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Manufacturing Engineer

Actalent
Elkridge, MD Other
POSTED ON 9/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/21/2025

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer


Job Description

As a Production Manufacturing Engineer, you will interact with various engineering groups to define, document, analyze, perform, and interpret build requirements and processes for products, systems, components, or modifications. You will guide internal production teams, review manufacturing processes, goals, and current process statuses, and be involved in project planning, product workflow, and the design and planning of manufacturing processes. Additionally, you will provide input into original product design, focusing on the requirements for ultimately manufacturing the product.

Responsibilities

  • Provide manufacturing engineering support during new product development and orchestrate product transition into manufacturing.
  • Offer expertise in fabrication processes for mechanical, electromechanical components, and assemblies.
  • Design and develop assembly tooling as required.
  • Perform DFx Analysis at all product levels, identifying opportunities for assembly improvement and cost reduction.
  • Analyze manufacturing processes and their impact on a product's manufacturing parameters.
  • Assist in supplier analysis, identification, qualification, and implementation.
  • Review, create, and support product/process documentation as appropriate.
  • Provide technical support for product-specific issues at suppliers, monitor supplier processes, collect, analyze, and report data, and initiate corrective actions as required.
  • Participate in failure analysis teams and review and analyze data to drive corrective actions.

Essential Skills

  • 3 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering on established products, NPI of system level products, and process/product improvements.
  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing engineering, or equivalent.
  • Broad manufacturing experience with electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical products.
  • Successful track record of transitioning products into manufacturing (contract manufacturing preferred).
  • Experience in process cost analysis/modeling.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

  • Proficiency in production integration, assembly, BOM management, and Solidworks.
  • Ability to support complex detection systems for both DoD and foreign military.
  • Experience working in a small engineering team environment while supporting a large production space.

Work Environment

This position is onsite in Elkridge, MD, where you will be one of two manufacturing engineers. You will collaborate closely with the operations manager and work alongside both engineering and production teams.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $57.26 - $57.26/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Elkridge,MD.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 16, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

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