Smart Manufacturing Transformation Engineer

At Delta Faucet, we are committed to transforming everyday experiences with water through innovative products and exceptional service. As a leader in the plumbing industry, we take pride in our dedication to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our mission to create solutions that inspire and elevate the lives of all our customers. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us on this journey toward inclusivity and excellence.

Your Role at Delta Faucet:

The Smart Manufacturing Transformation Engineer leads the patterned advancement of Delta Faucet Company's manufacturing operations toward Industry 5.0. In this role, Industry 5.0 pairs human creativity and critical thinking with smart machinery and artificial intelligence to advance societal well-being, environmental sustainability, operational resilience, and manufacturing performance.

Using a repeatable People-Process-Technology framework, this position assesses manufacturing capabilities, defines future-state operating models, establishes enterprise standards, and delivers scalable smart-manufacturing solutions. The engineer works directly with operators, technicians, maintenance, engineering, plant leadership, Information Systems, Information Security, and external partners to ensure solutions are usable, secure, supportable, and tied to measurable business outcomes.

The role is accountable for strengthening workforce capability, improving operational performance, increasing resilience, and enabling sustainable growth across the DFC manufacturing network, including the integration of new or acquired facilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

PEOPLE: HUMAN-CENTERED MANUFACTURING TRANSFORMATION Partner with operators, technicians, engineers, supervisors, and plant leaders to identify opportunities that improve safety, employee effectiveness, decision-making, and the overall work experience.

Lead plant-floor observations, discovery sessions, capability assessments, and future-state workshops that give employees an active role in shaping transformation.

Design solutions that augment human expertise and critical thinking rather than focusing solely on automation or labor replacement.

Translate workforce and operational needs into clear business, process, data, user-experience, and technical requirements.

Enable intuitive manufacturing visibility through contextualized dashboards, digital work instructions, connected-worker tools, and knowledge-management solutions.

Develop change-management, communication, training, adoption, and reinforcement plans for smart-manufacturing initiatives.

Build networks of plant champions, process owners, and subject-matter experts who sustain adoption, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement.

Measure adoption through utilization, proficiency, employee feedback, process adherence, and demonstrated business value.

PROCESS: OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, RESILIENCE, AND SUSTAINABILITY Assess manufacturing workflows, automation maturity, data availability, system dependencies, workforce readiness, and governance practices across DFC facilities.

Document current-state process flows, information flows, decision points, system interactions, material movement, constraints, and sources of variation.

Define future-state operating models and maintain a multi-year smart-manufacturing roadmap aligned with business strategy and plant priorities.

Apply a patterned transformation method spanning assessment, prioritization, design, pilot, validation, deployment, stabilization, sustainment, and continuous improvement.

Prioritize initiatives using employee impact, safety, quality, throughput, downtime, resilience, sustainability, cybersecurity, implementation risk, scalability, and expected value.

Develop business cases that define outcomes, CAPEX and OPEX assumptions, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and value-realization measures.

Design capabilities that improve continuity and recovery from equipment failures, workforce constraints, cyber events, technology outages, and supply-chain disruption.

Identify opportunities to improve energy and water use, production yield, material consumption, scrap, equipment utilization, and maintenance effectiveness.

Lead post-implementation reviews and incorporate results, corrective actions, and lessons learned into standards and deployment playbooks.

TECHNOLOGY: INTELLIGENT AND CONNECTED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Develop and maintain reference architectures for…