Manufacturing Engineer

The engineer between the drawing and the part. Half the job is on customer floors with Truwo Partners — taking a design that is nearly ready and making it buildable, at rate, at the tolerance on the print. The other half is on the parts Truwo builds itself: deciding how a part gets made, proving the process, and holding it there. You will have technical direction authority, and you will own the outcome, not the report.

What you will do

• Read a new design for manufacturability before it is frozen: process choice, datum scheme, tolerance realism, what will and won't hold, and say so early, in writing, to the people who drew it.
• Choose and develop the process for a part — machining, sheet, welding, casting, assembly — and prove it: parameter trials, DOE where it earns its keep, recipe lock, work instructions a new operator can follow.
• Decide which dimensions matter, then make them measurable: gauge and fixture design, measurement method, GR&R, first-article inspection against the full drawing.
• Run pilot builds and take a line from first-off to steady state: capability studies, PFMEA and control plans, SPC on the dimensions that matter, yield and scrap brought down with structured problem solving.
• Line work when the line is the problem: takt, balancing, cycle time, capacity models, bottleneck removal.
• Qualify and develop suppliers: audits with teeth, corrective plans with owners and dates, documentation that survives your leaving.
• Work the shift with the customer's production and quality teams — findings become actions the same day, and the customer's people can do it without you by the time you leave.
• Short, clear, written reporting to the customer and to Truwo. If it isn't written, it didn't happen.

What you bring

The minimum. Without these the role will be hard to do well.

• A mechanical or production engineering degree, or equivalent evidence.
• Three or more years in manufacturing or manufacturing design engineering, with at least one product or programme taken from prototype to steady-state production.
• You have owned a process, a station or a line — not observed one.
• Depth in at least one process family (machining, sheet metal, welding, casting or mechanical assembly) and working knowledge of the others.
• Reading a drawing to the tolerance block, and GD&T well enough to argue with a designer about a datum.
• Fluency with the quality toolkit as tools rather than paperwork: SPC and capability (Cp/Cpk), GR&R, PFMEA, control plans, 8D or A3.
• Comfortable in CAD for fixtures, gauges and process layouts — SolidWorks, Fusion, NX or Creo.
• The temperament for the floor: patient, direct, unbothered by noise and heat, and able to tell a plant head something he doesn't want to hear.
• Willingness to travel — around 30%, to plants across India, sometimes for weeks at a time.

Good to have

Recommended, not required. Tell us which of these you have.

• Tolerance stack-up (worst-case and statistical) applied to a real assembly, and the fixture or process change that came out of it.
• Automation and fixturing design: pneumatics, sensors, poka-yoke, simple end-of-arm tooling.
• Stainless and high-alloy fabrication: weld procedure qualification, distortion control, surface finish and passivation.
• Cosmetic and surface-finish specification and inspection: Ra, visual standards, boundary samples.
• Lean or TPS practice beyond the vocabulary: standard work, kaizen you led, a 5S that lasted.
• Experience standing up a new line or a new supplier from an empty bay.

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