Manufacturing Engineer

At MityLite, we design and manufacture high-quality, durable furniture solutions for hospitality, event, and commercial spaces. Our products are trusted worldwide for their strength, style, and versatility—helping customers create exceptional experiences every day.

Due to growth, we’re expanding our team and looking for a Manufacturing Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and driving efficiency. This role is critical to ensuring our operations scale smoothly while maintaining the exceptional quality our customers expect.

If you’re passionate about optimizing processes, boosting equipment uptime, and leading projects that make a measurable impact, this is your opportunity to join a company where your work truly matters.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the Process: Map, measure, and optimize workflows end-to-end; eliminate bottlenecks, reduce cycle times, and lock in repeatable quality.

Prioritize, Then Make It Better: Rapidly troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, and controls systems failures; lead DMAIC activities such as 5-Why / 8D root-cause investigations and implement poke-yoke permanent fixes that stick.

Equipment Uptime Obsession: Perform PM and Capex optimization, spare-parts strategy, and rapid changeover designs; keep OEE and Production capacity trending north.

Project Execution: Scope, budget, and deliver capital projects—such as new fixtures, line optimization layouts, automation cells—on time and under budget.

Data-Driven Decisions: Pull real-time data from Equipment, ERP, and time studies; build Business cases that indicate valuer and priority and trigger action.

Standard Work Creation: Write crystal-clear work instructions, SOP’s, and control plans; train operators and technicians until the process runs itself.

Cross-Functional Muscle: Partner with maintenance techs, operators, quality engineers, and product design to ship perfect product every day.

Plastic Manufacturing Support: Evaluate status of tools in injection molding and plastic extrusion, design and evaluate plastic components using SolidWorks, act as point of technical contact to plastics, mold making and extension suppliers.

Qualifications:

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent.
• 2+ years supporting production equipment and processes in a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on wrench-turner: experience rebuilding gearboxes, aligned conveyors, and programmed basic PLC logic. Looking for a mix of hands on and theoretical experience.
• Mastery of structured problem-solving (5 Whys, Fishbone, Pareto, FMEA).
• Fluent in SolidWorks for fixture design and layout; ERP/MES experience (Nav or SAP, Plex, Epicor, etc.).
• Proven ability to lead operators and techs through change via documentation, training, without hand-holding.

Preferred Skills:

• Automation integration (robots, vision systems, collaborative cells).
• Value-stream mapping and simulation (FlexSim, Arena, or even Excel-based).
• Welding, machining, or assembly fixture design from scratch.
• Six Sigma (DMAIC) Green Belt or higher.

If you live for the sound of a line hitting record throughput because *you* made it happen, let’s talk.