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Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer & Tool Room Supervisor
Location: Troy, AL
Fulltime, Direct Hire, Onsite
SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Manufacturing Engineer & Tool Room Supervisor to lead key manufacturing engineering initiatives while overseeing the daily operations of the Tool Room. This dual-role position is critical in driving process improvements, supporting new product introductions, and ensuring the timely delivery of precision tooling, gages and fixtures to support production. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, hands-on leadership, and a strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. This individual will play a pivotal role in optimizing manufacturing processes, supervising toolmakers and technicians, and ensuring seamless collaboration across engineering, maintenance, and production teams.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the process operations, and correct sequencing of these operations, to support the manufacture of quality mechanical components and assemblies.
• Design and develop fixtures, tooling, and gages using Solidworks as the primary CAD system, using best practices including DFM, DFA, DTC and stack analysis. May include the design and development of engineering and production test fixtures. A portion of this effort will require a working knowledge of AutoCad.
• Define the product configuration and part geometry in fully dimensioned 2-D drawings directly linked to 3-D files for each manufacturing operation. A solid understanding of GD&T is a must.
• Manage Bill of Materials, including a full definition of material selection and raw material configuration.
• Ensure proper documentation of design revisions for the full Technical Data Package including CAD, BOM, engineering masters, routings, etc.
• Initiate and participate in cross-functional design reviews to ensure new designs are optimized for manufacturability. Support the development and execution of project timelines.
• Provide technical input to Applications Engineering in support of process improvements to streamline the process from Design to finish product.
• Provide manufacturing floor support processing issues and promote continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work within a team that specifies, evaluates, justifies, and implements capital equipment projects throughout the plants and to continuously strive to evaluate technology as to its application at providing the most efficient process.
• Create Purchase Requisitions for fixture components, materials, special tools and materials requested by Tool Room personnel.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Under limited supervision, designs, fabricates, repairs, and improves tools, jigs, fixtures, simple molds, gauges and dies to the tolerances required for the intended manufacturing processes.
• Must be able to work from engineering drawings, sketches, or other written or oral instructions as well as tool design drawings.
• Maintain, Tooling, Fixturing, Materials, CNC programs in a systematic way to ensure proper execution of processes.
• Participate with planning and purchasing departments to determine internal & external workload capacity.
• Ensure machining tasks are executed in the most effective manner (manual vs. CNC) regarding time, cost, and function.
• Ensure internal quality checks are conducted prior to shipment.

• Assures work areas are organized, clean and hazard free; champions 5S practices.
• Follow up with internal customers regarding toolroom services.
• Responsible for managing the time and attendance system: audits timecards daily, manage PTO for toolroom employees and addresses violations in a timely manner to assure efficient and productive operations.
• Responsible for employee safety. Immediately report any safety concerns to the manager and to EH&S as needed.
• Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communication, coaching, training, and development.
• Implement long-term direct reports/organization plan to increase overall department responsiveness
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Minimum 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience in high volume manufacturing environment. Firearms experience is a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years of Manual Machining experience, surface grinders, Bridgeport, Heat Treatment, Wire & Sinker EDM.
• Strong desire to use and develop program solutions to automate CAD/CAM processes.
• Knowledge of CAD / CAM software. Solidworks & Mastercam preferred.
• Experience in using 3D-model-centric computer aided manufacturing (CAM) principles and the associated techniques to analyze the CAD models as they relate to manufacturability. This includes utilizing the 3D-model to create toolpaths for CNC programming.
• Strong knowledge of GD&T.
• Must be organized and maintain accurate and neat records and files.
• Knowledge of common problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies.
• Experience with MRP Visual system.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Competent in developing systematic solutions.
• Ability to develop product processes

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Required:

• Engineering Degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of mechanical drawing experience related to the design and development of complex mechanical mechanisms.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
Travel will normally be less than 10% (training, equipment development, satellite facility support).