Extrusion Engineer

Headquartered in St. Augustine, FL, with offices and manufacturing facilities around the globe, Amphenol CIT is a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance wire, cable, and medical devices. We provide interconnect solutions for industries including Aerospace, Military & Defense Electronics, Space, Medical, Test & Measurement, and Industrial.

About the role

The Thermoplastics Extrusion Engineer supports process improvements, scrap reduction, sustaining engineering, capital equipment specification, qualification, and technical support for all Thermoplastic Extrusion manufacturing processes such as fluoropolymer extrusion and silicone extrusion.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support and troubleshooting/problem resolution to ensure cost, quality, delivery, and safety targets are met.
• Evaluates scrap/waste for assigned manufacturing processes and develops/executes plans for waste reduction.
• Ensures Standard Work for Manufacturing and supporting processes are in place to provide consistent direction to production and minimize safety, quality, or downtime incidents.
• Spends over 70% of time in production areas supporting extrusion operations.
• Leads or participates in continuous improvement projects related to extrusion manufacturing processes.
• Performs engineering analysis, DOEs, and trials to improve and optimize manufacturing processes.
• Leads or participates in Capital Equipment planning, procurement, design, installation, and qualification (DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ).
• Coordinates with Maintenance, EHS, and operations to ensure safety measures are compliant and effective.
• Supports Design Engineering with process, tooling, and sustaining engineering extrusion activities.
• Provides Design for Manufacturability (DFM) input for New Product Development (NPD) initiatives, ensuring extrusion processes are capable, repeatable, and cost-effective.
• Guides DFM principles for extrusion tooling, materials, and process parameters, including critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics.
• Develops, maintains, and standardizes extrusion parts lists, tooling configurations, and equipment documentation to ensure consistency and readiness.
• Performs other duties as required in support of the department and the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2-5 years’ engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally aerospace or similar.
• Experience working with extrusion, particularly fluoropolymer, highly desirable.
• Experience or knowledge of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools preferred; utilizes formal problem-solving methodologies (RCA, PDCA, 8D, DMAIC, etc.).
• Background in aerospace, defense, or cable assembly industries favored.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; conversational ability in any other language is a plus.
• Must be a U.S. person as defined in ITAR, 22 CFR 120.15 (U.S. Citizenship or Resident Alien Status).

Skills

• Able to explain complex operations and methods clearly and concisely to employees, suppliers, and customers.
• Cooperates with others and treats all with respect.
• Accepts responsibility for own actions and willingly accepts feedback from others.

Physical Demands

This role requires the ability to sit, stand, and walk throughout the day while frequently using hands to handle objects and communicate verbally. The employee may need to reach, stretch, push, pull, crouch, stoop, and occasionally lift objects weighing up to fifty (50) pounds. Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to ensure individuals with disabilities can perform essential functions.

Work Environment

Amphenol CIT is a clean facility housing machinery, equipment, processes, and chemicals that produce potential hazards such as ergonomic risks, chemical exposure, machine point-of-operation hazards, and powered industrial vehicle traffic. These hazards are controlled through engineering and administrative controls, including safety policies and programs. In certain areas, employees are required to wear personal protective equipment such as hearing protection, safety glasses, safety toe shoes, and hand protection.

Approximately less than 5% travel is expected. This position includes access or potential access to ITAR and EAR technical data, so candidates must qualify as U.S. persons.