Engineering Journal Jobs in Hampden, MA

Job Description

In this position the CNC Program Engineer is responsible for assisting engineering and manufacturing in creating and improving CNC machining programs.

Responsibilities

• 
  
• Work with engineering and manufacturing to create fixture and part programs for CNC machines
  
• Continuously making improvements in older CNC programs
  
• Regular attendance is an essential function of this position as unscheduled absences would create undue hardship to the business in its effect on maintaining production numbers. 
  
• Other duties as assigned
  

Skills and Abilities

• 
  
• Great attention to detail 
  
• Good problem-solving skills 
  
• Good at organizing, planning, and prioritizing
  
• Excellent computer abilities
  
• Communicates well with others 
  
• Present information and give feedback 
  

Education/Training

• 
  
• Experience programming CNC Machines
  
• Working knowledge of ISO9001 & AS9100 Quality Management Systems
  
• Working knowledge of GD&T
  
• High School Diploma or GED
  

We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes and Pools

When you join KIK Consumer Products, you’re joining a team that cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families and the cleanliness of their homes and pools. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decision-making and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics. As one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

Your Role at KIK

We are looking for an EHS Specialist to join our plant team, based in Ludlow, Massachusetts. The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Specialist is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining programs that ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as company policies related to workplace safety, environmental protection, and employee health. This role supports continuous improvement in safety culture, risk reduction, and sustainability initiatives by conducting audits, training employees, analyzing incident trends, and recommending corrective actions. The EHS Specialist partners with leadership and employees at all levels to promote a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible workplace while driving adherence to regulatory standards such as OSHA, EPA, and other applicable guidelines.

What You’ll Do

• Direct and manage environmental, health, safety, security, and sustainability activities to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations and KIK Corporate EHS policies, to prevent injuries to employees and negative impact to the environment.
• Partner with Site Leadership to ensure proper EHS protocols, plans and initiatives are in place and consistently followed.
• Ensure all applicable laws and regulations are tracked and that necessary action is taken to ensure compliance.
• Ensure maintenance of EHS management information systems and documentation.
• Successfully lead, manage, and execute EHS initiatives including policies, procedures, programs, and agency regulations and compliance systems with the overall drive of continuous improvement.
• Identify and analyze organizational risks and can develop and implement programs to mitigate these risks and achieve desired results.
• Development and execution of tactical and strategic plans to improve EHS performance.
• Manage the EHS Management System, including Leadership, Planning, Support, Operation, Performance Evaluation, and Improvement
• Lead the site emergency response team, EHS committee.
• Influence stakeholders and behaviors
• The above statement describes the general nature and level off work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as engineering, science, safety, industrial hygiene, or a similar discipline preferred. High School diploma or equivalent required.
• 3 or more years of environmental, health and safety compliance experience in any manufacturing environment.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of federal, state/provincial and local EHS regulations is required.
• Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM) is a plus.
• Relevant certifications a plus (CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE)
• Ability to act as a positive EHS role model, influencing and motivating others.
• Self-motivated with a strong results orientation based on solid analytical thinking and judgment.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as engineering, science, safety, industrial hygiene, or a similar discipline preferred. High School diploma or equivalent required.
• 3 or more years of environmental, health and safety compliance experience in any manufacturing environment.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of federal, state/provincial and local EHS regulations is required.
• Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM) is a plus.
• Relevant certifications a plus (CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE)
• Ability to act as a positive EHS role model, influencing and motivating others.
• Self-motivated with a strong results orientation based on solid analytical thinking and judgment.

What You Will Get

KIK offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. You can plan for your future with KIK's retirement savings options including employer match. KIK also recognizes the importance of continuing education and offers Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth.

About KIK

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes, pools, and cars. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 16 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. We are known for our portfolio of notable brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America of store-brand bleach and a leading private-label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general-purpose cleaning, and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,300 employees drives our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

KIK is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. KIK does not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or uniformed services status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or any other status protected by law.

KIK is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application, or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the job, please contact Human Resources immediately.

Privacy Policy:

Estimator (Welding & Fabrication)

Our Client is seeking a detail-oriented and technically strong Estimator to join our welding and fabrication team. This individual will be responsible for preparing accurate and competitive cost estimates for custom assemblies that include machining, welding, fabrication, plating, finishing, and final assembly.

The ideal candidate understands manufacturing processes from raw material to finished product and can confidently analyze drawings, specifications, and customer requirements to develop precise job quotes.

This role is critical to our company's growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Review RFQs (Requests for Quote), blueprints, drawings, and customer specifications
• Analyze assemblies that require:

Welding (MIG, TIG, Stick, Structural)

Machining (CNC, manual)

Fabrication

Plating / coating / finishing

Mechanical assembly

• Determine material requirements and pricing
• Calculate labor hours for fabrication, welding, machining, and assembly
• Obtain and compare vendor quotes for outside services (plating, heat treating, etc.)
• Prepare detailed cost breakdowns including:

Material

Labor

Outside processing

Overhead

Margin

• Communicate with engineering, production, and purchasing teams to validate assumptions
• Submit formal quotations to customers in a timely manner
• Maintain estimating database and historical cost records
• Support production during job kickoff to ensure cost assumptions align with execution
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and process improvements

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in estimating within a welding, fabrication, or manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of:

Welding processes

Machining processes

Fabrication techniques

Metal materials and grades

Manufacturing workflow

• Ability to read and interpret blueprints and technical drawings
• Experience quoting multi-step assemblies
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and estimating software
• Strong math and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and organizational abilities
• Background in welding, machining, or shop floor experience
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems

We are seeking individuals to review and provide feedback on everyday money-management tips. This role focuses on common financial challenges such as managing expenses, reducing spending, and making smarter financial choices.

You will review examples of budgeting methods and evaluate practical ideas people use to stretch their income. The goal is to understand which approaches work best for real households.

The work is flexible and fully online. Applicants should have an interest in budgeting, saving money, or improving financial habits.

No formal finance background is required.

Software Build Engineer - Core Data Platform Team, EISFull-Time, Hybrid (Boston or Springfield)

The Opportunity

You will join the Core Data Platform team, which builds and maintains a suite of tools powering over 2,100 data pipelines in production across MassMutual. As a Software Build Engineer, you'll manage the cloud infrastructure that supports this platform in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. You'll recommend and evaluate new technologies, contribute to code and patterns, and play a key role in shaping the future of data engineering at MassMutual.

The Team

You'll be a key part of our esteemed Core Data Platform team, focused on enabling and accelerating the delivery of new data pipelines and products. You'll help support a thriving user community of over 12 data engineering teams, located both on-shore and off-shore. Our team is technical, highly motivated, and excels at working in a fast-paced and always evolving environment with agility and resilience. We regularly collaborate to establish enterprise strategy, working closely with architecture, governance, and enterprise infrastructure teams.

The Impact

• Design, develop, and improve build and deployment standards and processes (e.g., CI/CD, orchestration, scheduling) to accelerate delivery and ensure reliability of data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain core infrastructure to deliver scalable, robust, and highly available systems, directly supporting 12+ data engineering teams.
• Evaluate and recommend emergent technologies, tools, processes, and reference architectures, driving innovation and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the design and development of new software components, enhancing platform capabilities.
• Define version control best practices and automate enforcement where appropriate.
• Improve monitoring and logging using technologies such as OpenTelemetry and New Relic, enhancing system observability and reducing downtime.
• Identify areas for process improvement and automation, increasing efficiency and reducing manual effort.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Infrastructure, Architecture, and Governance teams, providing mentorship to developers as appropriate.
• Work in an Agile development environment, attending daily stand-up meetings and delivering incremental improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• Cloud: 5+ years of experience working in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS) using infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation to provision infrastructure.

Ideal Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Code: 2+ years of experience as a Python or Java developer.
• Build & Deployment: Excellent understanding of build and continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., Github Actions, Artifactory).
• Communication: Excellent communication, problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Design: Strong foundation in algorithms, design patterns, and writing efficient code.
• Workflow: Knowledge of orchestration and scheduling tools (e.g., Apache Airflow).
• Data: Understanding of data processing technologies such as Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.
• Autonomy: Able to work independently and provide leadership to small teams of developers.

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular collaboration with Enterprise Infrastructure, Architecture, Governance and Data Engineering teams
• Focused one-on-one time with your manager
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

#LI-RK1

The Opportunity

Join our team as an Enterprise Architect in an industry leading EA function that creates alignment between technology and business strategy. You will have an opportunity to guide the process of planning and designing capabilities to maximize the value of IT and enable the company to make high impact, long-term decisions supporting the Corporate Technology Organization in Investment Management(Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Credit & Market Risk functions). This will be accomplished through architecture strategies, blueprints and road maps that standardize technology stacks which create engineering speed and agility through the innovative use of data science, data analytics, cloud and API's. The EA will work with a team that embrace diversity in all of its forms, respect and have fun.

The Team

The MassMutual Enterprise Architecture team in the Enterprise Technology and Experience organization is seeking an outstanding Enterprise Architect (Application) to join our team. Enterprise Architecture is composed of Business, Application, Technology & Design and Security architecture domains. Joining this team will give the Application EA a unique perspective and opportunity to partner with best-in-class architects on enterprise wide technology initiatives.

The Impact:

This role will work with Corporate Technology Finance & Investment Management line of business delivery teams, engineers, application operations, product managers, and enterprise stakeholders to help deliver innovative, data-driven systems aimed at transforming the insurance industry. As part of the application architecture team, incumbents may be responsible for any of the following:

• Technical evaluations and benchmarking of core application platforms, frameworks and technologies
• Specification and publication of standards around application design and software engineering best practices
• Thought leadership and active participation in conferences and research with strategic partners and academic institutions
• Partner with senior leaders to develop and maintain the Technology strategies & roadmap
• Partner with business executives and senior architects to identify data and process issues, then provide solution options and recommends options
• Provide recommendations on system options, risks, cost/benefit analysis, and impact on cross-domain systems, business strategy, goals and processes
• Engage in SA problem solving, snapshots and full architecture documents
• Actively publish deliverables, and utilizes multi-media to educate and engage with federated solution architecture community members
• Collaborate with extended enterprise architecture, business, and IT support teams to communicate architecture strategies, standards, and direction
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related Technical degree
• 8+ years of related IT Solutions Architecture or Technical Lead experience

The Ideal Qualifications

• 10+ years of related IT Architecture or IT consulting experience
• 5 years of Investment Management and/or Finance experience
• Emerging Technologies in Investment Management including AI/ML
• Experience with IM Platforms: Eagle, Aladdin, Calypso, Murex or similar
• Experience in data management platform design and integrations, ABOR/IBOR data layer, data modeling for IM domain, data framework adoption, mastering solution design.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing and reasoning skills
• A team-focused mentality with proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on the ability to effectively influence others, collaborate and partner.
• Understanding of the impact of IT on business results
• Demonstrated experience using Architecture Methodology (TOGAF, Archimate)
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one
• Experience in Public Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), solution design and development using Cloud-native services, and understanding of cost rationalization.
• AWS/Azure Cloud Certification
• Strong experience in Architecture and Design patterns
• Developed acumen in Domain Driven Design
• Strong experience with event streaming design and implementation using Kafka, along with web service protocols and patterns like SOAP, REST, JSON, XML/XSDs.
• Experience with REST API for data interchange and API-driven systems integration decoupling digital and backend systems.
• Track record of designing architectural reference material

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the Enterprise Architecture team
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Access to mentorship opportunities
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical nosiness with industry leading pay and benefits

#LI-RK1

Information Security Consultant, Security Platforms Engineering, Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)

Full-Time, Hybrid – Springfield, MA

The Opportunity

Working closely with MassMutual business partners, you'll help design and implement solutions that address unique security challenges, streamline incident response, and automate critical workflows. The role is centered on building and maintaining resilient logging, data pipeline, and SOAR platforms in collaboration with the Security Operations Center and Security Intelligence teams, directly supporting our mission to enhance detection, response, and overall security posture.

The Team

We are looking for fast thinking, eager to learn team players to join the Security Platforms team. When you join the Security Platforms team, you'll be working with a group of people who are passionate about our security, innovation, and the success of our business partners.

The Impact:

This position offers the opportunity to play a key role in advancing our enterprise's centralized logging and SOAR capabilities. You will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing centralized logging tools, data pipeline, and SOAR platforms at scale, ensuring robust visibility and rapid response across the organization. In addition, you will be working with internal customers and key stakeholders such as the Security Operations Center to onboard logs, manipulate data, create playbooks, write scripts, and configure integrations.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in information technology field
• 1+ years experience with centralized logging, SIEM, and data pipeline
• Weekly on-call duties assigned based on team rotation (currently once every 10 weeks)

The Ideal Qualifications

• Maintaining SIEM and data pipeline platform stability, diagnosing and resolving issues related to the platforms, creating, responding to, and resolving alerts, onboarding and parsing data
• Experience with SOAR platforms
• Working knowledge of Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) updates
• Experience with data manipulation and data science
• Expertise with regular expressions
• Hands on experience with or in support of any of the following vendors: Kafka, Sumo Logic, Splunk, Cribl, Crowdstrike, AWS, XSOAR, Torq, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Netskope, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Atlassian, and other applicable products preferred
• Experience with Linux system administration
• Experience with scripting languages, programming in JSON, JavaScript, python, and bash
• Experience with UNIX, Windows Servers, Java
• Knowledge of information security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection, antivirus, data loss protection, vulnerability scanning, Active Directory, and LDAP
• Preferred knowledge of Database Management (MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL), building queries and developing stored procedures
• Information security solutions development either from an architect or engineering perspective
• Experience troubleshooting inside of a corporate network
• Experience with secure data communications and applications
• Extensive knowledge of current and upcoming IT security technologies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and customer service skills
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills and ability to problem solve with little to no supervision
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow and JIRA tickets for customer assistance

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular collaboration within the Security Platforms Engineering team
• Focused one-on-one time with your manager
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

#LI-RK1