Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer - Plastics

Technical Degree Required

Akron, OH

401K, bonus potential and profit sharing!

Accelerate your career in a stable, non-automotive environment backed by a $3.5M automation upgrade, 80% hands-on floor time, true work-life balance, and zero corporate red tape.

➡️ Advanced Automation Environment: Drive innovation following a $3.5M upgrade in new molding equipment and automated systems.

➡️ No On-Call Burnout: Protect your personal time with a steady 45-hour average week and virtually no weekend shifts.

➡️ 80% Floor Time: Maximize your engineering impact where it matters most, spending the majority of your time on hands-on technical problem-solving.

➡️ Non-Automotive Stability: Benefit from a predictable product line and a highly tenured team outside the volatile automotive sector.

➡️ Independent Company, Big Impact: Enjoy the backing of a privately held firm focused on long-term funding and employee career growth.

➡️ Direct Access to the President: Collaborating daily with an on-site President means your ideas are heard and projects are fast-tracked without corporate red tape.

Privately held organization is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee support production and have diverse engineering responsibilities in a fast-paced injection molding facility. Daily, you will report to the President and will have the following responsibilities:

• Support production lines while increasing efficiencies and decreasing scrap
• Complete projects related to root cause analysis and troubleshooting downtime
• Utilize 2D and 3D modeling to improve line layouts and design fixtures and gauges
• Assist with new product activities, documentation and project management
• Troubleshoot mechanical and basic electrical issues
• Communicate with operations and production associates to improve KPIs and production initiatives
• Work to improve current engineering designs
• Assist with creating work instructions and other manufacturing documentation
• Complete tooling troubleshooting and work with external tool shops
• Support automation improvements
• Initiate cost justification on new projects and equipment
• If not immediately, in the future overseeing capital equipment projects, including monitoring timelines and budgets
• Other duties directed by engineering management

The company is seeking a candidate who enjoys spending up to 80% of their day on the manufacturing floor. Candidates should be able to take ownership of projects, handle multiple projects and changing priorities, be flexible with work requirements and have a positive attitude. Qualified individuals will have the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, work under pressure and have a strong ability to solve problems and improve processes.

The company offers bonus potential, profit sharing, 401K, medical benefits, short-term and long-term disability, paid holidays, vacation, and life insurance.

REQUIREMENTS for the Manufacturing Engineer:

1. A minimum of an associate's degree, a bachelor's degree in a technical field, ideally Mechanical Engineering, is highly preferred

2. At least 2-5 years of similar manufacturing and/or process engineering experience

3. Experience working in plastic or rubber injection, blow or compression molding

4. Strong continuous improvement background

5. Project management of timelines

6. Strong mechanical aptitude

7. Experience improving part designs

8. 2D/3D modeling experience

9. Microsoft Office, including Excel

Skills preferred but NOT required:

1. PLCs and automation

2. Tooling design review

3. Budget management

Reasons to work for this organization:

➡️ Privately held company with the President on site daily

➡️ Non-automotive company

➡️ They have added new molding machines, a $3.5M investment

➡️ Good work/life balance, averaging up to 45 hours per week and minimal weekends

➡️ Not a complex product line

➡️ Opportunity for growth

➡️ Excellent tenure among salary staff