Principal Manufacturing Engineer

About the company

Our client is an advanced manufacturing company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical expert in manufacturing engineering, spending most of your time on-site at production facilities. You will look for weaknesses from product design through shop-floor output and put lasting fixes in place. The work involves balancing quality, cost and delivery time while helping local teams build processes that can grow.

What you'll do

- Work on-site at machine shops as the lead technical resource, partnering with local leaders and teams to evaluate and improve operations.

- Apply design-for-excellence thinking early so that manufacturability, quality, sourcing and reliability concerns are resolved before they reach the shop floor.

- Weigh the trade-offs of manufacturing decisions against quality, customer cost, lead time and supply chain scalability.

- Support new products as they move from initial design review to a steady, well-tuned production run.

- Pressure-test existing processes and convert undocumented, experience-based knowledge into standard practices that can be reused across several sites.

- Coach site teams and give them practical methods and guidance to scale on their own.

What we're looking for

- 7 to 10 years of manufacturing engineering experience.

- A record of leading cross-functional improvement efforts that produced measurable gains in output, yield, delivery time or cost.

- Experience finding and closing gaps at any stage of the manufacturing lifecycle.

- Bachelor's degree in engineering.

- Hands-on experience applying design-for-excellence methods.

- Advanced skills in GD&T and tolerance analysis, including stack-ups, reading drawings and spotting over-constrained requirements.

- Solid understanding of how machining and finishing processes, materials and variation influence part quality and yield.

- Familiarity with standard production launch and risk-review practices used in precision manufacturing.

- Must be a US person.

- Willingness to travel 60% to 80% to on-site facilities.

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 160,000 to 190,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- Remote (US)

- Full-time