Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Auburn NY
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite
Employment Type: Direct Hire Full-Time
Salary: $100000$120000 base 10% bonus
Schedule: Flexible 4045 hour workweek

Position Overview

The Advanced Manufacturing Engineer will support New Product Introduction (NPI) projects from initial concept through full production launch. This role will determine how new products can be manufactured efficiently reliably and at scale while partnering closely with engineering operations quality tooling and production teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing-readiness activities for NPI projects from tooling kickoff through production release.
• Evaluate product manufacturability and production requirements.
• Determine tooling packaging automation equipment labor and process-capability requirements.
• Develop cost estimates and quoting inputs for labor tooling packaging automation machinery and manufacturing processes.
• Define qualify and validate new manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Support PFMEA IQ OQ and PQ activities.
• Create work instructions SOPs project records and production-handoff documentation.
• Train operators and support production teams during new-product launches.
• Monitor launch metrics and manage the transition from engineering into ongoing production.
• Prepare and evaluate RFQ packages for packaging automation and post-processing equipment.
• Manage project scope action items deadlines and communication throughout development and launch.
• Work directly with suppliers customers tooling shops and internal cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 4 years of manufacturing engineering process engineering or new product launch experience.
• Experience with injection molding and/or blow molding.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma PFMEA and process validation.
• Strong communication organizational project management and problem-solving skills.

Additional Experience

• IQ OQ and PQ experience.
• SolidWorks or similar CAD software.
• ERP systems.
• IQMS/DELMIAWorks.

Work Environment

• Combination of office and manufacturing-floor work.
• Highly collaborative environment involving engineering production quality tooling and operations.
• Minimal travel to suppliers customers and tooling partners.

Benefits

• Company covers approximately 87% of employee healthcare costs.
• Medical dental and vision coverage available immediately upon hire.
• 401(k) with 50% company match on contributions up to 6%.
• Vacation/PTO negotiable based on experience with a typical starting point of 2 weeks.
• PTO accrual cap of 240 hours.
• Flexible holiday PTO bank allowing employees to choose which major holidays they take off.

Why Join This Team

This is an opportunity to take real ownership of how new products move from concept to production. You will have a direct impact on manufacturability tooling automation equipment process validation and successful product launches rather than being limited to sustaining existing production.

Youll work alongside experienced engineering tooling quality and operations professionals in a collaborative family-oriented team environment. As you take ownership of increasingly complex NPI and manufacturing-launch projects there is room to grow into senior engineering lead engineering engineering management or advanced engineering leadership opportunities.

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