Manufacturing Engineering Manager - FME

Fairbanks Morse Defense, 701 White Ave, Beloit, Wisconsin, United States of America

Posted Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Mission-Driven. Honor-Bound. Fairbanks Morse Defense. What’s your calling? For the men and women of Fairbanks Morse Defense it’s the rapid and effective support of the fleets that entrust us to design, develop, and deliver the best naval power technology on the planet. We’re one of the nation’s leading marine defense contractors because of the highly trained and dedicated teams that provide reliable power systems, parts, and aftermarket services to the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, and Canadian Coast Guard.

When you join Fairbanks Morse Defense, you join a legacy of commitment that spans 150 years. Fairbanks Morse Defense offers competitive benefits with a wide range of training and development opportunities. Our world-class teams are dedicated to helping every individual achieve their full potential. Discover what it’s like to be a part of the Fairbanks Morse Defense team here:

To lead, manage, and provide direction to the Manufacturing Engineering Department supporting new product introduction, current product evolution, and ongoing process effectiveness.

As the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will provide inspirational leadership to skilled manufacturing engineers (Machining, Welding, Assembly, Test, Piping, Electrical), make work educational, and build authentic learning communities to create, develop, implement, optimize and maintain routings, tooling/fixtures, process instructions/standardized work, CNC programs and labor standards for high reliability low volume/high mix diesel engine products.

• Align Manufacturing Engineering personnel and financial resources to support business objectives.
• Attend major contract meetings for development of processes, tooling, fixtures, setups and schedules.
• Responsible for annual budget submission.
• Responsible for evaluating and recommending new technologies to support current, new and existing fabrication, machining and assembly equipment providing justification for capital requests. (CARs)
• Develops and executes capital equipment roadmap to support both business growth and existing business.
• Coordinate execution of manufacturing schedules and priorities to meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for maintaining and improving all manufacturing processes and related metrics- but not limited to production efficiency, cycle times, capacity, capabilities and others as needed to provide data for costing
• Responsible for resource planning both from staffing and equipment perspective.
• Ensures quality system standards are met and maintained during the manufacturing process.
• Lead with and without authority. Model the way, encourage the heart, challenge the process, enable others to act, and inspire a shared vision.
• Drive Lead cross functional teams in continuous improvement activities, implementing methods, practices, and techniques to improve safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Lead Manufacturing Engineering Team in analyzing manufacturing process flows continually for enhancements of quality and throughput, using probes and robots to improve welding, burring, material handling, and machining operations to a level of lights out or unmanned operation.
• Provide support in production departments to troubleshoot and resolve production problems on parts written up for nonconformance reports (NCRs)
• Support company policies and procedures, goals and objectives, environmental safety and health regulations and manufacturing practices in providing a safe work environment

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or at least 5 years of Manufacturing Management Experience and/or at least 8 years of hands-on manufacturing experience.
• Must have experience of up to 3 years in (5) axis CNC programming and machining of complex surfaces.
• Must have experience with new product launches.
• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite including MS Projects. Experience working with an ERP system such as…