Manufacturing Engineer - UHV Hardware Production Lead

Quantinuum; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead a production line for complex ultra-high-vacuum hardware. This mid-level, full-time role collaborates with technicians to execute builds to schedule, maintain quality, and improve manufacturing processes on the factory floor.

You will own process flows, work instructions, and readiness reviews, and partner with quality, engineering, and supply chain to boost yield, reduce cycle time, and enhance manufacturability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in hardware manufacturing or product industrialization.
• U.S. Person: citizen, permanent resident, or approved refugee/asylee.

Responsibilities

• Lead a production line building complex UHV hardware, with direct accountability for safe, high-quality execution of the build schedule.
• Work with technicians to assemble, integrate, test, troubleshoot, and deliver low-volume, high-complexity hardware on schedule.
• Translate production priorities into daily/weekly work plans; coordinate labor, materials, tooling, documentation, and technical support.
• Own and continuously improve the production-line structure: process flows, assembly sequences, work instructions, build travelers, inspection/test methods, training, readiness criteria.
• Partner with quality to drive process improvements using build data, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, defect trends, cycle time, and yield.
• Collaborate with engineers, physicists, quality and supply chain to resolve issues, implement engineering changes, and improve manufacturability, reliability, throughput, and cost.
• Develop tooling, fixtures, test equipment, and workstation improvements to increase safety, repeatability, ergonomics, and production capacity.
• Travel may be required up to 10%

Skills

Production line leadership

UHV hardware experience

Quality improvement

Lean Six Sigma

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting complex assemblies

Education

Advanced degree in Manufacturing Engineering or related field

Tools

Onshape

Arena

Job description

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead a production line for complex ultra-high-vacuum hardware. This mid-level, full-time role collaborates with technicians to execute builds to schedule, maintain quality, and improve manufacturing processes on the factory floor.

You will own process flows, work instructions, and readiness reviews, and partner with quality, engineering, and supply chain to boost yield, reduce cycle time, and enhance manufacturability.