Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Manufacturing Engineering Leader

Lead the Manufacturing Engineering Function

Establish priorities, goals, and performance expectations for the Manufacturing Engineering team.

Provide technical and operational leadership to ensure manufacturing engineering activities support production, quality, cost, delivery, and business objectives.

Align resources to the highest-value opportunities across competing engineering and operational needs.

Develop team capabilities, identify skill gaps, and build a strong pipeline of technical talent.

Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving.

Drive Manufacturing and Operational Performance

Partner with Operations leadership to improve manufacturing performance, productivity, capacity, quality, cost, and delivery.

Establish and monitor key manufacturing performance metrics.

Identify operational risks and constraints and lead initiatives to address them before they impact production.

Develop and execute manufacturing strategies that improve scalability, reliability, efficiency, and resilience.

Provide leadership during significant production issues, ensuring rapid containment, root cause identification, and sustainable corrective action.

Lead Advanced Manufacturing and Automation

Provide technical leadership for automation, robotics, PLCs, automated assembly, and test systems.

Identify and prioritize automation opportunities based on safety, quality, capacity, throughput, cost, and return on investment.

Lead the evaluation, development, implementation, and optimization of advanced manufacturing technologies.

Partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and external vendors to improve equipment reliability and manufacturing capability.

Ensure automation and manufacturing systems are properly validated, documented, maintained, and supported.

Drive Continuous Improvement

Establish and lead Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement strategies aligned with business objectives.

Sponsor and oversee improvement projects focused on productivity, quality, cost reduction, waste elimination, and process stability.

Ensure improvement efforts are supported by data, measurable objectives, and sustainable results.

Promote standardization, simplification, mistake-proofing, and scalable manufacturing practices.

Build a culture where employees proactively identify and resolve opportunities for improvement.

Own Manufacturing Process Development

Oversee the development, optimization, and validation of manufacturing processes, tooling, work instructions, routings, and production methods.

Ensure manufacturing processes are robust, repeatable, capable, and aligned with quality and production requirements.

Provide manufacturing engineering leadership for New Product Introduction (NPI), including DFM/DFA reviews, process development, equipment selection, and process validation.

Ensure manufacturing readiness for new products, processes, equipment, and production transfers.

Establish appropriate controls and documentation to ensure long-term process stability.

Lead Problem Resolution and Risk Management

Provide leadership for complex manufacturing problems involving equipment, tooling, automation, materials, processes, and product performance.

Ensure effective root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action for recurring or significant issues.

Use production data and cross-functional input to identify trends, systemic issues, and emerging operational risks.

Establish control plans, standard work, monitoring systems, and other mechanisms to prevent recurrence.

Ensure significant manufacturing issues are appropriately escalated, communicated, and resolved.

Collaborate Across the Organization

Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Product Engineering, Program Management, and other functions to achieve business objectives.

Represent Manufacturing Engineering in cross-functional initiatives, product development programs, operational reviews, and strategic planning.

Support quality investigations, CAPA, audits, and regulatory requirements.

Work with Finance and Operations to develop business cases and evaluate capital…