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Manufacturing Engineer at Sitreps 2 Steercos | LAYIQ

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About the Client

A defense-technology company building mission-ready sensor and edge hardware, where none of it reaches the field without a production line that works.

About the Role

As Manufacturing Engineer, you'll own that line — the processes, fixtures, and quality systems that turn engineering designs into hardware that ships. You'll be the person production stops for when something breaks, and the person design comes to when a drawing doesn't survive contact with the assembly bench. This is a build-it-yourself role in a company small enough that your decisions on the floor directly affect whether the next delivery is hit.

Responsibilities

Own manufacturing process development, tooling, and test fixture design for the company's stand up of a Las Vegas production line
Serve as the primary technical escalation point for production issues — diagnosing root cause and implementing corrective action, not just documenting the defect
Provide design-for-manufacturability (DFM) feedback to engineering before and during new product introduction, catching production-unfriendly designs before they hit the floor
Develop and maintain work instructions, quality checkpoints, and production documentation
Directly manage Associate Engineers on the assembly floor - technical mentorship, day-to-day work direction, and formal performance ownership
Partner closely with Operations on capacity planning and production scheduling, and with Program Management on order commitments
Drive continuous improvement in yield, cycle time, and first-pass quality across product lines

Requirements

Must-Haves
BS in Mechanical Engineering (or Electrical Engineering with directly relevant manufacturing/production experience — see below)
3-6 years of hands-on manufacturing/production engineering experience, ideally in low-volume, high-mix hardware environments
Demonstrated experience taking a product from design into production - process development, fixture/tooling design
Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues under schedule pressure
Ability to read and work directly from engineering drawings, schematics, and BOMs
Prior experience managing or formally supervising junior engineers or technicians
Nice-to-Haves
Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated/low-volume hardware manufacturing
Formal quality systems experience (ISO 9001, or similar)
For EE candidates specifically: demonstrated mechanical/production fluency (fixture design, tolerancing, hands-on assembly troubleshooting) beyond core EE coursework

Manufacturing Engineer

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