640-Manufacturing Engineer-General

Post Date

Nov 17, 2023

Location

San Antonio,
Texas

ZIP/Postal Code

78226
US
Sep 14, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Engineer

Req #

VMS-BOE-61407-1

Pay Rate

$40 - $49 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer 1

Position Responsibilities:
Coordinates and implements new engineering principles theories advanced technologies and concepts.
Validates and ensures production readiness of solutions to complex problems.
Leads development and implements manufacturing plans.
Resolves technical problems that would significantly affect performance cost or schedule.
Interfaces with academia professional associations partners other companies suppliers integrated product teams and customers to optimize product definition development.
Develops identifies and implements conceptual designs and maintains the program architecture for build.
Develops and implements cost effective and improved processes for Lean production and tooling methodologies.
As a member of an integrated product team integrates technical solutions to ensure process and product reliability.
Implements Lean principles and technologies. Improves product development and execution performance.
Analyzes design/build concepts to evaluate a producible design/build definition. Investigates alternative solutions to meet the producibility requirements.
Assesses process capabilities on the product definition at a team level.
Assesses design features for feasibility of manufacturing processes and reviews geometric dimensioning and tolerance for manufacturing capabilities.
Creates a base line for continuous improvement and confirms that design features are compatible with selected manufacturing processes.
Assists in providing input to the program plan to ensure that producibility activities and deliverables are incorporated.
Assists in providing resource estimates for producibility functions to the team leader.
Calculates the effects of tolerances locating methods and assembly sequences.
Reviews and confirms that process capabilities match variation analysis requirements.
Evaluates manufacturing data and analyzes change proposals for variation impacts.
Coordinates dimensional requirements across internal team members.
Supports the development and implementation of production and tooling methodologies.
Participates as a member of an Integrated Product Team IPT to support the integration of technical solutions across multiple disciplines.
Supports the development identification and implementation of conceptual designs and maintenance of the program architecture for build.
Participates in the implementation of manufacturing plans. Investigates technical problems.
Participates in the implementation of Lean principles and technologies. Interfaces with IPTs and internal customers to develop products skills knowledge and experience.

Basic Qualifications Required Skill/Experience:
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited course of study in Engineering or engineering technology by December 2023.
  • This position will require the ability to obtain customer approval for access. Dual citizenship or prior citizenship of any other country may preclude ability to obtain access. A 3rd party background check relating to personal and business finances residences employment history past drug use prior military service and criminal behavior will be conducted.

    Preferred Qualifications Desired Skills/Experience:
  • Experience in aircraft structures structures assembly fastening technology or tooling
  • Ability to collaborate with both the engineering and the mechanics on the factory floor
  • Experience in CAD systems such as CATIA or equivalent solid modeling experience
  • Ability to learn in a fast-paced environment
  • Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.