Manufacturing Engineer: High-Volume Process & Automation

Helion; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO 31 days

Paid holidays

401(k) match

Disability & life

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Helion, based in Everett, WA, seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production process for in-house capacitors at the Everett facility. This onsite role reports to the Factory Development Manager and involves collaborating with Supply Chain, Production, Engineering, and Test Operations to meet aggressive throughput goals.

Responsibilities include creating rate-based assembly processes, leading cross-functional projects to improve floor layouts, tooling, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Eng or related field.
• 2+ years of experience developing and improving production systems.
• Hands‑on engineering or manufacturing experience in rate‑based, and high‑volume manufacturing.
• Experience communicating with and influencing partners across organizational lines.
• Cradle‑to‑grave ownership of complex engineering or production scopes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement rate-based assembly processes with support from Production and Engineering.
• Manage interdisciplinary projects to increase rate and throughput of capacitor line (floor layout, tooling, build cells, large-scale equipment).
• Help develop new business processes such as non-conformance management, process control, process safety, and asset maintenance to grow production line and build the foundation for high-volume production.
• Gather data (labor hours, cycle times, fallout) to identify production bottlenecks, and propose and deploy solutions (design changes, process changes, equipment, automation).
• Identify high return-on-investment capabilities, including capital equipment and software capabilities that improve manufacturing processes, partnering with Production, Finance, Operations, and Facilities teams.
• Collaborate on development of future processes in parallel with supporting and enabling higher output on current production line.

Skills

Rate-based manufacturing

High-volume manufacturing

Cross-functional collaboration

Cradle-to-grave ownership

Hands-on engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering

Job description

Helion, based in Everett, WA, seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production process for in-house capacitors at the Everett facility. This onsite role reports to the Factory Development Manager and involves collaborating with Supply Chain, Production, Engineering, and Test Operations to meet aggressive throughput goals.

Responsibilities include creating rate-based assembly processes, leading cross-functional projects to improve floor layouts, tooling, and