Engineering & Technical

The engineers who put the product on the floor.

Manufacturing engineering is where a drawing becomes something a plant can build repeatably, at cost, on time. We recruit the process, quality, controls, tooling, and design engineers who make that happen — and we screen on the work itself: the tolerances they held, the tooling they proved out, the launch they carried through PPAP.

20+
Years in Manufacturing Recruiting
90%+
Repeat Business
<10
Days to Shortlist
10+
Years Avg. Client Relationship

Roles We Fill in Engineering & Technical

From individual contributors to executive leadership, we recruit across all levels of engineering and technical talent.

Manufacturing & Process Engineers

Owners of routings, cycle time, fixturing, and the yield that determines whether a job makes money.

Quality Engineers

PPAP, APQP, FMEA, control plans, gage R&R, and the customer-facing corrective actions nobody enjoys.

Controls & Automation Engineers

PLC, HMI, robotics, and vision — the people who make a cell run and keep it running.

Design & Product Engineers

Mechanical and electrical design with real DFM judgment, so the part can actually be made.

Tooling, Die & Mold Engineers

Stamping dies, injection molds, and fixtures — design through tryout and into production.

Manufacturing Engineering Managers

Leaders who run the engineering group and own the technical side of launch.

Industrial Engineers

Line balance, layout, capacity modeling, and labor standards that hold up under audit.

Machining & CNC Engineers

Programming, workholding, and tight-tolerance work — including AS9100 aerospace machining.

Weld, Materials & Metallurgical Engineers

Joining, heat treat, coatings, and materials specialists for demanding applications.

Why Choose Us

Our Engineering & Technical Expertise

With decades of combined experience in engineering and technical recruiting, we understand the technical requirements, industry dynamics, and cultural factors that make a successful placement.

  • Screening on the work: tolerances held, processes proven out, launches carried, customers faced
  • Deep automotive and aerospace/defense exposure, including machining and tight-tolerance environments
  • Fluent in GD&T, PPAP/APQP, FMEA, and control plans — so a technical screen is a real conversation
  • Understands the difference between a design engineer and someone who can make it manufacturable
  • Access to passive engineers who are not on job boards and will not answer a mass email
  • 150+ independent recruiters nationwide when a skill set is genuinely rare

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