This CNC Applications Engineer role serves as a technical authority for high precision CNC turning applications at a precision manufacturing company, supporting customer quoting, process design, and manufacturing optimization. This position partners closely with sales, operations, and quality teams to translate customer requirements into efficient, scalable machining solutions, with strong cross departmental interaction in a fully onsite environment.
The Applications Engineer analyzes customer prints and specifications to develop complete machining strategies, including process flow, tooling approach, cycle time assumptions, and labor inputs for accurate quoting. This role develops, validates, and refines CNC turning processes focused on repeatability, efficiency, and manufacturability, and creates, reviews, and optimizes CNC programs with an emphasis on process robustness, tool life, and throughput, supporting programming standards and best practices. The position provides advanced technical support for complex setup, programming, or process issues as an escalation point, identifies opportunities to reduce cycle time, tooling cost, and secondary operations through improved process design, and defines tooling, collet, and workholding solutions for efficient, scalable production. This role also works with Quality teams to establish inspection strategies and process controls that ensure consistent compliance with tight tolerance requirements, and actively participates across engineering, operations, quality, and commercial teams to support manufacturability and customer success.
