Senior Engineering Group Manager - Automated Manufacturing

Senior Engineering Group Manager

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The Senior Engineering Group Manager is a key member of the Engineering leadership team responsible for providing technical and organizational leadership across multiple engineering disciplines supporting manufacturing operations. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role leads Engineering Managers and technical teams responsible for factory engineering, equipment performance, mechanical systems, automation support, and capital equipment execution. The Senior Engineering Group Manager is accountable for building high-performing engineering teams while ensuring the organization has the technical capability, engineering rigor, and execution discipline required to support current manufacturing operations and future growth.

This position requires an exceptional engineering leader with deep mechanical aptitude and extensive hands-on experience designing complex automated manufacturing equipment. The successful candidate will have progressed from a strong mechanical machine-design foundation into engineering management and will be ready to take the next step into broader, cross-functional, multi-discipline engineering leadership.

The ideal candidate has experience within an OEM machine builder or equipment integrator serving the packaging, medical device, pharmaceutical, or automotive industries, where equipment reliability, precision, automation, throughput, and maintainability are critical to success.

Engineering Leadership

• Provide leadership and direction to Engineering Managers and multi-disciplinary engineering teams supporting manufacturing operations.
• Develop a high-performance engineering organization with clear expectations for technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, accountability, and execution.
• Coach and develop Engineering Managers, engineers, and technical leaders while building succession plans and strengthening the organization's technical bench.
• Establish consistent engineering standards, processes, and expectations across manufacturing areas.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Reliability, Facilities, and other functional leaders to establish priorities and deliver business results.
• Create an environment where engineering teams proactively identify opportunities and solve problems at their root cause rather than repeatedly responding to symptoms.

Technical & Equipment Leadership

• Serve as a senior technical authority for mechanical equipment design, machine functionality, equipment performance, and engineering problem solving.
• Provide technical leadership for the design, modification, integration, commissioning, and lifecycle support of complex automated manufacturing equipment.
• Lead engineering reviews of machine concepts, mechanical designs, equipment modifications, and major technical solutions.
• Challenge engineering assumptions and ensure solutions demonstrate sound engineering principles, appropriate safety considerations, manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle value.
• Guide root-cause analysis of complex or chronic equipment failures involving mechanical, electrical, controls, process, and operational interactions.
• Ensure engineering solutions address underlying equipment and process limitations rather than relying on temporary countermeasures.
• Support the development of equipment specifications and technical requirements for internally developed and externally sourced manufacturing systems.

Operational Excellence

• Partner with factory leadership to improve equipment availability, throughput, quality, yield, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Establish engineering priorities based on business impact, equipment performance data, chronic losses, and manufacturing constraints.
• Lead engineering efforts addressing recurring equipment failures, bottlenecks, quality losses, and systemic manufacturing issues.
• Promote disciplined problem-solving methodologies and data-driven engineering decision making.
• Ensure engineering resources are effectively deployed against the highest-value operational opportunities.

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of engineering experience involving the design, development, integration, and support of complex manufacturing equipment. AND a Minimum 3 years of experience directly managing a mechanical engineering or machine-design organization. Must have hire-fire engineering staff management experience.
• Extensive professional experience using 3D mechanical…