Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Job Title: Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer Job Code: 43436 Job Location: Cincinnati, OH Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days per week
Job Description: This position supports strategic programs essential to maintaining U.S. Armed Forces’ readiness. The successful Manufacturing Engineer will contribute as a member of a program team, providing technical expertise and guidance in product design and process development. Activities include development of production processes, procedures, and layouts for mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical assemblies. Manufacturing Engineers also support production through operator training, process issue resolution, and monitoring and evaluating existing operations for opportunities to improve efficiency, first pass yield, and scrap rates.
Essential Functions:
- Analyze engineering design documents and develop the methods, processes, tools, jigs, fixtures, etc. required to fabricate the specified product.
- Develop and prepare work instructions, control plans, Process Failure Mode Effects Analyses (PFMEAs), and process validation plans.
- Lead the set-up and validation of new production lines.
- Analyze manufacturing production problems and implement corrective actions involving designs, materials, and processes.
- Provide technical expertise and support related to manufacturing.
- Incorporate new methods and processes to improve existing operations.
- Review product designs for manufacturability and completeness.
- Train production personnel in new or existing operations.
- Interface with equipment vendors and specify equipment through writing Statement of Requirements documents.
- Prepare capital equipment requests.
- Design layout of equipment and workspaces.
- Prepare reports and white papers summarizing information or trends related to manufacturing performance.
- Conduct capacity analyses, capability studies, and gage repeatability and reproducibility studies.
- Less than 10% travel expected.
- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.
- Perform other job duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience OR Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related Manufacturing engineering experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering.
- Experience in the defense or aerospace industry.
- Experience with pressing, staking, riveting, swaging, potting, electronics soldering, conformal coating, packaging, X-ray inspection, laser welding, robotics, and control systems.
- Experience with ANSI J-STD-001, AS9100, and ANSI Y14.5.
- Experience with SolidEdge and Minitab.
- Experience with 6sig, 8D, CostPoint, TipQA, GD&T.
- 4 years or more of work experience related to the fabrication or assembly of close tolerance mechanical, electronic, or electro-mechanical piece parts.
- 6 years or more with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, and Excel).
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Posted 23 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job