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Manufacturing Engineer

Professional Plastics
Professional Plastics Salary
Orchard, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 10/20/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/16/2027

Position Summary: The Manufacturing Engineer designs, optimizes, and maintains production processes, equipment, and workflows to maximize efficiency, quality, and safety.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: includes the following, as well as other duties that may be assigned.

  • Develop CNC programs for production runs on mills, lathes, and routers
  • Modify existing programs and make manual program adjustments as necessary
  • Troubleshoot issues during the manufacturing process
  • Train on set up, programming, and operation of CNC machines
  • Responsible for design of fixtures and tooling
  • Write setup instruction and tool list to optimize setup time
  • Observe operation of machine on trial run to improve program cycle time
  • Create job travelers and manufacturing operations from material and hardware to outside process
  • Analyze drawings, sketches and designs to determine the best program and process to manufacture precision parts
  • Provide support to engineering team as needed by creating technical drawings and digital models to meet deadlines
  • Assist in the design of lean manufacturing cells to optimize space, use of equipment, material, and personnel

Education/Experience: (Required and preferred educational and experiential qualifications)

  • Bachelor of Science, Mechanical / Industrial Engineering or related field from an accredited university / college or 10 years related experience and/or training
  • 4 years CNC experience
  • 4 years CNC programming experience
  • 4 years Mastercam/SOLIDWORKS experience
  • Formal training in lean manufacturing is desirable

Benefits Package:

  • DailyPay Earned Wage Access
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • 401K Plan with Company Match
  • Basic Life and AD&D
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • Long Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Paid Holidays
  • Morgan Stanley Financial Advice
  • Short Term Disability
  • Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity
  • MetLife Legal Plan
  • Norton LifeLock
  • United Pet Care Discount Program
  • LifeMart Employee Discounts

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands or arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to type, use telephonic devices, and view data on computer screens. The employee is occasionally required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to office equipment and moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, however certain areas of the work environment may have elevated noise levels and require hearing protection.

Job Type: Full-time

Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran

Salary : $26 - $30

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