Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer is a shopfloor-first engineering role focused on executing safe, capable, and compliant manufacturing processes for ASME pressure vessels and engineered products. This role supports a high-mix, welded tank fabrication environment with a focus on supporting daily production, resolving constraints, improving safety, quality, delivery, and cost, and leading capital and continuous improvement projects from concept through execution.

This role serves as a key liaison between Product Development and Operations, ensuring new product designs are feasible, cost-effective, and scalable within current and future manufacturing capacity.

The role collaborates crossfunctionally with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance, and reports to the Plant Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Maintain daily shop floor presence supporting ASME production lines; actively engage with supervisors, leads, and operators to resolve realtime technical issues.

• Troubleshoot process, tooling, equipment, and quality issues at the cell level; lead rootcause analysis and corrective actions.

• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production problems affecting safety, quality, or throughput.

• Ensure manufacturing processes comply with applicable ASME Section VIII / IX, customer, and regulatory requirements.

• Partner with Quality to support:

• Weld procedures (WPS/PQR/WPQR)

• Product tolerance control

• Hydro, pneumatic, and functional testing requirements

• Collaborate with Product Engineering during ECO processes to ensure designs are manufacturable, scalable, and costeffective.

• Drive continuous improvement in:

• Safety performance

• Firstpass yield

• Scrap and rework reduction

• Labor and cycle time

• Specify, justify, and support implementation of manufacturing equipment, fixtures, tooling, and automation.

• Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), runoffs, and equipment commissioning.

• Work closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment capability, uptime, and safe operation.

• Partner with Operations and Quality to support certification, qualification, and skills development (e.g., welding, testing, specialty processes).

Desired Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, or Welding Engineering (or equivalent experience).

• 3-7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, preferably in:

• ASME pressure vessels

• Fabricated or welded products

• Engineeredtoorder environments

• Strong knowledge of shop floor manufacturing operations, welding, forming, assembly and/or pressure testing processes.

• Structured problem solving, clear communication, collaborative leadership, and the ability to influence crossfunctional teams.