Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Parker Aerospace is a global leader in advanced motion and control technologies, supporting some of the world’s most important aircraft and aerospace programmes. Our teams design, manufacture, and support high-performance systems that help make flight safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

Joining Parker means becoming part of a purpose-driven, engineering-led business with strong values, world‑class technology, and real opportunities to grow. You’ll work on meaningful aerospace challenges, collaborate with talented people, and contribute to innovations that keep the world moving.

In the role of Manufacturing Engineering Manager you will lead a technical team responsible to create, maintain and optimize production processes, ensuring high-quality product output, cost efficiency, and safety compliance. You will oversee facility layout, equipment installation, and lean manufacturing initiatives while managing budgets, project timelines, and staff. You will ensure clear and effective communication with other departments such as, safety, quality, production, finance, supply chain, R&D, repair and others.

Provide inspiring, hands‑on leadership to the Manufacturing Engineering team by setting a clear vision, priorities, and performance expectations aligned with plant and business objectives. Focusing on talent development, coach and develop team members through regular feedback, mentoring, and individual development plans to build technical capability and engagement. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and safety, while ensuring the team has the resources and support needed to deliver results through capability studies and takt analysis.

Partner with R&D to provide Design for Manufacturability and process engineering input and ensure products are designed for efficient and scalable production. Lead the industrialization of new products by applying established methods and industry best practices. Define and maintain the recurring cost (RC) throughout the product lifecycle to ensure sustainable, profitable margins for the company.

Develop, implement, and maintain manufacturing systems, including routings, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and equipment technical specifications. Ensure compliance with quality standards by delivering effective training to production teams. Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, and lead corrective actions for process or products nonconformities (NC). Develop and drive the sites tooling, colling and OEE strategy to support the Win Strategy.

Lead lean manufacturing and automation initiatives (e.g., Six Sigma, Kaizen) to improve productivity and repeatability, reduce waste, and enhance overall operational performance. In collaboration with Production and Operational Excellence (OpEx), design and implement production line layouts to optimize workflow, cycle times, and space utilization.

Own the strategy for capital equipment Drive a capital equipment strategy across multiple production sites by centralizing governance while empowering site‑level execution, focusing on asset visibility, risk ranking, and total cost of ownership.

• Degree in mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering (or equivalent technical discipline) to understand manufacturing processes, tooling, and shop‑floor constraints.
• And /or Relevant experience: 10-15 years in manufacturing/industrial engineering or process engineering, including 5+ years leading teams with demonstrated delivery of process improvements and/or product launches.
• Demonstrated…