Manufacturing Engineer

Location:

Buffalo, NY, USA

Salary: $ USD Annually - $ USD Annually

Staff Manufacturing Engineer – Global Strategic Growth

Location:

Tempe, AZ | Buffalo, NY | Wilmington, NC

Travel: 90-100% Global Travel Required

GTI Fabrication is a rapidly growing manufacturer supporting the global data center infrastructure market. As the company continues to expand, we are seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer to join our Global Strategic Growth team.

This highly visible role serves as a senior technical resource supporting strategic growth initiatives, including new manufacturing facilities, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, capacity expansion projects, and potential acquisitions. The position offers the opportunity to influence major business decisions by evaluating manufacturing capabilities, assessing technical risks, and developing scalable production strategies across a global manufacturing network.

The Staff Manufacturing Engineer – Global Strategic Growth provides technical leadership for manufacturing expansion initiatives worldwide. This role works closely with Production Planning, Operations, Engineering, and Strategic Growth leadership to identify production gaps, assess potential manufacturing partners and facilities, and determine the most effective path to support future growth.

The successful candidate will perform technical due diligence, evaluate manufacturing readiness, assess capacity and capability requirements, and develop investment and implementation plans that support informed business decisions. This individual will play a critical role in determining whether facilities, strategic partners, or acquisition targets can safely, efficiently, and consistently manufacture GTI products at scale.

• Lead manufacturing technical due diligence activities for prospective facilities, strategic partners, joint ventures, and acquisition targets.
• Define assessment methodologies, evaluation criteria, site visit plans, and validation requirements.
• Translate customer, product, regulatory, and business requirements into manufacturing process, equipment, facility, tooling, labor, testing, and quality requirements.
• Evaluate production capacity through analysis of cycle times, takt times, OEE, equipment uptime, staffing models, changeovers, constraints, yields, and material flow.
• Assess manufacturing capabilities across fabrication, welding, coating, assembly, testing, packaging, and integration processes.
• Review facility readiness including layouts, utilities, material handling systems, maintenance programs, warehouse operations, quality systems, EHS compliance, and manufacturing technologies.
• Identify gaps relative to company standards and quantify associated risks related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, compliance, and business continuity.
• Develop current-state and future-state process flows, conceptual facility layouts, equipment requirements, staffing plans, and implementation strategies.
• Estimate capital expenditures, operating costs, launch expenses, staffing requirements, and project schedules required to achieve operational readiness.
• Support site selection, make-versus-buy decisions, capacity allocation strategies, partnership evaluations, and acquisition assessments.
• Develop technical risk registers, mitigation plans, gap closure strategies, and executive-level recommendations.
• Support equipment specification development, supplier reviews, installation planning, commissioning activities, process validation, and production readiness efforts.
• Coordinate manufacturing handoffs and ensure successful transitions into long-term operational ownership.
• Develop and refine due diligence…