Project Manufacturing Engineer 2027 - Lehigh Valley, PA

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Lutron, you'll help shape how our industry's leading smart lighting and shading products are built at scale. You'll collaborate with product design, production plant, and tooling teams to design products for high-volume manufacturability, applying DfM and DfA principles to influence new designs.

You'll take ownership of assembly line design and process development and support new products from prototype builds through transfer to long-term facilities, helping create efficient tooling, workstations, and production flows. You'll also collect and analyze process quality data, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and driving improvements that enhance throughput and reliability.  

If you're excited about a career with mentorship, hands-on experience, and exposure across the business, where you can see your work directly impact products used around the world, Lutron is the place to start your journey. 

Manufacturing opportunities are available in multiple locations within the Lehigh Valley. These locations include our Corporate Headquarters in Coopersburg, PA, our production facility in Alburtis, PA, and our warehouse facility in Allentown, PA. 

There are a variety of technical areas throughout the product lifecycle that you could encounter from day one, such as: 

• Application of Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DfM and DfA) principles, and how to provide effective feedback to product design teams throughout design cycle

• Project management skills, particularly related to coordinating logistics and efforts between engineering, operations, and manufacturing plant

• Industry standard techniques and best practices for manufacturing quality improvement, such as Six Sigma

• Assembly process development and optimization, including time studies, production line balancing, and pareto/defect analysis

• Development and effective documentation of standard work procedures and product manufacturing process notebooks

• Specification of requirements for tooling and workstations 

• Collaborating with product design, production plant, and tooling teams to design consumer products for high-volume manufacturability   

• Utilizing Design for Manufacturing (DfM) and Design for Assembly (DfA) concepts to analyze new products

• Executing assembly line design and process development to meet labor and quality goals

• Supporting production of new products, from prototype builds through transfer to a long-term facility

• Collecting and analyzing process quality data for presentation to key stakeholders 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field

• Minimum, cumulative GPA of 3.00 for each degree earned

• 0-3 years' experience in a related field

• You are authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require Lutron to sponsor you for any work visa, such as an H-1B, either immediately or at any time in the future. Lutron does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position

• Willingness to travel up to 10 - 20% of the time for inter-office collaboration

• Willingness and ability to work on-site 5 days per week 

Lutron Electronics' position as the worldwide leader in innovative lighting control and shading solutions has enabled consistent, annual growth. Our company has cultivated a reputation of unsurpassed quality, a broad range of technologies and product offerings, and a strong commitment to servicing our worldwide customers. This has allowed the company to invest in developing new technologies and services, expand our technical capabilities and global presence, and to find and retain the best talent.  Build your career with Lutron where you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while exploring many options for continued growth and education. Make a difference every day in our dynamic, people-centric, technology-driven organization. For more information, view our website at  www.lutron.com. 

Lutron Electronics is an Equal Opportunity - Affirmative Action - Employer. We welcome qualified, motivated applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics