Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location: New Bremen

Senior Manufacturing Engineer
- Paint Line

Location: New Bremen, OH 45869 - Client is willing to pay for relocation including temporary housing, white glove moving/packing services, etc.

Work Model: Onsite

Employment Type: Full-Time

Schedule: Approximately 6:30 AM-3:00 PM, with some flexibility

Travel: Approximately 5-10%

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer
- Paint Line to provide technical leadership and process ownership for an industrial paint operation.

This position requires direct experience with industrial powder coating and/or wet paint processes
. The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and improving the existing paint line while leading future-state improvements, capital projects, equipment upgrades, and process optimization.

This individual will own the process from when unpainted components enter the line through washing/pretreatment, coating, curing, and delivery of the finished painted product.

The role will also lead and mentor a team of approximately 4-5 Manufacturing Engineering and Process Technician resources
, making demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, and team development experience essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical leader and process owner for industrial paint operations.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, improve, and optimize powder-coating and/or wet-paint processes and equipment
  .
• Lead improvements focused on safety, quality, capacity, reliability, productivity, and cost reduction.
• Ensure paint-line equipment and processes operate according to production and quality requirements.
• Lead future-state projects while maintaining the performance of existing operations.
• Develop and execute capital projects, including equipment selection, cost analysis, layouts, scheduling, procurement, installation, and commissioning.
• Support process capability prove-out, training, documentation, and production startup.
• Apply working knowledge of industrial controls and automation to understand how paint equipment, conveyors, controls, and supporting systems interact.
• Partner with Production, Maintenance, Controls, Quality, Environmental, and Engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing issues.
• Support applicable environmental and EPA requirements associated with industrial paint and coating operations.
• Support new-product introductions, including process investigation, cost estimation, prototype manufacturing, and production readiness.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 4-5 engineers and process technicians.
• Establish team priorities, delegate responsibilities, provide technical direction, coach team members, and drive accountability.
• Lead cross-functional projects and communicate technical recommendations across all levels of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications Paint / Coating Experience

• Direct professional experience with industrial powder coating and/or wet paint processes is required.
• Must have hands‑on experience supporting, engineering, troubleshooting, maintaining, improving, or owning an industrial paint/coating process.
• General manufacturing engineering experience without direct paint/coating responsibility will not meet this requirement.

Education / Experience

Candidates must meet one of the following:

• Associate's degree or higher in an engineering, manufacturing, technical, or related discipline;
  OR
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant manufacturing/process engineering experience with a high school diploma or GED.

Leadership Experience

• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, or people leadership experience is required.
• Experience leading and developing engineers, process technicians, or similar technical manufacturing personnel.
• Ability to set priorities, delegate work, provide technical…