Manufacturing Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA
Manufacturing Engineer jobs in Richmond, Virginia draw consistent demand from defense, food and beverage, and advanced manufacturing firms concentrated in the Southside industrial corridor, Chesterfield County, and the Deepwater Terminal area. Employers hiring right now include Atlantic Constructors, Altria, and Eaton. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions (CPS) division is currently seeking a Automation Manufacturing Engineer to lead advanced manufacturing, automation, industrialization, and capacity initiatives across its manufacturing network. This role is located our of Richmond, VA.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
The Automation Manufacturing Engineer will lead advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 initiatives across the CPS division. This role will improve manufacturing performance, support safe and effective product launches, strengthen design for manufacturability and assembly, and lead capital investment and capacity-expansion projects.
Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.
What you’ll do:
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles, including current-state and future-state value-stream mapping, to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements across CPS manufacturing sites.
- Lead divisional Industry 4.0 and automation projects and provide technical support for site-led implementations, including autonomous mobile robots, vertical lift modules, industrial robotics, and collaborative robotics.
- Develop and execute divisional manufacturing and capacity strategies that align equipment, labor, floor space, and capital investments with forecast demand.
- Develop capital-project concepts and lead approved projects from business case and planning through implementation, validation, and operational handoff.
- Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and implement solutions that improve safety, repeatability, quality, productivity, and cost competitiveness.
- Lead the industrialization of new products by incorporating design for manufacturability and assembly, production-system design, automation, capital requirements, and launch-readiness planning.
- Partner with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and site leadership to standardize best practices and scale successful manufacturing solutions across the CPS network.
- Independently manage multiple cross-functional projects, communicate risks and priorities, and deliver agreed scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives.
When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of five years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience, including experience leading cross-functional projects or multisite initiatives.
- Candidates must reside within 50 miles of the location listed in the job description
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience using an enterprise resource planning or material requirements planning system, preferably SAP.
- Experience implementing industrial automation, industrial robotics, or collaborative robotics.
- Experience using Microsoft Project or an equivalent project-planning tool.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Project Management Professional certification or an equivalent project-management credential.
Skills:
- Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes, including assembly, automation, material flow, and production-system design.
- Demonstrated ability to apply Lean manufacturing systems and Six Sigma methods to solve complex operational problems.
- Ability to translate business priorities into practical manufacturing strategies in a dynamic, multisite environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively and to communicate clearly and professionally across organizational levels and functions.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, maintain momentum, influence without direct authority, and deliver measurable results.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions (CPS) division is currently seeking a Automation Manufacturing Engineer to lead advanced manufacturing, automation, industrialization, and capacity initiatives across its manufacturing network. This role is located our of Richmond, VA.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
The Automation Manufacturing Engineer will lead advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 initiatives across the CPS division. This role will improve manufacturing performance, support safe and effective product launches, strengthen design for manufacturability and assembly, and lead capital investment and capacity-expansion projects.
Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.
What you’ll do:
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles, including current-state and future-state value-stream mapping, to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements across CPS manufacturing sites.
- Lead divisional Industry 4.0 and automation projects and provide technical support for site-led implementations, including autonomous mobile robots, vertical lift modules, industrial robotics, and collaborative robotics.
- Develop and execute divisional manufacturing and capacity strategies that align equipment, labor, floor space, and capital investments with forecast demand.
- Develop capital-project concepts and lead approved projects from business case and planning through implementation, validation, and operational handoff.
- Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and implement solutions that improve safety, repeatability, quality, productivity, and cost competitiveness.
- Lead the industrialization of new products by incorporating design for manufacturability and assembly, production-system design, automation, capital requirements, and launch-readiness planning.
- Partner with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and site leadership to standardize best practices and scale successful manufacturing solutions across the CPS network.
- Independently manage multiple cross-functional projects, communicate risks and priorities, and deliver agreed scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives.
When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of five years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience, including experience leading cross-functional projects or multisite initiatives.
- Candidates must reside within 50 miles of the location listed in the job description
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience using an enterprise resource planning or material requirements planning system, preferably SAP.
- Experience implementing industrial automation, industrial robotics, or collaborative robotics.
- Experience using Microsoft Project or an equivalent project-planning tool.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Project Management Professional certification or an equivalent project-management credential.
Skills:
- Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes, including assembly, automation, material flow, and production-system design.
- Demonstrated ability to apply Lean manufacturing systems and Six Sigma methods to solve complex operational problems.
- Ability to translate business priorities into practical manufacturing strategies in a dynamic, multisite environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively and to communicate clearly and professionally across organizational levels and functions.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, maintain momentum, influence without direct authority, and deliver measurable results.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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Who's Hiring
- Atlantic Constructors24
- Altria16
- Eaton8
- Clark Construction8
Manufacturing Engineer Jobs in Richmond: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a manufacturing engineer job in Richmond?
Focus your search on Richmond's strongest hiring sectors: defense contractors, food and beverage producers, and industrial equipment manufacturers clustered in Southside, Chesterfield County, and along the Route 1 and Route 360 corridors. Candidates with hands-on process improvement experience, familiarity with lean manufacturing, and any exposure to regulated production environments stand out. Networking through local Society of Manufacturing Engineers chapter events also opens doors that posted listings alone won't.
Which companies hire manufacturing engineers in Richmond?
Employers hiring manufacturing engineers in Richmond right now include Atlantic Constructors, Altria, and Eaton, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Richmond's hiring mix leans toward defense and government contractors, mid-size consumer goods producers, and specialty industrial manufacturers operating facilities in Chesterfield and Henrico counties.
Are there remote manufacturing engineer jobs in Richmond?
Yes, but only for a subset of the role. Most manufacturing engineer work is hands-on and tied to a physical plant, so fully remote positions are uncommon. About 50% of manufacturing engineer openings tied to Richmond are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those roles typically cover process documentation, CAD design review, or supplier quality work rather than floor-level production support.
How can I get a manufacturing engineer job in Richmond with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Richmond is targeting manufacturing technician or process technician roles at mid-size producers in Chesterfield and Henrico counties, where employers regularly promote from within. Community college co-op programs through Reynolds Community College also place candidates directly with local manufacturers. Highlighting any coursework in lean methods, AutoCAD, or quality systems gives entry-level applicants a concrete edge over candidates with only general engineering backgrounds.
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