Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Fully Onsite 5 days a week

Location: Cicero, IL

Salary Range: $80000 - $120000 / Year

Full Time position

Benefits: This position is eligible for medical

Key Responsibilities

• Validate system-generated fabrication drawings, work instructions, or cutsheets to ensure they accurately reflect how products should be manufactured.
• Review engineering calculations and system outputs to confirm they align with production requirements before implementation.
• Investigate discrepancies between engineering documentation and shop floor builds, identifying whether issues stem from calculations, inputs, or manufacturing processes.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and IT teams to improve calculation logic, product configurations, and manufacturing processes.
• Document manufacturing rules, engineering standards, and validation procedures to support consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in testing and validation of new products, engineering changes, and manufacturing scenarios before release to production.
• Support production teams by providing guidance on interpreting fabrication documentation and resolving technical issues.
• Serve as the engineering liaison between manufacturing operations and technical teams to ensure accurate, production-ready outputs.

What We're Looking For

Required

• Degree in Engineering (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial)
• Experience reading, interpreting, and validating fabrication drawings, manufacturing drawings, shop drawings, cutsheets, or other production documentation.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how engineering documentation translates to the production floor.
• Experience troubleshooting manufacturing or engineering issues and identifying root causes.
• Comfortable reviewing engineering data in spreadsheets, databases, or similar systems to verify accuracy.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong documentation skills.

Preferred

• Exposure to sheet metal fabrication, custom manufacturing, HVAC products, or similar engineered products.
• 3+ years of engineering experience
• Basic SQL or database literacy (ability to review queries or trace calculated values; no programming required).
• Experience partnering with software, ERP, MES, or manufacturing systems teams.
• Familiarity with quality, safety, or industry compliance standards.
• Experience supporting engineering change processes, product configuration, or manufacturing system improvements.

Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or a related Engineering discipline.
• Ambitious, curious, and eager to build a career in manufacturing engineering.
• Strong willingness to learn with a hands-on, problem-solving mindset.
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to take initiative and thrive with increasing responsibility.
• Comfortable collaborating with production teams and learning directly from experienced engineers and technicians.
• Strong attention to detail with an interest in how products are designed, built, and improved.
• Internship, co-op, or manufacturing experience is a plus, but recent engineering graduates are encouraged to apply.

Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.