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Manufacturing Engineer
Posted May 19, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a fixture or piece of tooling you designed that improved safety or quality on a production line. How did you know it worked?
What they are checking: Whether they have designed real equipment and measured its effect, not just drawn it.
Tell me about a complex problem you solved with a supplier or sub-contractor. How did you get to the root cause?
What they are checking: Whether they use structured problem solving and can work across company lines.
What would you do
You write a new process standard, and operators at one facility keep doing it the old way. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they can get buy-in on the floor rather than blaming operators for not following a document.
How would you take a best practice from one fabrication facility and roll it out to others with different equipment and people?
What they are checking: Whether they can adapt and spread standards across sites, which the role asks for.
A customer complains about inconsistent quality from one of your facilities. How do you investigate?
What they are checking: Whether they go to data and the floor to find variation before proposing a fix.
How do you decide which improvement project to work on first when safety, quality and productivity all need attention?
What they are checking: Whether they prioritize with safety first and a clear sense of impact.
About the work
How do you keep CAD drawings for tooling and equipment accurate and controlled when people on the floor make changes?
What they are checking: Whether they understand drawing control and revision discipline in a working shop.
Walk me through how you would approach developing a new belting product, from customer need to a repeatable fabrication process.
What they are checking: Whether they can carry a product through design into consistent production at Motion's fabrication facilities.
Which Lean tools have you actually used, and what result did one of them produce?
What they are checking: Whether they apply Lean to get results instead of just knowing the vocabulary.
What manufacturing controls would you put in place to keep a cutting or splicing operation within spec?
What they are checking: Whether they know practical controls like poka-yoke, checklists and in-process checks.
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