Engineering Manager

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Full Time Mooresville, NC, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

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Engineering Manager - Advanced Composites Manufacturing

SHD Composite Materials Inc. was incorporated in August 2018 to service the expanding American and Canadian composite industries. The North American HQ is in Mooresville, North Carolina, and became a fully operational manufacturing facility in 2019.

SHD Composite Materials Inc. manufactures advanced composite prepreg materials. With a growing global presence, the company services the American prepreg market with high‑quality prepreg, fast turnaround times, and world‑class technical support.

The company’s core strength is the ability to supply high- and low‑volume products, with a wide range of tooling and component products throughout America and around the world.

As the Engineering Manager – Advanced Composites Manufacturing, you will lead engineering operations supporting the manufacture of advanced composite prepreg materials for aerospace, defense, automotive, motor sport, marine, and industrial applications.

This leadership role is responsible for building and developing a strong engineering team, driving manufacturing excellence, optimizing processes, supporting new product industrialization, leading automation initiatives, managing capital expansion projects, and supporting SHD’s continued growth in North America.

Either a proven engineering manager or a senior manufacturing, process, project, or continuous improvement engineering leader with strong experience in advanced manufacturing environments. The ideal candidate has experience in composites, polymer processing, chemicals, coatings, aerospace materials, or continuous web manufacturing processes, and is comfortable balancing daily manufacturing support with strategic growth initiatives and long‑term operational planning.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing engineering team consisting of manufacturing, process, project, and continuous improvement engineers.
• Build a culture focused on safety, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish engineering goals, performance metrics, and professional development plans.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development initiatives for the engineering function.
• Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor to plant, operations, and corporate leadership teams.

• Provide engineering leadership for prepreg manufacturing processes, equipment, utilities, and supporting systems.
• Drive process optimization initiatives to improve quality, throughput, yield, cost performance, and operational efficiency.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex manufacturing, process, equipment, and production‑support issues.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, and root cause analysis methods to improve process capability.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, manufacturing standards, engineering best practices, and operational KPIs.
• Monitor and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness, process stability, and manufacturing performance metrics.

• Support engineering aspects of new products, new technologies, capital needs, process development, and manufacturing readiness.
• Support pilot‑scale development, process validation, and product industrialization activities.
• Develop scalable manufacturing processes for new prepreg, resin, and composite material technologies.
• Collaborate with customer, commercial, quality, and technical teams to support product qualification programs and customer requirements.
• Drive Design of Experiments, process characterization, and continuous process improvement efforts.

• Lead capital equipment, facility expansion, manufacturing scale‑up, and infrastructure projects from concept through implementation.
• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, resource…