Manufacturing Engineer - (CNC)

About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.

Opportunity To Grow Your Career Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.

Impact In This Role

Your role as a Manufacturing Engineer will be to support and drive improvement to our critical manufacturing functions. We have two sets of customers—our builders, who order parts through us, and our manufacturing partners, who manufacture and assemble these parts—and you’ll be consistently working at the interface between the two. At Fictiv, we believe in creating the world’s premier platform for hardware manufacturing, and you’ll be playing a critical role in making that happen.

In your role as the Manufacturing Engineer, you will be reviewing and analyzing the manufacturability and costs associated with CNC machining submitted by our builders. In this role, you’ll also be using your Mechanical Engineering background and knowledge of manufacturing processes in order to determine what design changes may need to be made to our builders’ design specifications in order to meet their needs. By developing highly competitive proposals and quotations that meet the requirements called out by our customers, you will be assisting in bringing products to market faster in a wide range of industries (and helping to accelerate Fictiv’s growth)

You will report to the Costing and DFM lead.

What You’ll Be Doing

Package review - Study the package provided by Sales to determine scope of work, manufacturing feasibility & Lead time details

Should be able to define best suited manufacturing process, machine selection, cycle time calculations & setup costs

Should be able to generate Should cost using in house calculators & Fictiv's software recommendations

Manufacturing Partners quote scrutiny. To check whether the provided quote is correct in terms of optimized raw material, machining & secondary processes costs

Should be able to negotiate with Manufacturing partners on quotes provided and get the best costs out to ensure a win win situation

Should be able to understand secondary process eg Anodising, Zinc plating, Chemical conversion coatings with respect to their type, class, service class, methods etc

Preparing RFQ package to Manufacturing Partners referring to capability & capacity plans

Calculator Generations - Use own machining expertise & understanding of process cost drivers to develop cost calculators

DFx Feedback - Should be able to study the 3D Model, 2D prints to determine the manufacturability of the part & highlight key points that involve a design change recommendation

Automation Feedback - Provide feedback to Quoting SOftware team to improve accuracy of automated quoting of our manufacturing services

Packaging costs - Should be able to develop packaging concept & provide the same to Logistics team for generating Shipping costs

Follow up with Sales for Quoted RFQ's feedback on weekly basis & also provide feedback to Manufacturing partners about quoted RFQ's status

Work with CFT in evaluating value deals for project management validation, project de risking, quality documentation

Should be able to handle Assembly product structure

Help clear technical queries during MP Quoting

Maintaining reports for Opportunities quoted won/lost, conversion ratio etc

Participate in Manufacturing Partners QBR with CFT to address cost issues, conversion ratios etc

Desired Traits

6-8 years of relevant work experience

Meticulous, detail oriented, inclination for documentation

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English required

Self-starter, manages time efficiently, able to complete work in a timely manner without active supervision

Enjoys sharing knowledge and teaching others about manufacturing processes

4-year Mechanical Engineering degree

3D model & 2D print review with good proofreading capabilities

5, 4, 3 Axis Milling, Turn Milling, Grinding, Gear hobbing, Spark & wire EDM, Gun Drilling processes

Strong GD & T background

CNC machines specifications/technical data

CNC programming for milling & turning

Turning & Rotating tools selection , grades of inserts for turning & Milling, Insert specification

Work holding devices for CNC Turning & Milling centers

Recommended cutting conditions for work materials classified by ISO

Materials (Chemical compositions, Mechanical & Thermal properties) : Stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, aluminum alloys, Tool steel Titanium plastics and their associated ASTM, ISO, IS, DIN & MIL standards.

Heat treatment : Normalizing, Tempering, Annealing, Case hardening, & Quenching

Secondary processes : Anodising, chemical conversion coatings, Zinc plating, Nickel plating, tin plating, Bead blasting & their associated standards eg MIL , ASTM , ISO

Secondary processes : Painting & Powder coating

Inspection instruments & methods to help improve DFM feedback

PPAP documentation

ISO 9001 : 2015 Documentation

AS9100D documentation

Proficient written & oral communication skills

Excel & Google sheet expertise

Undergone training on cutting tools through Sandvik, Kennametal etc

Production costing background

Packaging estimation : concept to development

Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon. We’re actively seeking teammates who:

Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.

Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.

Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.

Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.

Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.