2300 Vierling Drive West, Shakopee, Minnesota 55379 United States of America **Why Oatey?** Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network comprised of industry leading family of companies: Oatey, Cherne, Keeney, Quick Drain, Hercules, Dearborn, Oatey Canada, William H. Harvey, Masters, Contact, Belanger, Lansas, and Durgo. At Oatey, we're doing big things - and by joining us, you'll have the chance to do big things too. You can build a strong career in an innovative, inclusive, high-performance environment, with the confidence that your company cares - about you, our customers and our world. Ready to make an impact in a place where you matter? - **Position Summary** This position supports safe, efficient, and reliable production by improving and developing machines, tools, equipment, and manufacturing processes. The role provides a combination of daily production line support and project-based engineering work, including troubleshooting safety, quality, and productivity issues and implementing longer-term process and equipment improvements. This position works closely with Manufacturing Engineering leadership, Production, Maintenance, Safety, Quality, operators, and external vendors to ensure operational goals are consistently met. **Position Responsibilities** + Provide daily production and equipment support by diagnosing safety, quality, and productivity issues and coordinating with Maintenance and Production teams to resolve equipment or process concerns. + Lead or support engineering projects to improve manufacturing machines, tools, equipment, and processes while ensuring solutions meet safety, quality, productivity, and reliability requirements. + Develop, modify, and improve tooling, fixtures, machine components, and equipment as needed to support production and continuous improvement initiatives. + Create and maintain technical documentation, including safe operating procedures, standard work, target production rates, technical drawings, and process documentation. + Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, equipment manuals, and production data to support troubleshooting, equipment improvements, and process development. + Investigate equipment failures and performance issues to identify root causes and recommend or implement corrective actions in partnership with Maintenance, Production, Safety, and Quality. + Apply lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles to improve safety, quality, productivity, reliability, and standardization across manufacturing operations. + Estimate project costs, obtain quotes, evaluate vendor proposals, and present recommendations for equipment, tooling, process, and facilities-related projects. + Prepare and maintain project documentation, including RFQs, quote comparisons, purchase request authorization documentation, project timelines, vendor information, and other required project records. + Coordinate project execution with Maintenance, Production, Safety, Quality, and external vendors to ensure projects are implemented safely, effectively, and with minimal disruption to production. + Support equipment installation, startup, troubleshooting, and validation activities for new or modified equipment and processes. + Use 3D CAD and related software to design, modify, document, and support tooling, fixtures, parts, and manufacturing equipment improvements. + Partner with production operators and supervisors to gather feedback, validate process changes, improve standard work, and ensure engineering solutions are practical and effective. + Support multiple production lines and departments through cross-functional collaboration and prioritization of competing production and project needs. + Provide occasional on-call or off-shift support for urgent equipment, process, or production issues. + Maintain a working environment that supports safety, teamwork, communication, continuous improvement, and positive morale. + Perform other duties as assigned. **Knowledge, Skills, and Experience** + 0-5 years of manufacturing engineering, technical, or related manufacturing experience. + Intermediate knowledge of 3D CAD software, preferably SolidWorks. + Ability to design, modify, and support tooling, fixtures, parts, and equipment improvements. + Advanced troubleshooting skills, including the ability to diagnose equipment issues, identify root causes, and develop practical corrective actions. + Working knowledge of manufacturing equipment systems, including pneumatics, hydraulics, PLC-based systems, sensors, switches, and basic automated machine elements. + Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, equipment manuals, and process documentation. + Familiarity with lea