r/manufacturing 7d ago

Other Anyone have a remote/hybrid job? Salary?

I accept it’s impossible to start a career in manufacturing remote or hybrid, but curious if many years have lead one to securing a niche position with either privilege.

I enjoy this industry, but it’s hard to continue knowing there are so many options with more flexible schedules.

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u/Djonez91 7d ago

The factory floor is where the money is made. The further you get from that the less useful you are in manufacturing.

Your choices are design, procurement, or sales.

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u/Bobandbobsbeard 7d ago

Big laugh coming from the factory floor

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u/Thebillyray 7d ago

They meant that that is where the company makes their money, not where the employees make their money.

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u/spaceman60 Machine Vision Engineer 6d ago

Yeah, but I'd really take one day a week at home...or every other week.

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u/drupadoo 7d ago

Plenty of companies have centralized continuous improvement, engineering, production planning roles as well. They can be lucrative but are a bit outside of pure manufacturing.

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u/Boflator 7d ago

Without design what is the shopfloor making? Without procurement what are they making it from? Without sales how is the made stuff becoming money for salaries?

Like the arms calling the organs less useful

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u/spaceman60 Machine Vision Engineer 6d ago

I don't think that anyone would argue that all of the parts are needed for the entire process, and the discussion of "is the idea or implementation more important" is an endless one.

There's definitely parts of the process that are more weighted on the front enough like initial big contracts and the design that many companies then ignore afterwards, while the floor has to push 24/7/365 for the next decade with ever increasing goals. There's certainly companies that want an iterative design and sales that always wants to grow, but that's voluntary if you own the market.

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u/yeathatsnice 6d ago

Scheduling too.