About the role
Job Description Summary
As a Lead Manufacturing Engineer, you will help shape manufacturing strategy and execution for critical forging and casting supply chains for aerospace industry. You will be at the center of efforts to improve design producibility, strengthen raw material readiness, assess manufacturing modality, process development with suppliers, and ensure capacity is in place to meet customer and business commitments. This is a high-impact role for a manufacturing engineer who combines hands-on shop knowledge with the ability to lead cross-functional improvements across engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations. Job Description
We are seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to drive manufacturing readiness for raw materials, which includes execution across producibility, capacity planning, process development and raw material delivery from forging and casting supply chains. In this role, you will partner with engineering, sourcing, supplier quality, operations, and customers to improve manufacturability, assess supply capability, and support delivery performance.
This position is ideal for an experienced manufacturing professional with hands-on knowledge of forging and/or casting operations and practical experience working with forging and/or casting suppliers. The successful candidate will proactively assess hardware and part designs to help determine the most appropriate manufacturing modality, including forging or casting requirements while balancing producibility, supplier capability, quality, delivery, and capacity considerations.
You will play a key role in identifying manufacturing constraints, improving production flow, supporting raw material strategies, and driving process improvements that advance Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost performance.
Essential Responsibilities
Lead manufacturing engineering efforts to improve producibility of part designs across forging and casting supply chains - review designs/drawings to assess manufacturing modality, recommend design changes and determine forging or casting requirements
Support raw material strategy for forgings and castings, including evaluation of supplier capability, process r…
