Senior Engineer

Posted Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM

At Seaman Corporation, every associate is instrumental to our success. Become a part of our growing team!

At Seaman Corporation, we are dedicated to creating and supplying quality, high- performance fabrics that protect our planet, our people, and our customers. From humble beginnings in 1949 to a multi-million-dollar organization, this family-owned business has grown to be a leading manufacturer in highly durable coated fabrics, supplying products to customers around the globe.

Every Seaman Corporation associate plays a valuable role in our company’s continuous growth. We believe by investing in the right people and resources, we can drive sustainable growth across the entire business.

Seaman Corporation products are composed of proprietary knitted or woven base fabrics a nd coating formulas to produce high performance roofing systems, geomembrane liners, truck tarps, architectural structures, and much more. We work exclusively with authorized fabricators, designers, consultants, engineers, and installers for quality solutions, start to finish.

• Company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexible work opportunities including flex schedules and remote work from home up to two days per week (if applicable to role)
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement, course training, and networking
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid time off (PTO), volunteer time off (VTO), and paid holidays
• Fun and engaging activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide dinner

Seaman Corporation is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Technology Team. This position will report to the Director of Research and Development.

The Senior Engineer role exists to ensure that Seaman Corporation’s products are manufacturable, scalable, and operationally robust across their life cycle. This role offers technical leadership to reduce risk and improve execution at the transition from development to production and quickly resolve yield or process capability issues for commercialized products. This anchoring role helps the organization make better decisions faster and ensures that both existing and new technology platforms perform predictably in manufacturing and reliably in the field.

Manufacturing optimization and operational support

• Diagnose chronic and acute manufacturing issues by properly identifying the problem, identifying critical variables that lead to root causes, and driving disciplined corrective action. Utilizing available resources including laboratory work, pilot plant, suppliers that propose solutions and validation with operations team and plant trials to demonstrate effectiveness.
• Identify critical process variables to improve process windows for manufacturing operations.
• Lead or co-lead production trials by establishing objectives, success criteria, sampling plans, and decision thresholds aligned with Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) expectations through trial prework rubric and trial execution
• Drive selected continuous improvement projects related to yield improvement, scrap reduction, throughput improvement, and process capability.
• Partner and Consult with Quality and Process Engineering to translate failure modes into robust test plans, specifications, and preventive controls.

Scale-up, technology transfer, and commercialization support

• Lead or support the transition of products from development through pilot and into full-scale manufacturing, utilizing the trial prework rubric and trial documentation protocol.
• Build and execute scale-up strategies that connect formulation, process conditions, equipment constraints, and end‑use performance within PLM framework.
• Serve as Technical Lead and/or PLM Project Manager for assigned projects, with accountability for technical direction, cross‑functional alignment, and completion of required PLM deliverables at later project gates.
• Ensure technical risks are identified, evaluated, and facilitate implementation as appropriate.
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