Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer -Aerospace Industry
Location: Elma Center, New York, United States

Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense
Job Category: Engineering - Industrial / Manufacturing

  
Here is what you can expect….
 Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and
production process development.
 Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various
development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
 Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge
lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work
instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
 Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production
processes.

 Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run
hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component’s processes
throughout the entire parts routing.
 Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
 Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and
implementation.

 Work days are split between hands on shop interaction and office assignments. Many times,
the Manufacturing engineers performs their own machine program proveouts side by side
with shop personnel.
 Project leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing
Engineering Manager.
 Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve
reduced attended labor and human factor variation. Assignment/Ownership of a dedicated
manufacturing cell is likely.
 Some international and/or domestic travel as required (5% or approx. two weeks/year).
 
What we are looking for…
 Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech).
o Additional seasoned experience in manufacturing engineering that would be
equivalent to what is learned in a degreed program would be reviewed for an
acceptable alternative to the B. S. Degree requirement.

 A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with
increasing responsibility.
 A minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
 CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M
Code programming.
 Strong cutting tool and workholding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and
automation tooling/workholding experience a plus.
 Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex
milled parts.
 A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and
technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
 Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of
people.

 The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
 Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
 A “Lean Mindset” and leadership skills to drive change towards a “Lean factory” and
“Standardized Work”. (Lean belt certification a plus)
 The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. Experience with MS
Project is a plus.
 Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
 Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T

 Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium,
Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.