Manufacturing Engineer 1

Safran; Carson (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer 1 to strengthen our Industrialization team in Carson, CA. You will support production engineering, document creation, and manufacturability reviews to optimize cost and schedule.

The role emphasizes lean methods, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement in a regulated aerospace setting. You will work with design engineering, quality, and operations to ensure that production plans meet cost, quality, and delivery goals.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in a regulated engineering design or production environment.
• Experience with lean manufacturing principles and basic manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Support production engineering deliverables and manufacturing documentation.
• Assess design for manufacturability to optimize cost, weight, and time to manufacture.
• Assist in evaluating capacity vs program requirements and propose changes to meet objectives.
• Identify potential capital investments and infrastructure needs.
• Review 2D drawings and 3D models for manufacturability and create work instructions.

Skills

LEAN tools

Engineering drawings interpretation

Time management

Problem solving

Independent cross-functional work

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ERP systems

CATIA V5 & Smarteam

Microsoft Office

Job description

Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip.

Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Manufacturing Engineer 1, you'll play a pivotal part on our Industrialization team.

The Manufacturing Engineer 1 assists in maintaining the production process flow and production line structure for design Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Operational Excellence. This role contributes to the operations by supporting production element mainly through Bill of Materials, Routers, and work instructions. This role also contributes to optimizing manufacturing resource usage through continuous improvement.

Summary of Duties

1. Support deliverables during the manufacturing (production) engineering phase such as production documentation, industrial validation process
2. Provide feedback to design engineering to improve product design for ease of manufacturing, optimization of cost, weight reduction and time to manufacture product
3. In product design phase: assist in activities that demonstrate production constraints and opportunities are recognized and addressed - evaluate the current state of industrial capacity and capability relative to program requirements - propose changes to program plans to ensure that production cost, quality and delivery objectives can be met.
4. Assist in identification of capital expense and infrastructure investments.
5. Review basic 2D drawings and 3D models for manufacturability.
6. Perform basic time studies, develop work breakdown structures, develop work instructions
7. Support industrialization metrics in line with Cabin standard KPI's and communicate performance on a regular basis
8. Contribute to costing and Bids and Proposals submitted to customers
9. Use Lean principles in daily work
10. Know and understand regulatory requirements, customer specifications and company specifications.
11. Understand machining, assembly lines, BOM creation, line layout
12. Be capable with most site manufacturing procedures.
13. Understand engineering drawings and 3D models and how they relate to manufacturability.
14. Working knowledge of assembly line and composites manufacturing. Education: Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical field.

Experience

Minimum 1 year related experience in highly regulated engineering design or production environment.

Computer Skills

• Basic understanding of ERP systems
• Basic functional knowledge of CATIA V5 & Smarteam
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Other Skills

• Experience working at an aircraft or other aerospace OEM
• Knowledge of common materials and manufacturing processes used in the aerospace industry
• Proven ability to read and interpret basic engineering drawings and models
• Knowledge of LEAN tools
• Basic organization and communication skills
• Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally with significant oversight and review.
• Basic communication, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
• Basic knowledge of primary processes like CNC machining, Layup and Crush Core