MANUFACTURING ENGINEER-BARREL CELL

Reports to: VP of Operations • Position Type: Full-Time • Location: Florida or Vermont

About the role

Century Arms is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer, Barrel Cell, to take technical ownership of the setup, operation, development, and ongoing performance of our barrel manufacturing cell. This is a highly hands-on engineering and process-ownership position—not a traditional machine operator or machinist role. The Manufacturing Engineer, Barrel will be responsible for the complete barrel manufacturing process, including equipment setup and operation, tooling selection, process development, troubleshooting, quality control, production readiness, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate must have direct, hands-on experience manufacturing rifled firearm barrel blanks, including deep-hole gun drilling, precision reaming, and button rifling. This is not a training-level position. The individual must possess the technical knowledge and practical experience necessary to independently establish, operate, and optimize the barrel manufacturing process. As the barrel manufacturing operation expands, this individual will help build the operation and provide technical leadership, training, and oversight to additional team members supporting the cell.

Responsibilities

• Assume technical ownership of the barrel manufacturing cell and the complete barrel manufacturing process.
• Independently set up, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize barrel manufacturing equipment.
• Perform and oversee the deep-hole gun drilling of firearm barrel blanks.
• Perform and oversee precision barrel reaming and preparation for rifling.
• Set up and operate button-rifling equipment, ensuring that established rifling specifications are consistently achieved.
• Support equipment installation, process validation, production ramp-up, and the ongoing development of the barrel manufacturing cell.
• Maintain responsibility for the overall capability, reliability, and performance of the barrel manufacturing process.
• Develop, establish, document, and continuously improve manufacturing processes for barrel production.
• Determine and optimize tooling, fixtures, feeds, speeds, coolant parameters, chip evacuation, and other critical process variables.
• Establish repeatable manufacturing processes capable of meeting production, quality, dimensional, and cycle-time requirements.
• Identify equipment, tooling, fixture, and process improvements necessary to increase quality, efficiency, throughput, and production capability.
• Apply continuous-improvement principles to reduce variation, improve process stability, and increase