Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Lexington Medical, Inc.; Bedford; On-site; GBP 86,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Lexington Medical, Inc. is hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for its Bedford, MA headquarters. The role leads a small team, optimizes proprietary equipment, supports NPI, and drives continuous improvement across manufacturing lines.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in advanced manufacturing, a mechanical engineering degree, and proven ability to mentor peers while solving complex problems and coordinating cross-functional hand-offs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• 4+ years of hands-on engineering experience in advanced manufacturing.
• Proven track record of improving production metrics through engineering interventions.
• Ability to mentor and empower a team to act decisively while maintaining quality.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage a small team of engineers and technicians.
• Debug and optimize complex proprietary equipment and perform root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate product and equipment introduction with change control on the manufacturing floor.
• Lead efforts to detect, address quality and yield issues and balance quick fixes with long-term solutions.
• Provide practical guidance to technicians while aligning with R&D, quality, and operations.

Skills

Team leadership

Root cause analysis

Manufacturing engineering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

PLCs

Automated fixtures

Job description

Company Overview:

Lexington Medical, Inc.is a medical device company developing and manufacturing minimally invasive surgical stapling solutions in the Boston area. With the highest standards in design engineering and smart manufacturing, our team delivers disruptive technology to healthcare providers, improving surgical outcomes for patients in a thriving $6B+ surgical stapler market.

Rooted in a talent-dense culture, we are committed to innovation, foster continuous growth, and achieve great heights together. At Lexington Medical, Inc., you will have the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of patients worldwide and thrive in a fast-growing MedTech company.

Role Overview:

We are hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team at Lexington Medical, Inc. in Bedford, MA headquarters. Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing, you will be a technical leader in Lexington Medical's onsite production spaces, responsible for proprietary equipment optimization, NPI, and continuous improvement projects. This role manages a small team of early career manufacturing engineers and technicians, each responsible for supporting the manufacturing line for part of the product portfolio. This role works typical business hours Monday to Friday, with some need to be remotely available during evenings as questions may come up from second shift production supervisor.

This is an ideal opportunity for a high-performing manufacturing engineer ready to step into a people management role, while remaining deeply technical.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technicalmentorshipand peoplemanagementto a small teamwhorefine and support existing equipment, design andmaintainprocesses, and develop fixturing.You willbe responsible fortheoutput andprofessional growth of your direct reports.
• Understand, debug, and alter complex proprietary equipment (designed by our own in-house automation team).You will be a technical escalation point for your team and must feel comfortable getting hands-on to perform root cause analysis.
• Coordinate product and equipment introduction and change control processes on the manufacturing floor, developing systems to ensure smooth R&D to operations hand-offs.
• Own technical excellence and systemic integrity across all product manufacturing lines. You will lead and organize your team to detect and address quality or yield issues, guiding them in the balance between rapid-response 'firefighting' and long-term solutions for persistent issues.
• Provideclear,practicalguidance to productiontechnicianswhile also collaboratingon high-level strategywiththeR&D, quality, and operations departments of the company.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electricalengineeringor equivalent area of study.
• 4+ years ofhands‑onengineering experience supporting advanced manufacturing
• Proven success improving production metrics through intelligent design,processimplementation/augmentation, or other means.
• Ability to empower a team to act decisively and take calculated technical risks to keep production moving.You have done thisasa mentor, even if youhaven'tbeen a formal direct people manager.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Strong problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and analytical thinking.
• Experience working with automated or semi‑automated fixtures, especially a working knowledge of PLCs is useful, but not required.

Company Overview:

Lexington Medical, Inc.is asurgical stapling companybased inBedford, MA, developingsmart surgical technologyforminimally invasive procedures.We're hiringtop engineersandmedical device sales professionalsto help us grow and improve outcomes for patients worldwide.

Salary Range

$115,000-$130,000 USD