{"id":847003,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hyliion-senior-manufacturing-engineer","title":"Senior Manufacturing Engineer","company":{"id":678876,"name":"Hyliion","domain":"hyliion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hyliion","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":92000,"max_usd":174000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":6333},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AS9100","optional":false},{"name":"CATIA","optional":false},{"name":"Kanban","optional":false},{"name":"Siemens NX","optional":false},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-10T16:32:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T12:19:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":61,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":61},"description":"Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.\nJob Purpose\nThe Senior Manufacturing Engineer serves as the senior technical authority for assembly process and equipment design within the Industrialization team. This position designs the assembly lines, fixtures, and material flow systems that convert KARNO prototype and development builds into repeatable, scalable production operations - and then systematically removes waste, labor content, and variation from those operations.\nWorking closely with industrialization leadership, design engineering, production, quality, and supply chain, the Senior Manufacturing Engineer owns the most complex assembly value streams end to end: line and station design, fixture and tooling design, material presentation and handling, process qualification, and continuous waste reduction. This position sets the technical standard for how assembly processes are designed and documented at Hyliion, provides mentorship and design review for other manufacturing engineers, and is accountable for measurable improvement in cycle time, first-pass yield, labor content, and ergonomics across the assembly areas.\nAI at Hyliion\nAt Hyliion, AI is core to how we work. We equip every team member with leading AI tools and count on you to use them - to move faster, solve harder problems, and help us realize the full potential of KARNO technology for the world.\nDuties and Responsibilities\nAssembly Line and Cell Design: Design assembly lines, cells, and workstations for KARNO core, module, and subassembly operations. Establish work sequencing, balance work content to takt, define station layouts and footprints, and design lines that accommodate planned rate increases rather than requiring rebuild to reach them.\n Fixture, Jig, and Tooling Design: Design assembly and inspection fixtures, jigs, and tooling from concept through qualification. Own datum and locating strategy, tolerance stack-up and GD&T, error-proofing (poka-yoke) features, and fixture qualification including repeatability and gage R&R studies. Review and approve fixture designs produced by other engineers.\nMaterial Handling and Flow Optimization: Design material presentation and handling systems that put the right part at the point of use in the right orientation - kitting strategy, cart and rack design, sequencing, kanban and pull loops, and travel distance and motion reduction. Partner with Supply Chain and Production Control on line-side stocking, min/max levels, and WIP control.\nWaste Reduction in Assembly Operations: Systematically identify and eliminate waste across assembly operations - motion, waiting, rework, overprocessing, transport, and excess inventory. Reduce labor content and cycle time per unit through standard work, work sequencing, changeover reduction, error-proofing, and station design. Quantify the value of each change before implementation and verify the result afterward.\nPrototype Development and Production Scaling: Collaborate with design engineering to develop prototype build processes and transition them to efficient, repeatable production-scale operations, including cross-site process transfer between the Milford, OH and Cedar Park, TX facilities.\nProcess Development and Optimization: Design, develop, implement, and qualify manufacturing processes for engine, generator, electric machine, and precision electromechanical assembly operations, including processes involving high-voltage systems, sealed pressure systems, and additively manufactured components.\nProcess Documentation and Control: Author and maintain the process documentation set - PFMEAs, control plans, work instructions, travelers, and routings - and ensure the manufacturing BOM structure reflects how the product is actually built. Verify on the floor that the documented process is the process being followed.\nTechnical Leadership and Mentorship: Serve as the subject matter expert for assembly process and fixture design. Provide technical guidance to production teams, mentor and develop manufacturing engineers and technicians, lead design reviews, and represent Manufacturing Engineering in engineering design reviews with the standing to influence design for manufacturability and hold configuration stability.\nCapital Equipment and Automation: Specify, justify, procure, install, and qualify capital equipment, semi-automated assembly aids, and material handling equipment. Build the business case, run the vendor selection, and own installation and process qualification through to validated production use.\nAdditive Manufacturing: Integrate additive manufacturing technologies into production processes where applicable, including design and process considerations specific to additively manufactured assemblies.\nProblem-Solving and Root Cause Analysis: Lead root cause analysis and corrective action for assembly process and quality issues using 5-Why, 8D, DOE, and statistical methods. Drive corrective actions to verified closure rather than disposition.\nProject Management: Manage cross-functional industrialization projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and objectives are met, and escalating early with a recommendation attached.\nSafety and Ergonomics: Design workstations, fixtures, and material handling that support safe work - reach, lift, posture, tool access, and energy control. Participate actively in hazard identification, near-miss reporting, and LOTO and electrical safety discipline.\nAdditional duties and responsibilities as assigned, needed, or required for the business.\nQualifications\nReasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nQualifications include:\n Education, Experience and CertificationsBachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering (or related field) required.\nAdvanced Technical or Business degree beneficial.\n5+ years of experience in a manufacturing engineering role, with significant exposure to engine, genset, electric motor, or precision electromechanical assembly operations.\nDemonstrated ownership of assembly line and cell design, from concept layout through installed and qualified production use.\nDemonstrated depth in fixture, jig, and tooling design - designed, built, qualified, and iterated, not specified and delegated.\nExperience taking prototype and low-volume builds into repeatable production processes.\nFamiliarity with business case drivers and value creation. Ability to objectively compare and rationalize options for the path forward.\nAerospace or other precision manufacturing industry experience is highly preferred.\nLean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt) beneficial.\n\n Skills and AbilitiesExpert-level command of assembly process and equipment design: line layout and balancing, station and workstation design, fixture and tooling design, error-proofing, and process qualification.\nProficiency in 3D CAD required, with Siemens NX strongly preferred - NX is our design platform, and native fluency accelerates contribution meaningfully. Candidates with strong proficiency in another major platform (SolidWorks, CATIA, Creo, Inventor, or equivalent) will receive full consideration and are expected to develop working NX proficiency within the first several months; demonstrated willingness and aptitude to learn NX is required.\nFluency in tolerance stack-up analysis and GD&T, and the ability to read, interpret, and challenge engineering drawings, BOMs, ECOs, and specifications.\nDemonstrated skill in material handling and flow design - point-of-use presentation, kitting, kanban and pull systems, line-side stocking, and travel distance and motion reduction.\nPractical command of waste identification and elimination in assembly operations, including time study and work measurement, standard work development, changeover reduction, and labor content analysis.\nExperience with DOE, gage R&R, capability studies, and formal process qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ or equivalent).\nDemonstrated experience implementing automation and semi-automated assembly aids into production processes.\nExperience with custom fabrication, engine and generator assembly, and electric motor or electric machine assembly processes.\nProficiency with manufacturing execution systems (MES) and ERP routing and BOM structures; PLM experience (Teamcenter or equivalent) beneficial.\nKnowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies applied in practice rather than in theory.\nFamiliarity with automotive or aerospace industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., QS9000, ISO 9001, AS9100, NADCAP).\nExperience with additive manufacturing (3D printing) beneficial.\nAbility to mentor engineers and technicians, lead design reviews, and influence cross-functional partners without direct authority.\nComfort operating in a pre-commercial environment where product configuration is still changing and the process must be built rather than inherited.\n\nRole Classification and Working Conditions\nThis is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.\nPhysical/Other Requirements\nAbility to stand and walk for extended periods, access equipment in confined or elevated positions, and occasionally lift and move materials up to 40 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.\nCompliance with all site PPE and safety requirements is mandatory.\nTemporary extended on-site oversight for new process development preferred.\nOngoing travel to company engineering and production sites up to 30%.\nWe are not accepting candidates who require sponsorship for this role at this time. \nBenefits: \nMedical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options\nDental Plans, with buy-up option\nVision Plan\nLife Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options\nShort Term Disability, paid for by the company\nLong Term Disability, paid for by the company\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA)\nHealth Savings Account (HSA)\n401k/Roth 401k\nVoluntary Accident Plans\nVoluntary Critical Illness Plans\nHospital Indemnity Plan\nHyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status. 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