Manufacturing Engineering Technician
Location: St. Louis, MO (Overland area)
Job Type: Temp-to-Hire
Salary: $25.00 per hour
We are seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineering Technician to support manufacturing operations, quality improvement, and new product introduction activities. This position serves as an important link between design engineering and the production floor, helping ensure products, processes, tooling, and assembly methods are practical, repeatable, cost-effective, and capable of meeting quality requirements.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working with engineering drawings, production teams, tooling, process improvement, and root-cause problem solving in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Troubleshoot product, design, material, and manufacturing-process issues using engineering drawings, production data, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Review product designs, drawings, tolerances, and prototypes to evaluate manufacturability, assembly efficiency, process capability, quality, and cost.
• Develop, improve, and document manufacturing process flows, work methods, layouts, tooling, and material movement.
• Support continuous-improvement efforts focused on safety, quality, production efficiency, consistency, and defect reduction.
• Assist with New Product Introduction activities, including process planning, initial production runs, tooling and equipment requirements, process validation, and production transitions.
• Participate in or support PFMEA activities, quality planning, defect-prevention initiatives, corrective actions, and non-conformance investigations.
• Coordinate manufacturing aspects of engineering changes, including BOM impacts, tooling or process updates, implementation planning, and communication with affected departments.
• Support capital equipment and tooling projects by helping define production requirements, evaluate solutions, and coordinate implementation.
• Partner with engineering, quality, manufacturing leadership, supervisors, operators, procurement, and suppliers to resolve issues and improve manufacturability.
• Help maintain clear production documentation, work instructions, and process standards as needed.
Required Skills & Competencies
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, dimensions, tolerances, and technical specifications.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, process-flow mapping, and production operations.
• Familiarity with root-cause analysis, corrective action, continuous improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, and/or PFMEA principles.
• Practical understanding of tooling, inspection methods, production equipment, and manufacturing process capability.
• Strong data-driven problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams and shop-floor personnel.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on, in-office manufacturing environment.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.
• One to three or more years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, quality engineering, new product introduction, or a related production environment preferred.
• Relevant hands-on production, machining, assembly, quality, or tooling experience will be considered.
