Junior Manufacturing Engineer

About the Role

The Junior Manufacturing Engineer defines, researches, develops, justifies, implements, and sustains safe, cost-effective manufacturing equipment, processes, methods, fixtures, and tooling. This role uses sound Engineering and Project Management principles aligned with customer requirements, product specifications, and quality standards. The engineer contributes to equipment, machinery, continuous improvement projects, and departmental initiatives while maintaining a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and Lean principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicates effectively with internal and external customers and meets deadlines.
• Contributes to small projects with Operations, Product Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams.
• Helps develop, document, specify, and justify machinery, equipment, tooling, and automation specifications.
• Analyzes requests for manufacturing method changes to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Recommends and develops manufacturing and logistics methodologies that reduce waste and improve quality.
• Creates and modifies work instructions.
• Performs ergonomic, cost reduction, quality, and efficiency analyses.
• Gathers data and supports root-cause analysis and troubleshooting.
• Performs time studies and creates standards.
• Modifies and creates new routings.
• Supports the Safety Committee as needed.
• Maintains AutoCAD drawings with revision control.
• Maintains and improves equipment and machinery specifications.
• Modifies and creates tooling drawings and maintains tooling logs.
• Supports LOTO procedures.
• Provides technical support to Maintenance.
• Follows departmental standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• AutoCAD
• Esprit CAM
• Qlick
• Microsoft Office

Qualifications

• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong work ethic and teamwork skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter.
• Excellent writing, presentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, layouts, assembly, machining, and tooling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and creativity.
• Quality-oriented with strong attention to detail.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Industrial Distribution & Logistics, Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

Additional Experience Considerations

• A manufacturing co-op or internship makes a candidate much stronger.
• Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma experience is a plus.
• Project Management experience is a plus.
• Experience managing engineering projects, timelines, and cross-functional teams is a plus.
• Automation experience (robotics, conveyors, sensors, manufacturing automation) is a plus.
• ERP/MRP system knowledge (SAP, Epicor, Oracle, Plex, or other manufacturing systems) is a plus.
• CAD/CAM experience beyond AutoCAD (SolidWorks, Inventor, Mastercam, or similar) is a plus.