Manufacturing Engineering Consulting
Jacob Watson - Manufacturing Consulting
Work spans safety-critical hardware, consumer products, and precision manufacturing environments.
Services
$1,000 flat · 1–2 weeks
A focused DFM review of key components, process and SOP gap assessment, supplier risk flags, and a prioritized recommendation doc. The fastest way to know where your manufacturing process is exposed before you scale.
Ongoing · 15–20 hrs/month
A fractional manufacturing engineer for your team: DFM support, SOP development, supplier coordination, and process improvement. Senior-level manufacturing thinking embedded in your team without the overhead.
One-time or ongoing
Assembly manuals, inspection procedures, manufacturing SOPs, work instructions, and compliance documentation built to industry standards. Based on work across safety-critical and consumer hardware products.
Early-stage startup? If the problem is interesting and the fit is right, I'm open to working for equity, revenue share, or trading services in lieu of cash. This isn't a default offer—it's for founders who are building something real and need engineering partnership, not just a vendor.
About
I got into engineering by doing—restoring motorcycles, building sheet metal products for Jeep and Ford platforms, and eventually finding myself on production floors trying to figure out why things weren't being built the way they were designed. That gap between design intent and manufacturing reality is where I've spent most of my career.
Over the past five years I've worked across safety-critical documentation, consumer hardware development, and precision manufacturing environments. I've brought products from sketch to shelf, written SOPs that guides actually follow, and caught DFM problems before they became expensive tooling mistakes.
I work with founders and small teams who need that manufacturing perspective embedded early—not after the first production run comes back wrong. Most of my work lives in the proto-to-production gap, where design intent meets manufacturing reality.
Industries
Book a free 20-minute call and we'll figure it out together.