Manufacturing Engineer
Eaton · Orchard Park, NY
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $71k–$105k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 1+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 15 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at Eaton (industrial) in Orchard Park, NY. Responsible for Safety, Ergonomics, and Management of Change activity in support of site safety goals.
- They ask for
- 1+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Tooling
- Base pay
- $71k–$105k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in New York: typical posted base $86k–$120k. This one lists $71k–$105k.
Median of the low and high ends of 34 live postings that list pay, out of 55 manufacturing engineer openings in New York, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
New York plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 54 other live manufacturing postings in New York.
- Base pay
- About 15% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (1+ vs 5+)
Typical $86k–$120k, from 32 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Tooling 53%
- ✓ Lean 42%
- ✓ Root cause 36%
- New product launch 27%
- Cost reduction 27%
- Automation 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Eaton in Orchard Park
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- Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Electrical · Manufacturing · Senior
- Lead Controls Engineer · Controls · Manager
- Manufacturing Engineer Supervisor · Manufacturing · Supervisor
Full description from EatonAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Responsible for Safety, Ergonomics, and Management of Change activity in support of site safety goals.
- ◆Generate and revise Manufacturing Processes and Manufacturing Work Instructions
- ◆Identify new tooling needed and Maintain tooling, gauging, and test equipment for mature production
- ◆Drive First Pass Yield (FPY) and Overall Process Effectiveness (OPE) improvement
- ◆Support proposal development- ME hours, recurring hardware hours and risk assessment
- ◆Provide timely support in resolving manufacturing issues
- ◆Responsible for Work Cell Design, Integration and Validation
- ◆Utilize Lean Six Sigma tools to reduce waste and variation in processes focused on improving KPIs
- ◆Support 5S and visual management efforts in manufacturing areas
- ◆Support Product Conformance and Configuration Control
Qualifications
Basic
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or engineering technology from an accredited institution
- ✓Minimum of 1 year experience in: Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering , or similar internships/co-ops
- ✓No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Orchard Park, NY to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
- ✓Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etcThis position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by export laws of the US.
- ✓This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by export laws of the US. In order to be eligible, you must be either a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Experience in helping develop new products and supporting proposal work
- ✓Experience in Lean manufacturing and Visual Control implementations
- ✓Experience in designing tooling used in the support of Assembly and Test products
- ✓Experience in Soldering, Wiring, Electrical assembly
- ✓Experience in Root Cause Problem Solving (RCPS)
- ✓Experience in 2D/3D CAD software
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What you’ll do
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Soft skills
- •Ability to work in a multi project, team environment
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