Manufacturing Engineer

Our client is a market leader in portable and permanent hardwood sports flooring systems looking to add a Manufacturing Engineer to the team.
The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for improving manufacturing processes, equipment reliability, safety, quality, productivity, and cost. This position leads continuous improvement initiatives, manages manufacturing and capital projects, and partners with Production, Maintenance, Quality, and Safety to improve overall plant performance

The Manufacturing Engineer ideally will be familiar with manufacturing processes and systems.

Manufacturing Engineer

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field; equivalent relevant manufacturing experience may be considered.
• Manufacturing, process engineering, maintenance engineering, reliability, or similar industrial experience.
• Strong mechanical and technical problem-solving skills with experience in continuous improvement and structured root cause analysis.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities and communicate effectively with operators, skilled trades, engineers, contractors, and plant leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• 3-7+ years of manufacturing engineering or related experience.
• Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma training/certification and experience with 5S, Kaizen, Standard Work, FMEA, and Value Stream Mapping.
• Capital project, equipment installation, CMMS, and preventive/predictive maintenance experience.
• Knowledge of automated equipment, PLC-controlled systems, robotics, industrial controls, AutoCAD, Solid Works, or similar engineering software.

Manufacturing Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

Process & Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements in safety, quality, productivity, cost, throughput, and equipment performance.
• Lead Lean and continuous improvement activities using tools such as 5S, Kaizen, Standard Work, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, and FMEA.
• Analyze production processes, downtime, cycle times, workflow, capacity, and equipment utilization to identify improvement opportunities.
• Eliminate waste, bottlenecks, process variation, unnecessary motion, and recurring production issues.
• Develop and maintain standard work, process documentation, and manufacturing procedures.
• Identify opportunities for automation, tooling improvements, equipment upgrades, and process simplification.

Safety

• Incorporate safety and ergonomics into equipment, process, and facility improvements.
• Partner with Safety, Production, and Maintenance to identify hazards and implement engineering controls.
• Conduct risk assessments for new and existing equipment and processes.
• Participate in incident investigations and develop engineering solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure new equipment and modifications meet applicable safety and company requirements.

Project Management

• Lead manufacturing and capital projects from concept through installation, startup, and final validation.
• Develop project scope, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate equipment suppliers, contractors, Production, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, and other stakeholders.
• Manage equipment installations, facility improvements, process changes, and manufacturing technology projects.
• Track project milestones, costs, risks, and deliverables and communicate status to plant leadership.
• Develop cost estimates, business cases, and ROI analyses for proposed projects.
• Ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and achieve defined performance objectives.

Maintenance & Equipment Reliability

• Partner with Maintenance to improve equipment reliability, maintainability, and uptime.
• Analyze downtime and maintenance data to identify chronic and high-impact equipment failures.
• Lead root cause analysis of recurring failures and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Support development and optimization of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Identify opportunities to reduce reactive maintenance and increase planned maintenance.
• Improve equipment accessibility, serviceability, standardization, and spare-parts strategies.
• Support maintenance KPIs including equipment uptime, MTBF, MTTR, PM completion, and planned versus unplanned maintenance.
• Ensure equipment upgrades consider long-term reliability and maintainability.

Manufacturing Support

• Provide technical support to Production and Maintenance during equipment and process problems.
• Troubleshoot issues…