Manufacturing Engineer
North Salt Lake, UTJob$75–90K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Manufacturing Engineer designs, implements, and optimizes production processes, equipment, and workflows for custom cable and wire harness manufacturing. The role focuses on improving quality and efficiency while reducing waste. It provides hands-on production support, partners with Quality on root-cause investigations and corrective actions, and collaborates with customer design engineers and production teams to improve manufacturability.
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Manufacturing Engineer
Direct Hire | $75,000–$90,000 annually
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineer to design, implement, and optimize production processes, equipment, and workflows. This position plays a key role in improving quality, increasing efficiency, reducing waste, and supporting custom cable and wire harness manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
Process Design & Optimization: Develop, test, and improve manufacturing processes, assembly workflows, and work instructions to increase productivity, reduce waste, and control costs.
Equipment & Tooling: Identify, design, select, and implement equipment, tooling, and fixtures that support safe, efficient, and accurate production.
Troubleshooting & Production Support: Resolve production bottlenecks and equipment issues while providing hands-on technical support to production employees.
Quality Support: Partner with the Quality team to investigate quality concerns, determine root causes, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with customer design engineers, Quality, and production teams to review specifications and improve manufacturability.
Qualifications
Relevant manufacturing engineering experience, preferably within custom cable or wire harness manufacturing
Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and manufacturing specifications
Experience with manufacturing equipment, tooling, and process improvement
Strong problem-solving, communication, and project management skills
Engineering degree or equivalent hands-on practical experience
No Degree? No Problem.
A degree is not required. Candidates with strong, hands-on manufacturing engineering experience will be considered, making this a great opportunity for experienced professionals who have developed their expertise directly on the manufacturing floor.
Pay Details: $75,000.00 to $90,000.00 per hour
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Military connected talent encouraged to apply
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,320 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–90K/yr
- Utah median$89–134K/yr42 salary ranges
- US median$95–141K/yr3,113 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $83K, is 26% below the Utah median midpoint ($112K) — in the lowest quarter of Manufacturing Engineer salary ranges in Utah.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 90 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs in Utah and 5,320 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- Northrop Grumman27 open
- ALBANY INTERNATIONAL, CORP.8 open
- L3Harris7 open
- Experience
- Manufacturing Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (4,220 postings).
- Education
- 2,916 of the 5,320 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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