Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location: Cedar Park, TXÂ Â (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) Engagement Type: Permanent Role Target Compensation: $120,000-$160,000 + comprehensive benefits
Here’s what you’ll be doing:
- Develop Initial Build Methodologies & Scale Production: Collaborate with production leadership and design engineering teams to establish prototype assembly processes and then evolve and expand these methodologies for full-scale manufacturing. This position is crucial in defining and optimizing production workflows, leading cross-functional groups, and contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality products.
- Process Design & Optimization: Engineer, develop, and deploy efficient manufacturing procedures for power unit and generator assembly operations.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify and spearhead initiatives aimed at enhancing productivity, minimizing waste, and boosting operational efficiency through lean methodologies.
- Provide Technical Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert for assembly procedures, offering technical guidance and support to production teams.
- Integrate Advanced Manufacturing: Incorporate modern manufacturing technologies (e.g., 3D printing) into production processes where applicable, to improve design flexibility and reduce costs.
- Manage Manufacturing Projects: Oversee interdisciplinary projects, ensuring adherence to specified timelines, budgets, and objectives.
- Conduct Problem Solving & Analysis: Support root cause analysis and corrective action initiatives to address manufacturing issues and enhance product quality.
- Specify Tooling & Equipment: Design and determine specifications for specialized tooling, jigs, and fixtures to facilitate production activities.
Here’s what our ideal candidate has:
- Foundational Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g., Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial). An advanced technical or business degree is advantageous.
- Extensive Manufacturing Experience: Over 7 years of experience in a manufacturing engineering capacity, with considerable background in the assembly of power units, generator sets, and/or electric motors.
- Business Acumen: Understanding of business value drivers and the ability to objectively evaluate and justify strategic options.
- Precision Manufacturing Background: Experience in aerospace or other high-precision manufacturing sectors is strongly preferred.
- Process Improvement Expertise: Proven expertise in manufacturing process development and enhancement (e.g., lean principles, continuous improvement methodologies, error detection/prevention, fixture design). Experience with experimental design, measurement system analysis, and process validation.
- Tooling Design Capability: Capability to design specialized tooling for medium to high-volume production.
- Automation Implementation: Demonstrated experience deploying automation within manufacturing workflows.
- Prototype to Production Scaling: Background in prototype development and scaling initial processes to full production volumes.
- Fabrication & Assembly Experience: Experience with bespoke fabrication, and assembly processes for power units, generator sets, and electric motors.
- Software Proficiency: Proficiency in leading design software (e.g., 3D CAD, tolerance stack-up analysis, geometric dimensioning & tolerancing) and manufacturing execution systems.
- Continuous Improvement Knowledge: Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, and similar continuous improvement frameworks.
- Industry Standards Familiarity: Knowledge of industry-specific quality standards and regulatory compliance (e.g., those found in automotive or aerospace).
- Additive Manufacturing: Experience with additive manufacturing techniques (e.g., 3D printing) is a plus.
Working Conditions & Travel:
- This is a full-time, salaried position, operating in both office and manufacturing/production environments.
- Potential for extended on-site presence during new process development.
- Regular travel (up to 30%) to various engineering and production facilities.
Important Note: Candidates requiring employment sponsorship are not being considered for this role at this time.
Benefits:
A comprehensive benefits package is provided, including health, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, and retirement savings options.
