Manufacturing and Process Engineering Leader

Thread lock Precision is a rapidly growing engineered component manufacturing organization serving leading aerospace and defense customers, including OEMs and Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers. Backed by strong financial support and positioned for continued strategic growth, we are investing in our people, capabilities, operations, and manufacturing systems to support long-term growth and increasing demand across complex, high-precision manufacturing programs. The Work We Do Matters!

Our products support the defense industrial base and help ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment.

As part of our strategic growth, we are currently hiring an Enterprise level Manufacturing & Process Engineering Leader to support all entities across the Thread lock Precision platform. We currently have four businesses with a growth strategy to scale to 15-20 operating locations within the next couple of years, in addition to significant growth strategies for our current businesses.

Work Location: Remote with travel of approximately 50 – 60% to our business and operating locations. It’s preferred (not required) the ideal candidate sits at one of our locations:
St. Louis, MO;
Frankenmuth, MI;
Pheonix, AZ;
Cypress, CA.

As the Manager, Manufacturing & Process Engineering, you will help solve complex customer and manufacturing challenges, strengthen how we deliver against quality, cost, and delivery requirements, and build the engineering capability needed to support our continued growth. This role will help shape how we operate across multiple plants, improve consistency and performance, and contribute directly to the long-term success of the organization.

• Partner with plant engineering, programming, operations, and production teams across Thread lock to strengthen manufacturing and process engineering capability.
• Help establish consistent engineering practices, standards, and expectations across locations while allowing flexibility for plant-specific needs.
• Support plant teams in developing and improving CNC manufacturing processes for new and existing work, including routings, setup strategies, tooling, machining methods, and production readiness.
• Work with technical teams to address complex manufacturing challenges and help ensure the right resources, expertise, and support are brought together to resolve them.
• Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across locations so successful processes, tooling strategies, programming approaches, and lessons learned can be leveraged throughout Thread lock.
• Help capture and standardize critical manufacturing knowledge to reduce reliance on tribal knowledge and improve consistency across locations.

• Partner with plant teams to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve throughput, repeatability, process stability, equipment utilization, and production flow.
• Support efforts to reduce cycle time, setup time, scrap, rework, variation, and other non-value-added activity.
• Help teams use production data, process observation, and employee input to identify constraints, understand root causes, and develop sustainable improvements.
• Facilitate cross-functional problem solving for recurring manufacturing and process performance issues, partnering with Quality and other functions as needed.
• Maintain visibility to key improvement initiatives and help ensure actions are implemented, measured, and sustained.

• Support and develop manufacturing engineers, programmers, machinists, and other technical resources through coaching, collaboration, and shared problem solving.
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