The Manufacturing Engineer is a shop‑floor-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 cross‑functionally 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 real‑time technical issues.
• Troubleshoot process, tooling, equipment, and quality issues at the cell level; lead root‑cause 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 cost‑effective.
• Drive continuous improvement in:
  • Safety performance
  • First‑pass 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), run‑offs, 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
  • Engineered‑to‑order 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 cross‑functional teams.