Laborup

Engineering Manager

Laborup  •  Phoenix, AZ (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

The Engineering Manager leads engineering resources and technical activities within a precision machining environment, supporting both existing production and new product introduction.

This role provides technical leadership across CNC machining, manufacturing engineering, process development, tooling/fixturing, and production support The Engineering Manager works closely with operations, quality, programming, and customers to ensure complex machined components can be produced safely, efficiently, and consistently to specification.

Responsibilities:

  • Directs department activities to design new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and develop test procedures.
  • Resolves problems using solutions that involve new techniques, technologies, or concepts.
  • Analyzes technology trends, human resource needs, and market demand to plan projects.
  • Confers with management, production, and marketing staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.
  • Forecasts operating costs of department and directs preparation of budget requests.
  • Advanced skills with Mastercam, Gibbs Cam, Espree or other CAM software, and CNC machine programming, setup, and operations.
  • Ability to machine parts to specification of .1mm to .0005mm tolerances working from CAD files, mechanical drawings, and sketches
  • Ability to read, understand, and create technical mechanical drawings, sectional views, part notes, dimensions, and tolerances
  • Expertise calculating/estimating machine cycle times, determining cost effective operation sequences, machinability, and feasibility

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, machining, or a related precision manufacturing environment.
  • 3+ years of engineering leadership or people-management experience.
  • Strong understanding of CNC machining, manufacturing processes, tooling, fixturing, and process development.
  • Experience supporting high-mix, low-volume and/or tight-tolerance machined components.
  • Proven ability to lead new product introduction (NPI), first article, prototype, and production-launch activities.
  • Strong knowledge of engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerances, and manufacturability.
  • Experience troubleshooting machining and production issues using root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving methods.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with CNC programmers, machinists, quality, operations, customers, and suppliers.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop technical teams while managing multiple priorities.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent hands-on manufacturing experience may be considered.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision
  • 401k
  • PTO
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About Laborup

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”

Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.

Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.

We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.

We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Knoxville
Year Founded
Unknown
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