Manufacturing Engineer

Aristocrat; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aristocrat is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team. You will help optimize production methods while upholding quality, safety, and efficiency across multiple sites.

The role focuses on automating and improving processes, supporting new product introductions, and collaborating with design, operations, and supply chain teams to scale manufacturing globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on industrial experience in designing and developing manufacturing and repair processes.
• Experience with lean manufacturing and operational excellence concepts.
• Strong data-driven root-cause analysis and solution development.
• Excellent data analysis, communication, and project management skills.
• Willing to travel on business requests.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD is highly desired; Power BI and Power Apps are also valued.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on manufacturing engineering benchmarks to drive safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals.
• Develop and modify line layouts, including material flow, waste reduction, and ergonomics.
• Analyse and improve site-wide processes across warehouse, production, and repair areas.
• Champion continuous improvement projects to improve yield, capacity, and capability.
• Provide support for other international sites, including travel to EUIC in Barcelona.
• Build and maintain manufacturing and repair work instructions, routings, and associated processes.
• Contribute to production fixtures development for assembly, handling, and packaging of gaming machines.
• Analyse data to identify trends in build quality and efficiency.
• Apply structured problem-solving techniques (DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why, Eight Disciplines).
• Participate in transitioning a product from concept to mass manufacturing and ensure timely delivery.
• Collaborate with development engineering teams to evaluate process technologies, equipment, and suppliers.
• Perform risk assessments and define mitigations to meet quality specifications.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Data analysis

Project management

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Travel readiness

Creative thinking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Power BI

Power Apps

Job description

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Aristocrat, you will join an energetic team devoted to advancing manufacturing quality and innovation. Our mission is to bring happiness to life through the power of play. We support this by encouraging a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and ongoing improvement. This position presents an outstanding chance to lead our global manufacturing efforts. You will help optimize production methods and maintain top quality, efficiency, and safety standards. Join us and contribute to a team dedicated to crafting world-class gaming products and experiences.

Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) supports the “Make” of the Global Supply Chain by, enabling new product launches, driving manufacturing excellence, and advancing factory capabilities through automation and continuous improvement. The department integrates Lean and Six Sigma practices, structured training systems, New Product Introduction (NPI) phase-gate processes, and smart factory technologies to improve productivity, quality, and scalability across operations. Through collaboration with design engineering, operations, and supply chain teams, AME ensures that manufacturing processes are efficient, standardised, and prepared to support both current production and future innovations.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver on manufacturing engineering benchmarks to drive departmental performance and ensure achievement of both departmental and business-wide safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals.
• Develop and modify line layouts, including material flow, waste reduction, and ergonomics.
• Analyse and improve site-wide processes across warehouse, production, and repair areas. Ensure safety while increasing efficiency in an efficient way. Work with global sites in Las Vegas, Tulsa, Barcelona, and Melbourne to reach world-class quality levels.
• Champion continuous improvement projects to improve yield, capacity, and capability.
• Provide support for other international sites, such as the European Integration Centre (EUIC) in Barcelona, Spain, by working directly and collaboratively with counterparts. This includes travel to the EUIC to examine processes and find opportunities for improvement.
• Build and maintain manufacturing and repair work instructions, routings, and associated processes.
• Contribute to the build, development, and fabrication of production fixtures to aid in the assembly, handling, and packaging of electronic gaming machines and their components.
• Analyse data from various sources to identify trends in build quality and efficiency.
• Provide support to address production and repair issues by applying structured problem-solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why, and Eight Disciplines.
• Participate in the transition of a product from concept to mass manufacturing and ensure timely delivery while meeting quality and safety standards.
• Collaborate with development engineering teams to evaluate various process technologies, equipment builds, and suppliers, and identify/select the best method for mass production.
• Perform risk assessments, identify mitigations, and corrective actions to ensure product compliance and pre-defined quality specifications are achieved.

What We’re looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and/or equivalent experience.
• 5 years minimum hands-on industrial experience in the design and development of manufacturing and repair processes and equipment.
• Demonstrated experience utilising lean manufacturing and operational excellence concepts.
• Ability to develop data driven root cause analyses and solutions.
• Excellent data analysis, communication, and project management skills.
• Willing to travel upon business request.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD is highly desired.
• Proficiency in Power BI and Power App highly desired.
• Solid financial and commercial manufacturing acumen.
• Creative capacity for developing new ways to do things better.
• Hands on technical problem solver.