Manufacturing Engineer I — Contract
Location: West Chester, PA

Help improve the processes and equipment behind medical devices. We’re seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineer I to support production, solve equipment challenges, and advance continuous improvement in a regulated manufacturing environment.

What you’ll do

• Support process and project engineering for medical device manufacturing.
  

• Troubleshoot milling machines, lathes, and other computer-integrated electromechanical systems; conduct failure analysis and help restore reliable operation.
  

• Contribute to scrap reduction, non-conformance investigations, and corrective and preventive actions.
  

• Lead or participate in process improvements using Lean principles and Process Excellence tools.
  

• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and streamline processes.
  

• Support new equipment selection, installation, validation, and employee training.
  

• Coordinate production-line reconfigurations and machine moves, including equipment arrival and support-team scheduling.
  

• Develop project schedules, track costs and progress, prepare status reports, and communicate updates to management.
  

• Help write and update standard operating procedures and train manufacturing personnel.
  

• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, and site support teams while following applicable procedures, regulations, and standards.

What you’ll bring

• A bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing/Industrial, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field; or
  

• An associate degree in an engineering-related field and five years of relevant engineering or technician experience; or
  

• Ten years of relevant experience in an engineering or technician role.
  

• Hands-on equipment troubleshooting and failure-analysis experience.
  

• Strong project-management, organizational, communication, and computer skills.

Preferred experience

• FDA-regulated or ISO-standard manufacturing environments.
  

• SAP, AutoCAD, PTC Creo, or MS Project.
  

• Automated, vision, or material-handling systems.
  

• Metal-cutting equipment such as milling machines, lathes, or grinders.

Work environment and schedule
This role may involve warm, cold, noisy, and moderately oily conditions. Flexibility to support second- or third-shift and weekend operations is needed. The position may also support global projects and require up to 5% domestic travel.

Interested in bringing practical problem-solving and continuous improvement to medical device manufacturing in West Chester? Apply today.

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