Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing Engineer Manager

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Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

The Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the organization's manufacturing engineering, process improvement, operational excellence, and production optimization initiatives within a pressure vessel manufacturing environment. This role oversees manufacturing engineering functions while driving Lean Manufacturing principles to improve safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance.

The position serves as a strategic leader partnering with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Maintenance to develop and implement sustainable manufacturing processes, support ASME code compliance, improve production capacity, and drive continuous improvement throughout the organization.

• Provide leadership and oversight of the Manufacturing Engineering team.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing processes for fabrication, welding, machining, assembly, testing, and finishing operations.
• Design and improve production layouts, workflows, tooling, fixtures, and manufacturing methods.
• Develop and maintain routing structures, labor standards, and process documentation.
• Support new product introduction and manufacturability reviews.
• Collaborate with Design Engineering to improve product quality, manufacturability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead capital equipment evaluations, justifications, and implementation projects.
• Support capacity planning and production scalability initiatives.
• Develop and execute the company's continuous improvement strategy.
• Lead Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Drive waste elimination efforts focused on reducing non-value-added activities throughout manufacturing operations.
• Conduct Value Stream Mapping and identify opportunities to improve throughput and product flow.
• Establish continuous improvement metrics and monitor progress against organizational goals.
• Facilitate problem-solving initiatives utilizing structured methodologies.

• Improve manufacturing performance related to:
  • Productivity
  • Labor efficiency
  • Capacity utilization
  • Throughput
  • Quality
  • Delivery performance
• Develop standardized work practices across manufacturing operations.
• Implement visual management systems and performance dashboards.
• Lead bottleneck analysis and process optimization activities.

• Support compliance with:
  • ASME Section VIII
  • ASME Section IX
  • National Board requirements
  • Customer specifications
  • ISO 9001 Quality Management System requirements
• Partner with Quality and Operations teams to reduce defects, non-conformances, and rework.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective action initiatives.
• Support ASME audits, customer audits, and quality system audits.

• Lead cross-functional improvement and engineering projects from concept through implementation.
• Establish project timelines, milestones, budgets, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor project performance and sustainability of improvements.
• Present project status and business results to senior…