Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Position Type: Full Time/1 st Shift/Exempt

Reports To: Director of Operations

Working Hours: Monday – Thursday (6:00a-4:30p)

Interested in playing a pivotal technical leadership role in one of the most established and capable contract manufacturers in the region? Join a growth-minded, problem-solving, and innovation-driven team that continues to pilot an established, growing company. The Manufacturing Engineering Manager is the technical owner of our CNC manufacturing processes. This role combines deep expertise in CNC programming, machining, tooling, work holding, process planning, automation, and structured problem solving with strong project leadership.

The position owns the ongoing control and relentless improvement of current production processes and serves as project manager for significant new-part launches, from manufacturability review through stable production. The successful candidate will challenge how work is done, replace tribal knowledge with engineered standards.

• Own the technical manufacturing process for production throughout the product lifecycle, from process definition through sustained production.
• Develop and maintain robust manufacturing methods for parts produced from castings, forgings, bar stock, billet, and other raw material forms.
• Maintain disciplined control of CNC programs, setup documentation, tool lists, fixtures, critical parameters, process drawings, and other manufacturing standards.
• Reduce dependence on tribal knowledge by converting proven practices into controlled, repeatable processes and clear work instructions.
• Establish an engineering change process for significant modifications to released manufacturing methods and verify changes before full production release.
• Partner with Quality to identify critical process characteristics and establish appropriate controls, validation methods, and reaction plans.
• Use capability studies, SPC, inspection results, tooling data, machine data, and production performance to determine whether processes are truly stable and capable.
• Engineer logic, decisions, and variability out of the process, so repeatable results do not depend on operator heroics.
• Ensure manufacturing engineering practices support company quality requirements and applicable ISO 9001/AS9100 systems.

• Serve as a highest-level technical resource for CNC machining, programming, tooling, fixturing, feeds and speeds & processes.
• Develop, review, troubleshoot, and optimize CNC programs for complex, tight-tolerance production applications, including multi-axis processes where applicable.
• Lead selection and standardization of cutting tools, holders, work holding, probing strategies, and machining parameters to improve repeatability, tool life, cycle time, and cost per part.
• Troubleshoot difficult machining issues including chatter, distortion, chip control, tool wear, surface finish, thermal effects, tolerance stack-up, machine capability, and process instability.

• Act as the technical beacon for manufacturing improvement and maintain an active pipeline of high-impact process improvement opportunities.
• Continuously improve cycle time, setup time, machine utilization, throughput, tool life, tooling cost, scrap, rework, etc.
• Use data, observation, experimentation, structured root‑cause analysis, and Lean principles to identify constraints and eliminate waste
• Identify and lead opportunities to increase unattended production, reduce variability, improve ergonomics, and increase productive spindle time through automation and technology.
• Evaluate and implement appropriate applications for robotic or cobot…