About the JobMust be willing to travel/permanently relocate to Sandpoint,ID.The ideal candidate will have strong manufacturing engineering experience with the ability to independently manage day-to-day process improvements while recognizing when more complex or higher-risk decisions require support from senior engineering leadership. This is an excellent opportunity to join long-term manufacturing programs offering competitive pay, career growth, and opportunities to work with advanced production technologies and complex manufacturing systems.
Essential Functions:- Work directly with mechanics, technicians, and production personnel to identify and resolve manufacturing and assembly issues.
- Improve manufacturing methods, processes, ergonomics, work content, and production flow within assigned manufacturing areas.
- Analyze build sequences and develop practical, efficient, and repeatable manufacturing processes.
- Use CAD models, engineering drawings, and technical documentation to understand design intent and identify opportunities to improve manufacturability.
- Develop and maintain manufacturing drawings, models, work instructions, process documentation, and other manufacturing engineering deliverables.
- Ensure manufacturing changes remain traceable to engineering requirements and maintain required fit, form, function, quality, and configuration control.
- Perform Design for Manufacturability (DFM) analysis and recommend design or process improvements to improve production efficiency and reduce manufacturing issues.
- Develop and present engineering recommendations and design-change proposals to Design Engineering and manufacturing leadership.
- Support initiatives focused on reducing labor hours, production costs, rework, scrap, and manufacturing cycle time.
- Support tooling definition, fixture requirements, process development, and production equipment improvements.
- Assist with ERP and manufacturing system alignment, including eBOM/mBOM reconciliation, routings, work content, and production data.
- Identify root causes of manufacturing problems and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Production, Maintenance, and suppliers to resolve manufacturability and production issues.
- Support supplier manufacturability reviews and resolution of production-related issues.
- Ensure manufacturing processes comply with applicable quality, safety, engineering, and customer requirements.
- Support continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and operational excellence initiatives.
Requirements:- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, preferably in aerospace or complex assembly.
- Strong hands-on understanding of machining, sheet metal, welding, composites, and mechanical or electrical assembly, with depth in at least one area and working knowledge across others.
- Strong CAD proficiency and fluency reading and interpreting engineering drawings, including GD&T per ASME Y14.5.
- Experience with DFM analysis and manufacturing-specific documentation, or strong aptitude and willingness to build this capability.
- Working ERP experience such as Epicor or SAP, including eBOM/mBOM reconciliation and routings.
- Credibility on the shop floor, good judgment, root-cause problem solving, and a track record of following through on assigned work.
