Job Description
Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $90,000–$110,000/year + incentive opportunity
Travel: Approximately 50% (mostly domestic, some international)
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, 401(k) profit sharing, PTO, holidays, parental leave, life/disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, professional development, and other voluntary benefits.
Location: Charlotte, NC
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $90,000–$110,000/year + incentive opportunity
Travel: Approximately 50% (mostly domestic, some international)
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, 401(k) profit sharing, PTO, holidays, parental leave, life/disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, professional development, and other voluntary benefits.
About our Client:
Our client is a precision manufacturing partner bringing together OEMs, CDMOs, and specialized businesses to help bring breakthrough medical device, life sciences, and advanced industrial technologies to market. They combine deep technical expertise with a shared commitment to customer focus, continuous improvement, and collaboration, backed by a shared-ownership model where employees who help create value also share in the company's success. With businesses spanning medical devices, life sciences, precision manufacturing, and advanced industrial technologies, you'll have the chance to work across markets and disciplines. And across every one of them, you'll have real ownership over your work and a direct stake in the outcomes you help create.
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to drive Lean, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence across multiple domestic and international manufacturing facilities. This hands-on role will focus on optimizing manufacturing processes, improving efficiency and capacity, and supporting engineering and manufacturing initiatives across multiple locations. The ideal candidate will have a strong precision machining/CNC background and experience with tight-tolerance components. Experience with CNC turning, milling, screw machines, or miniature gear manufacturing is a plus.
You'll adapt your experience and best practices to work with our leaders and teams, developing consistent approaches that work in practice. This role requires comfort moving between enterprise strategy and hands-on execution, as well as the ability to teach, listen, and influence. You'll build support for change through strong relationships, relevant data, and clear business rationale.
The position will initially be remote for someone based near Charlotte, NC, with an expectation to eventually work from the Charlotte office when not traveling.
Job Duties:
- Develop and improve manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment, and layouts.
- Drive Lean, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence initiatives.
- Support precision CNC machining and tight-tolerance manufacturing.
- Analyze manufacturing issues and implement corrective actions.
- Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales to improve manufacturing methods.
- Support capital equipment, tooling, vendor selection, RFQs, and technology transfers.
- Create manufacturing drawings and sketches using SolidWorks.
- Support quoting and manufacturing cost analysis.
- Develop routings, analyze data, and present recommendations to leadership.
- Promote quality, safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field.
- 4+ years of manufacturing experience with 2+ years of Lean/Continuous Improvement experience.
- Strong CNC machining and precision manufacturing experience.
- Experience with tight-tolerance components, mechanical drawings, and GD&T.
- SolidWorks proficiency.
- Knowledge of manufacturing costs, BOMs, ERP systems, and routings.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Willingness to travel approximately 50% domestically and internationally.
- Valid passport required.
- Lean Six Sigma certification is a plus.
- Medical device, aerospace, or miniature gear manufacturing experience is highly preferred.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Charlotte, NC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$110,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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