Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Lexington Medical · Bedford, MA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Lexington Medical (medical devices) in Bedford, MA. Provide technical mentorship and people management to a small team of 2-4 who refine and support existing equipment, design and maintain processes, and develop fixturing.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Root cause, PLC, Automation, Tooling
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $100k–$145k.
Median of the low and high ends of 34 live postings that list pay, out of 62 manufacturing engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 61 other live manufacturing postings in Massachusetts.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (4+ vs 5+)
Typical $95k–$134k, from 31 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Tooling 55%
- Lean 53%
- ✓ Automation 45%
- ✓ Root cause 42%
- ✓ New product launch 39%
- Six Sigma 32%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for PLC, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
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This plant: Lexington Medical in Bedford
4 other open roles at this site.
- Senior Quality Control Technician · Quality · Technician
- Production Technician - 2nd shift · Production · Technician
- Quality Control Technician · Quality · Technician
- Manufacturing Automation Engineer · Controls
Full description from Lexington MedicalAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Provide technical mentorship and people management to a small team of 2-4 who refine and support existing equipment, design and maintain processes, and develop fixturing. You will be responsible for the output and professional growth of your direct reports.
- ◆Understand, debug, and alter complex proprietary equipment (designed by our own in-house automation team). You will be a technical escalation point for your team and must feel comfortable getting hands-on to perform root cause analysis.
- ◆Coordinate product and equipment introduction and change control processes on the manufacturing floor, developing systems to ensure smooth R&D to operations hand-offs.
- ◆Own technical excellence and systemic integrity across all product manufacturing lines. You will lead and organize your team to detect and address quality or yield issues, guiding them in the balance between rapid-response ‘firefighting’ and long-term solutions for persistent issues.
- ◆Provide clear, practical guidance to production technicians while also collaborating on high-level strategy with the R&D, quality, and operations departments of the company.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent area of study.
- ✓4+ years of hands-on engineering experience supporting advanced manufacturing
- ✓Proven success improving production metrics through intelligent design, process implementation/augmentation, or other means.
- ✓Ability to empower a team to act decisively and take calculated technical risks to keep production moving. You have done this as a mentor, even if you haven’t been a formal direct people manager.
- ✓Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Strong problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and analytical thinking.
- ✓Experience working with automated or semi-automated fixtures, especially a working knowledge of PLCs is useful, but not required.
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Company Overview
Lexington Medical, Inc. is a medical device company developing and manufacturing minimally invasive surgical stapling solutions in the Boston area. With the highest standards in design engineering and smart manufacturing, our team delivers disruptive technology to healthcare providers, improving surgical outcomes for patients in a thriving $6B+ surgical stapler market.
Rooted in a talent-dense culture, we are committed to innovation, foster continuous growth, and achieve great heights together. At Lexington Medical, Inc., you will have the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of patients worldwide and thrive in a fast-growing MedTech company.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team at Lexington Medical, Inc. in Bedford, MA. Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing, you will be a technical leader in Lexington Medical’s onsite production spaces, responsible for proprietary equipment optimization, NPI, and continuous improvement projects. This role manages a small team of early career manufacturing engineers and technicians, each responsible for supporting the manufacturing line for part of the product portfolio. This role works typical business hours Monday to Friday, with some need to be remotely available during evenings as questions may come up from second shift production supervisor.
This is an ideal opportunity for a high-performing manufacturing engineer ready to step into a people management role, while remaining deeply technical.