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Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer
*Direct hire role with excellent benefits!
Location: Kansas City, MO
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Travel: Minimal
Schedule: Typical hours: 6:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Team & Environment
- Fast-paced, hands-on production environment with a strong emphasis on equipment uptime
Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day manufacturing engineering support focused on the shop floor
- Troubleshoot equipment issues in partnership with maintenance
- Support production operations and ensure machines remain operational
- Train operators and maintenance on equipment and processes
- Drive continuous improvement related to equipment use, reliability, and efficiency
- Support equipment rotation, upgrades, and process optimization
- Maintain a strong on-floor presence (approximately 90% of time)
Stakeholder Interaction
- Maintenance teams (equipment troubleshooting and uptime)
- Production and operations employees
- Other engineers for knowledge sharing and overflow support
- Site leadership and HR/TA partners for planning and support
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience & Background
- 3–5 years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience
- Experience supporting equipment-intensive manufacturing environments
- Strong exposure to shop-floor operations
Core Competencies & Traits
- Highly hands-on and comfortable spending the majority of time on the production floor
- Strong problem-solving skills, particularly around equipment and maintenance issues
- Able to learn new equipment and processes quickly
- Adaptable and resilient in a dynamic, growing operation
- Collaborative team player across operations, maintenance, and engineering
- Self-directed and capable of independently owning floor engineering responsibilities
Specific Experience That Stands Out
- Supporting or owning maintenance-adjacent engineering work
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision (eligible at hire)
- 401(k) with 100% match on first 5% additional 3% company contribution
- Paid time off 9 paid holidays
- Company-paid life insurance (3x salary)
- Short & long-term disability
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
- Employee assistance program
Salary : $85,000 - $95,000