital projects, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across turning, milling, grinding, honing, and broaching operations. Establishes machining parameters, manages tooling, fixtures, gauging, and equipment processes, and guides projects from scope through commissioning. Serves as the plant machining subject matter expert, mentors technical staff, performs root-cause problem solving, and collaborates with operations, maintenance, quality, supply chain, suppliers, and product engineering.

The Manufacturing Engineer develops and validates manufacturing processes for hardware products, ensuring designs can be built at scale while maintaining quality and efficiency.

Lead manufacturing process development for high-reliability fluid and electro-mechanical aerospace systems. Drive design-for-manufacturing, process planning, BOMs, tooling, work instructions, prototype builds, test procedures, AI&T support, and continuous improvement for scalable production.

Lead development and scale manufacturing processes for aerospace and defense hardware. Own process planning, BOMs, routings, tooling, work instructions, test procedures, and manufacturing readiness. Drive continuous improvement, support prototype builds, and collaborate with design, quality, and production to ensure scalable, high-reliability manufacturing.

Leads mechanical manufacturing engineering and continuous improvement for specialty chemical containers. Responsibilities include SPC and statistical analysis, failure analysis, root-cause correction, process documentation, ERP master-data maintenance, capacity expansion, equipment troubleshooting, preventive maintenance planning, audits, and cross-functional project leadership. The role also mentors personnel and supports qualification, validation, quality improvement, and operational decision-making.

Designs, sources, and commissions automated high-volume battery assembly systems, including conveyance, joining, welding, robotics, vision, and inspection. Leads design-for-manufacturability efforts, maintains DFMEAs, manages risk, and coordinates manufacturing engineers and controls partners. Owns project timelines, budgets, requirements, commissioning, and production handoff while guiding equipment and automation decisions.

Develops and improves safe, efficient manufacturing processes; leads small to medium engineering projects; resolves production issues; evaluates equipment and process alternatives; creates procedures and training; coordinates implementation; supports technicians and maintenance personnel; and performs industrial engineering functions. The role is onsite Monday through Friday and may require travel to other facilities or training locations.

Provides hands-on technical support for medical device manufacturing, including root-cause analysis, process and equipment development, test fixtures, documentation, BOM changes, validation, and SOP creation. Collaborates with Quality, Product Development, and sustaining teams on regulatory compliance, new product introduction, design changes, reliability, continuous improvement, and cost reduction for medical robotic and navigation products.

Lead deployment of continuous improvement strategy at a local ABB unit: coach and mentor teams, run Kaizen/Six Sigma projects to improve safety, quality, delivery, inventory and cost, align local practices with global strategy, remove roadblocks, develop training materials, and manage equipment purchase and project implementation.

Performs manufacturing engineering for special-processing operations, including statistical process control, equipment troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, process improvement, fixture design, product quality monitoring, and root-cause analysis. Leads manufacturing readiness for new products, develops documentation and procedures, trains production staff, and coordinates cross-functional resolution of process and customer issues. Requires flexibility for shifts, overtime, and weekends.

Supports centrifugal casting process development through equipment preparation, experimental execution, design of experiments, data analysis, troubleshooting, and process improvement. The role develops manufacturing parameters and documentation while improving safety, quality, traceability, cost, and production flow. Approximately 75% of the work occurs on the shop floor, requiring collaboration with engineers, technicians, and production personnel. The engineer also reviews drawings, applies GD&T, communicates technical findings, and provides shift handoffs. Domestic travel up to 25% is required.

Creates 2D and 3D piping layouts, fabrication drawings, bills of material, estimates, and manufacturing documentation. Programs and supports HGG and plasma cutting equipment, verifies labor and material costs, maintains CAD and document control systems, and assists with ERP/MRP data. The role supports production, project execution, process improvements, equipment training, customer requirements, and technical communications while managing multiple deadlines in an on-site manufacturing environment.

Lead aerospace manufacturing engineering for lunar vehicle components, especially composite structures. Develop and optimize repeatable manufacturing processes, work instructions, tooling, inspection plans, and production documentation. Support DFM/DFA/DFT, industrialization, FMEA, root cause analysis, corrective actions, new product introduction, and production-line validation. Collaborate with design, quality, supply chain, and production teams while ensuring AS9100, ISO 9001, safety, and mission-assurance requirements.

Leads manufacturing engineering for lunar aerospace products, translating engineering requirements into repeatable processes and production documentation. Supports DFM/DFA/DFT, tooling and fixture development, advanced manufacturing methods, quality investigations, FMEAs, equipment validation, and process improvements. Collaborates with design, quality, supply chain, and production teams to industrialize new products, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance with aerospace quality and safety standards.

Owns post-casting manufacturing processes for aerospace turbine blades and vanes, including shell knockout, rough machining, chemical core leaching, heat treatment, precision blending, equipment programming, and standard work. Ensures throughput, chemical and thermal compliance, surface finish, and dimensional conformance to casting drawings. Requires an engineering bachelor’s degree, at least three years of hands-on manufacturing experience, knowledge of heat treatment and pyrometry standards, chemical controls, tooling, and casting drawing interpretation.

Design and develop fabrication, assembly, integration, and test processes for flight-qualified rover structures, mechanisms, and subsystems. Lead DFx, standards development, non-conformance investigations, root-cause analysis, hands-on build and test activities, work instruction creation, and cross-functional project execution. Support supplier development, quality systems, configuration management, procurement, and production planning for lunar hardware and facility development.

Coordinates and improves manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, production layouts, procedures, and quality systems. Collaborates with R&D, Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and suppliers to optimize equipment uptime, troubleshoot issues, implement preventive maintenance, support capital projects, and improve production efficiency. The role also prepares work instructions, analyzes manufacturing requirements, supports budgets and ROI studies, and addresses process-related customer complaints.

Controls and improves medical device manufacturing processes by reducing defects, increasing yield, and enhancing productivity. Performs process and tooling qualification, statistical analysis, Lean and Six Sigma initiatives, root cause investigations, and corrective actions. Develops manufacturing documentation, data systems, process FMEAs, and assembly procedures. Supports adhesive dispensing, advanced inspection, nonconforming product investigations, audit findings, and compliance with FDA, QSR, ISO, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Own electrical manufacturing process development and improvement for PCBA, cable/harness, controller, and battery assemblies. Lead IQ/OQ/PQ/PPQ and test method validation while ensuring FDA QSR and ISO 13485 compliance. Investigate electrical assembly nonconformances using root-cause and fault-tree methods, maintain manufacturing documentation, and partner with Electrical R&D, Quality, and Regulatory teams. The role requires Class III or active implantable medical device experience and offers growth toward supplier quality and broader process leadership.

Manufacturing Engineer Interns provide technical support for manufacturing, quality, and operational excellence projects. They assist with projects from scope definition through implementation, support part manufacturability, provide internal customer guidance, and help implement process and design improvements. The role requires enrollment in a four-year Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering program, blueprint-reading ability, measuring-device proficiency, and strong communication and teamwork skills.

Supports manufacturing engineering projects from scope definition through implementation. Provides technical assistance on part manufacturability, process and design improvements, blueprint interpretation, measurement, and compliance with quality systems and medical device requirements. Collaborates with engineering, quality, sales, customer service, and finance teams while following work instructions and standard practices.