Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer
L3Harris · John C Stennis Space Center, MS
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in John C Stennis Space Center, MS. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Kaizen, Machining, Tooling
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $96k–$145k.
Median of the low and high ends of 765 live postings that list pay, out of 2257 manufacturing engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 23 other live manufacturing postings in Mississippi.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (4+ vs 10+)
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Tooling 54%
- ✓ Team leadership 42%
- New product launch 29%
- Automation 29%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 25%
- Root cause 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: L3Harris in John C Stennis Space Center
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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Collaborates with Quality, Engineering, and Safety teams to achieve shared objectives.
- ◆Recommends improvements to systems and processes.
- ◆Supports the achievement of operational goals for specific programs and projects.
- ◆Works under general supervision.
- ◆Communicates with internal and external contacts to explain and interpret operational processes, practices, and procedures.
- ◆Provides manufacturability and assembly feedback to the design center.
- ◆Supports continuous improvement (Kaizen) projects
- ◆Reads and interprets engineering drawings and specification
requirements
to develop process plans that produce compliant hardware.
- ✓Assists with product and tooling drawing design reviews.
- ✓Provides technical guidance and training to shop floor personnel, design teams, and management.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer
Job Location: Stennis Space Center, MS
Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week
Job Description
Responsible for creating and releasing complete, accurate work instructions. Applies troubleshooting skills, including return-to-drawing methodology, and has experience assembling and disassembling hardware with tight or interference-fit tolerances. Supports RS25 engine manufacturing, assembly, and testing.
Preferred Additional Skills
- +Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
- +Experience working with all levels of manufacturing staff.
- +Experience using Microsoft Access, Excel, Powerpoint and Word as well as PTC ‘Windchill’, Dassault ‘Delmia’ and/or Maestro software products
- +Experience with deploying electronic work instructions and/or Bill of Materials (BOM)s
- +Previous role in manufacturing, front-loading product definition, and technical work instruction development to comply with product and process definitions.
- +Proficiency in machining, geometric design and tolerancing, and assembly processes.