Engineering Manager

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Full Time Waxahachie, TX, US

17 days ago Requisition

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

This is a senior leadership role for an engineering professional who is ready to own something significant. As the Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Americase, you will lead a cross-functional team of designers, programmers, and an industrial engineer through the full lifecycle of design-to-production; transforming customer requirements and proof-of-concept designs into fully manufacturable, production-ready solutions.

You will be the organization's primary engineering execution hub, receiving work through both direct Sales intake and the NPI channel, and setting the standard for how engineering work gets done, with a focus on quality, speed, and reliability. This is a role built for someone who combines deep technical grounding in manufacturing engineering with the leadership skills to develop teams, build systems, and drive continuous improvement across the function.

If you have spent your career building things that work (processes, teams, standards, and products) and you are ready to lead an engineering function where your decisions matter from the drafting stage all the way to the production floor, we want to hear from you.

• Own, formalize, and continuously improve the company's design standards and styles product catalog;transforming what exists today into a documented, usable reference that Sales can use to pre-qualify and route incoming customer requests.
• Collaborate with Sales to ensure the catalogremainscurrent, clearly communicated, and accurately reflects organizational capabilities and capacity.
• Triage and prioritize work arriving from both the Sales and NPI channels, revising schedules across multiple work streams to best meet customer commitments.
• Lead the engineering team through the complete cycleofdesign, approval, CNC programming, and FAI packet release,ensuring every handoff to production is complete and production ready.
• Establish and enforce a formal design review and approval workflow with clear handoff criteria so work leaving the team is consistently defectfree.
• Apply knowledge of CNC programming, machine capabilities, and manufacturing methods to guide the team's technical decisions and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Develop and maintain bills of materials for manufactured products, including design changes and instructions.
• Serve as the formal approval gate for all FAI reports following Manufacturing Readiness execution — assess findings, direct corrective action, anddeterminewhen issues require formal root cause analysis.
• Review, approve, or reject RCA documentation for FAI-related issues; direct the engineering team to execute approved redesign or reprogramming changes.
• Ensure all approved changes are fully incorporated into the final manufacturing-ready packet before release back to production.
• Consult with Production Operations, Quality,Purchasing, and Production Planning as neededregardingmodifications to work orders and prints.

• Track and report on design-to-production cycle time, FAI packet quality, and rework rates; use data to drive recommendations for forecasting and improvement.
• Establish production and quality control standards for the department, incorporating measurable metrics including cycle time, handoff quality, and defect reduction.
• Develop and implement methods and procedures designed toeliminaterecurring operating problems and raise the quality of team output over time.
• Direct and coordinate all department activities; plan andestablishoutput priorities aligned with operational effectiveness and cost targets.
• Lead staff development through thoughtful selection, onboarding, training, and performance management,including scheduled performance reviews and monthly coaching sessions for all direct reports.
• Partner with internal stakeholders on staffing needs; lead the department's hiring and onboarding processes.
• Foster a team culture built on…