Manufacturing Engineering Technician

Date

Nov 26, 2025

Location

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Company

Leggett & Platt

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt's overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt's inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

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Summary: Position will be responsible to collect and provide inspection data/capability data to help analyze and solve quality issues. Position will work with Manufacturing Engineers to make changes and improvements to product designs, standard work instructions, engineering standards and specifications, and manufacturing processes. Other responsibilities include conducting pre and post runs on new sample jobs, training operators, conducting audits and analyzing quality data including costs, issuing Quality Alerts and applying fundamental statistical methods for process control. Occasional customer/site visits may be necessary.

Essential Duties:

• 5.1 Conduct floor inspections based on resolving process problems, customer issues and audit findings.
• 5.2 Work on assigned Quality Improvement Projects. This could include: participating on project teams with customers, plant leadership and hourly employees to solve problems. Also includes participation on Continuous Improvement teams for 6S and PDCA projects.
• 5.3 Work on assigned Customer Complaints and resolve in a reasonable amount of time. This would include such tasks as: investigating issue to determine a cause, implementing a solution and effectively communicating results to manufacturing, leadership and customers when necessary.
• 5.4 Work on assigned Corrective Action Requests and resolve in a reasonable amount of time. This would include such tasks as: conducting a more comprehensive investigation using formal problem solving tools to determine root cause, implementing a solution and effectively communicating results to manufacturing, leadership and customers when necessary.
• 5.6 Issues engineering changes as requested from internal production modifications and cost changes.
• 5.7 Issues internal engineering changes related to processes and material changes.

Qualification Requirements: Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job as long as undo hardships are not created by the accommodations.

Education and/or experience: Associate degree from a college in Engineering discipline (Industrial, Product, Manufacturing, etc.) or an equivalent amount of experience/ training in a manufacturing environment.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports and procedural manuals. Ability to present information and instructions and respond to questions, complaints, or inquiries from employees, customers and management.

Mathematical Skills:

• 9.1. Ability to calculate figures and other calculations and apply mathematical concepts as required.
• 9.2. Ability to use computer software for projects and reports as needed.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions, and offer solutions.

Physical Demands:

• 11.1. Must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Accommodations will be made if necessary and without creating undo hardships for the company.
• 11.2. The employee will be on the shop floor on a regular basis and may need to occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds. Vision abilities will require good vision and the ability to focus on diagrams, layouts, equipment, etc.

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Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

Regarding Equal Employment / Equal Access

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, and all its Canadian affiliates value the diversity of skills, knowledge, and perspectives our employees bring to our workplace. We believe the presence in our workforce of individuals with characteristics protected under local human rights legislation, including but not limited to females, minorities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, persons from all faiths and national origins and of all colors reward us with greater talent, new ideas and unique perspectives.

It is therefore our policy to recruit, hire, promote, transfer, administer benefits and handle all other conditions of employment in a non-discriminatory manner without discrimination regarding any protected status under local human rights legislation. Our Chief Executive Officer has requested that all of our employees make equal opportunity a priority.

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