Manufacturing Engineer (Machining)

Manufacturing Engineer (Machining)

1ST SHIFT  ·  HEAVY MACHINING  ·  MARINE & DEFENSE

Riverside, Missouri  ·  Full-Time  ·  $90,000 – $105,000 / year +   full benefits

THE SHORT VERSION

We build the machinery that moves ships. Steel plate comes in the door, and we burn it, fit it, weld it, and machine it into finished components that run 40,000 pounds and up for the commercial marine, defense, and mining industries.

We need a Manufacturing Engineer on the machining side — horizontal boring mills, large lathes, and everything that surrounds them. This is a hands-on job. You will be in the office when you need to be and on the floor the rest of the time, with the machines and the people running them.

We are not looking for someone to keep the process running the way it has always run. We have been at this since 1960, and some of what we do is proven and some of it is just old. We want an engineer who can tell the difference — who asks why we do it this way, goes and finds a better method, brings in the technology that makes it possible, and then does the work to make it stick.

WHY YOU WOULD WANT THIS JOB

    Real ownership. Manufacturing Engineering is a team of six. Nobody is going to hand you a narrow slice of one process and tell you to stay in it.

    The parts are enormous. 40,000 pounds and up, low volume, high mix. Every job is a real engineering challenge, and a scrapped part is a big deal — which is exactly why the work matters.

    The work is real. Intercon has been building heavy equipment in Riverside since 1958. Our ATB couplers hold ocean-going tug-and-barge units together in open water and account for half of all US fuel movement by ocean. Our propulsion equipment supports U.S. Navy destroyers, aircraft carriers, and submarines.

    Stability. Nearly 70 years in business, approximately 125 people, and a large backlog in marine and defense.

    You can actually change things. Bring us a better method, a new piece of technology, or a process that should be retired, make the case, and you will get a real hearing. We are small enough that a good idea does not have to survive several layers of approval to happen.

    First shift, and it does not rotate.

    Full benefits: health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with employer contribution; HSA or healthcare FSA; supplemental coverage; paid time off; and tuition reimbursement.

    Relocation assistance is possible for the right candidate.

WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY BE DOING

Owning the machining processes end to end — how the part gets made, how we prove it is right, and how we make it repeatable. In practice, that means:

    CNC programming. Developing, modifying, and reviewing G-code for horizontal boring mills, lathes, and other heavy equipment

    Machine characterization and optimization. Finding out what a machine can actually hold, then building the process around it

    Process documentation and control. PFMEAs, process control plans, work instructions, and engineering and process change control

    Tooling and equipment. Specifying tooling and equipment for efficient, high-quality production, and identifying capital purchases worth making

    Mechanical drawings in support of new and existing products

    Root cause and corrective action. Supporting investigations with your peers and leading the effort to cut scrap, rework, repair, and warranty cost

    Standard work. Creating it, training it, and driving it across shop floor processes

    Finding and bringing in what is next. Watching what is happening in tooling, workholding, automation, probing, metrology, and software, then deciding what is worth trialing here — and building the business case to get it in the door

    Floor layouts and implementation plans for major factory moves

    Technical support across the value stream, working directly with production, quality, suppliers, and customers

You will often lead cross-functional groups of peers from production and quality to get a job out the door on time. Nobody on that team reports to you, so a consistent, analytical, show-your-work approach to decisions is how you get traction.

Requirements

    Bachelor's degree in a related field, with experience in a manufacturing function

    Ability to read and interpret complex drawings

    Thorough understanding of GD&T

    Experience programming CNC controls using G-code

    Real experience with machining, part setup, cutting tools, and materials

    Proficient with Microsoft Office

    Comfortable working with minimal supervision — you will be trusted to set your own priorities

    A real bias toward improvement. “That is how we have always done it” should bother you, and you should be the kind of engineer who goes looking for the better way instead of waiting to be asked.

    Strong interpersonal skills. You will be talking to suppliers, customers, machinists, and engineers, often on the same day.

If you are early in your career, apply anyway. You will notice there is no years-of-experience number on that list, and that is on purpose. A new engineer with a real work ethic, the humility to learn from the machinist who has been running that boring mill for thirty years, and the drive to keep asking why will go further here than a long résumé that stopped being curious a decade ago. Internship or co-op time in a manufacturing environment counts. Tell us what you have built, fixed, or figured out.

Helpful, But Not Required

    Experience with APQP tools

    CAD/CAM software — we use Autodesk Inventor

    Tool path verification and simulation software

    Familiarity with weldments and fit-up processes

    Large-part, long-cycle, or low-volume machining experience

    Time in a defense, marine, or other regulated manufacturing environment

We especially want to hear from you if you know machining cold and want to move into engineering, or you are an engineer coming out of high-volume work and are tired of optimizing the same part for the ten-thousandth time. And if you have ever been the person in the shop pushing for the new method, the new machine, or the new software — and got told no — come tell us what you were trying to do.

WHO YOU WOULD WORK WITH

You would join a Manufacturing Engineering team of six, reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager alongside engineering technicians and a document control and support specialist. Manufacturing Engineering partners closely with Quality Assurance, and both groups report to the VP of Quality and Operational Excellence.

WHERE THIS GOES

Manufacturing Engineering sits at the center of this plant — you will touch every department and every program we run. That is a good place to build from, whether you want to go deeper technically or move toward leadership. If you want to grow, tell us and we will build the path.

THE HONEST PART

This role splits time between an office and a manufacturing floor. On the floor, standard PPE is required and you will be around heavy machinery, cranes, and large-scale parts, with occasional standing, bending, and moving about the floor for extended periods. The shop is hot in July and cold in January.

Our machining operations run two shifts. This position is first shift, but on occasion you will come in early or stay late to support training or a hand-off with second shift.

And one more thing worth saying plainly: change here is earned, not announced. Some of the people on this floor have been machining these parts longer than you have been alive, and they will listen to a good idea — but you will have to make the case, prove it out, and bring them with you. If that sounds like the fun part, you will like it here.

Benefits

·         Paid time off

·         Health insurance

·         Dental insurance

·         Vision insurance

·         Healthcare FSA spending or reimbursement accounts

·         Supplemental insurance through Aflac

·         401K with employer contribution

This is a full-time, safety sensitive position.

Intercontinental Engineering – Manufacturing Corporation is an equal opportunity employer committed to recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or other status protected by applicable law.

ITAR Requirements:  In order to comply with U.S. government regulations applicable to this position, all applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S.,as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(20) or a "protected individual", as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)