Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

The Manufacturing Engineer plays a critical role in connecting product design with real-world production, ensuring that complex electromechanical products are designed for manufacturability and successfully transitioned into scalable, efficient manufacturing.

This position combines New Product Introduction (NPI), process development, capacity planning, production optimization, and hands-on shop-floor support, while providing technical leadership to a small but growing manufacturing engineering team. The role is ideal for an experienced manufacturing engineer who enjoys both influencing product design and being directly involved in day-to-day production, with the opportunity to progress into a future management position.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary manufacturing interface with the design engineering team, representing the production perspective in product and design decisions.
• Participate in Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Test (DFT) reviews, identifying manufacturing risks and recommending practical design improvements.
• Provide manufacturing-focused guidance to designers and engineers to ensure products can be efficiently built, assembled, tested, and scaled.
• Support the transition of new products from completed design through NPI and into full-scale manufacturing.
• Develop and implement manufacturing processes, production plans, workflows, tooling requirements, and work methods for new and existing products.
• Perform capacity analysis and run-rate assessments to identify production requirements, constraints, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support production line and manufacturing cell layout, optimization, and balancing to improve workflow, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Provide hands-on production support by troubleshooting manufacturing issues and working directly with operations to implement effective solutions.
• Conduct regular shop-floor reviews to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, quality concerns, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Lead practical continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, reliability, and repeatability.
• Support planning for capital equipment investments, tooling, and layout changes as production requirements evolve.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small manufacturing engineering team while remaining actively involved in day-to-day engineering activities.
• Balance approximately 3040% of time on team oversight and technical leadership with 6070% on hands-on manufacturing engineering and execution.
• Coordinate manufacturing engineering activities, timelines, and deliverables for NPI and process improvement projects.
• Maintain a high level of accountability and ownership for manufacturing outcomes, production targets, and quality standards.
  
  

Essential Skills

• 7+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, with a strong background in developing and optimizing production processes.
• 2+ years of experience providing technical leadership, mentorship, or oversight to engineers or technicians.
• Demonstrated experience leading NPI and industrialization activities, including transitioning designs into stable and scalable manufacturing.
• Proven experience leading continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong hands-on manufacturing engineering experience, including process development, production optimization, tooling, and layout design.
• Strong understanding of DFM, DFA, and manufacturing process development.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing principles and structured continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience developing manufacturing workflows, tooling requirements, work instructions, and production methods.
• Experience designing or optimizing production lines and manufacturing cells.
• Strong project management skills, including planning and executing manufacturing engineering projects.
• High level of accountability and ownership for manufacturing performance and outcomes.
• Experience working with complex electromechanical products or equipment.
  
  

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working in a high-mix or technically complex manufacturing environment is an asset.
• Previous experience in a lead, supervisory, or managerial capacity within manufacturing engineering is preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt, or equivalent continuous improvement training is an asset.
• Experience supporting manufacturing scale-up, capacity expansion, or facility/layout changes is beneficial.
• Interest in progressing from a technical lead position into a formal management role as the team grows.
  
  

Work Environment

This is a fully on-site position with significant time spent directly on the production floor in a hands-on manufacturing environment. The Manufacturing Engineer will work closely with production, operations, quality, and design engineering teams to support the manufacture of complex electromechanical products and assemblies.

The environment emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and direct involvement with equipment, production processes, and real-time manufacturing challenges. The position also provides an opportunity to take on increasing leadership responsibility as the manufacturing engineering function grows.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Vancouver, BC.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.48 - $57.69/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Vancouver, BC.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Vancouver,BC.

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