Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Department
:
Engineering

Reports to
:
Senior Manager, Engineering

Location: New Westminster, BC

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will be a critical member of our dynamic Manufacturing Engineering team and will play a pivotal role in optimizing and advancing our manufacturing processes through automation. You will lead the development and implementation of automated systems to enhance production efficiency, ensure product quality across our operations and partner on sustainable equipment solutions supporting our Net 0 goals.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automation technologies, a deep understanding of engineering principles, and the ability to drive innovative solutions.

Under the supervision of Senior Manager, Engineering, you’ll partner with a team of Manufacturing Engineers as well as Technical Developers. You will also collaborate extensively and cross-functionally with the Quality and Production team.

Provide technical leadership to drive factory-wide production line transformations and automation initiatives, enabling scalable, standardized, and high-performance manufacturing within the same factory footprint.

• Lead pre-production ramp-up and production line transformations across the factory, ensuring scalable, standardized, and high-performance manufacturing systems.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to Manufacturing Engineers supporting product and line transformations, aligning engineering execution with factory priorities and performance targets.
• Drive lamination and sewing process optimization and automation across production lines through development, validation and deployment stages to improve quality, throughput, and process consistency.
• Own and develop scalable process and automation standards to support higher production volumes within the same factory footprint.
• Build and sustain technical standards and capabilities to expand sewing automation adoption across the factory.
• Partner with machine suppliers and system integrators to trial, validate, and deploy automation technologies that enhance manufacturing performance.
• Lead manufacturing engineering initiatives aligned with the Factory of the Future strategy, focusing on productivity, scalability, and automation readiness.
• Design and deploy optimized production systems, including workstations, layouts, standard methods, tooling, fixtures, and attachments, and execute them into bulk production.
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships with machine integrators and equipment suppliers to co-create customized automation and machinery solutions tailored to ARC’One manufacturing needs.
• Assess new products for manufacturing feasibility and influence product development through Design for Manufacturing (DFM), establishing optimal manufacturing methods and enabling reduced manual operations.
• Partner with Production, Quality, Facilities and Maintenance teams to improve and sustain production KPIs through structured continuous improvement initiatives and systemic process redesign.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA), engineering change requests (ECRs), and experimentation for systemic production challenges, implementing robust, data-driven solutions.
• Identify future machinery, automation, and labor requirements based on production plans and transformation roadmaps and communicate requirements to relevant stakeholders to ensure resource readiness.
• Monitor and analyze production performance using time study and analytical methods, driving sustained productivity improvements and effective resource utilization

• Take on more complex projects in partnership with the Senior Automation Engineer and external vendors to refine and optimize automated machines and processes.
• Coach and mentor Manufacturing Engineers in support of their development plan to meet increasing departmental expectations and KPIs.

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• You have…