Manufacturing Engineer

Role Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer sits between Allied Maker’s Design team and the outside world of partner vendors. When a tolerance doesn’t behave, a finish won’t hold, a material fights the process, or a vendor asks a question that could change the part, this is the person who answers, and then loops back to Design with the improvement. The Manufacturing Engineer is a hands-on problem solver whose work keeps fixtures buildable, beautiful, and on schedule.

Responsibilities

Vendor Technical Liaison

• Serve as the primary technical contact between Design Engineering and partner vendors (machining, spinning, casting, glass, alabaster, wood)
• Resolve vendor questions about tolerances, materials, finishes, and process capability while preserving design intent
• Support QC on supplier quality issues: investigate root cause, implement corrective actions, and verify effectiveness

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

• Review designs with Design Engineering for manufacturability, tolerance realism, assembly fit, and cost before release
• Propose actionable design improvements to improve yield, cost, and schedule while maintaining design intent
• Maintain a library of DFM lessons learned

Process & Tolerance Ownership

• Own tolerance stack-up analysis on critical features
• Resolve conflicts between design intent and vendor capability
• Define inspection and acceptance criteria with QC
• Lead first-article reviews and process qualification for new vendors and parts

Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Assembly, Pre-Production, and Quality to resolve recurring issues from vendor parts or upstream design
• Track the cost of poor quality and lead-time impact from vendor issues and report trends

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering
• 3–5 years of manufacturing engineering experience with vendor interaction
• Strong knowledge of machining, spinning, casting, and finishing processes
• Fluent in GD&T (ASME Y14.5), tolerance stack-ups, and process capability
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Organized, decisive, and able to own issues through resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in lighting, luxury goods, architectural hardware, or custom manufacturing
• CAD experience (Fusion or similar)
• Familiarity with UL 1598 / UL 8750
• Lean / Six Sigma experience
• Experience working with Northeast US vendors
• Salary: $95,000 – $120,000 annually (based on experience)
• Discretionary bonus
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO, holidays, parental leave
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Safety shoe and eyewear allowance
• Employee product discount

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• On-site at the Glen Cove workshop
• Mix of desk work, shop floor time, and vendor interaction
• Active shop environment; PPE required where applicable
• Occasional travel to vendor facilities

About Allied Maker

• Allied Maker is an American design and manufacturing studio creating luxury-crafted lighting fixtures. Based in New York, each piece is made to order by a dedicated team of craftspeople, with a focus on authentic materials, refined form, and enduring quality.
• The studio operates at the intersection of design, engineering, and manufacturing. Ryden Rizzo leads product design and form. Lanette Rizzo leads design direction, production, and client strategy. Together, they set a standard where design integrity, engineering, and performance are inseparable.
• Allied Maker is widely specified by leading architects and designers and continues to expand its capabilities while maintaining a singular focus: deliver artisan-crafted, highly engineered, sophisticated yet simple lighting design solutions.
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