Sr. Manager, Engineering

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to join our team in Corona, CA.

• Manage and develop team responsible for sustainably sustaining, optimization, and implementation of manufacturing processes and equipment achieving Quality requirements.
• Implement Quality Strategic Plan from customer expectations and feedback down to internal quality standards, integrating leading indicators to drive proactive engineering mechanisms based on advanced quality tools, create a problem‑solving culture, and manage a data‑driven engineering team to take/define actions.
• Drive process design to ensure sustainability, continuous improvement, and process stability; lead the Quality at Source mindset across the Corona Factory with value‑stream supervisors.
• Gather engineering data from inspection or audit processes and provide statistical results to identify areas of engineering opportunity; lead cross‑functional teams of quality and process engineers through daily material review boards for quality control.
• Establish, implement, and monitor plans and engineering programs for quality improvement.
• Manage engineering processes and ensure quality process engineering implementation to attain organizational goals.
• Oversee sustaining and continuous improvement goals of the process engineering team to reach defined first‑pass yield goals.
• Analyze data with the team to correlate yield and fallout to breakdown engineering opportunities by priority.
• Lead productive processes that conclude with products and/or services meeting quality standards based on appropriate regulations; manage shop floor with an engineering focus and hands‑on mentality.
• Link customer and process quality key process indicators (KPIs) by applying problem‑solving methodologies.
• Coach quality engineers and process manufacturing engineers on advanced quality tools (SQDC, MDI, leading/lagging KPI, FMEA, MSA, 5S, RCCA, A3, 8D).
• Apply TPS/Lean manufacturing practices (including A3, PDCA, 5S, Kaizen activities, Poke‑Yoke) to manufacturing engineering.
• Supervise manufacturing operations and manufacturing robotics for NPI and R&D products.
• Implement tactical management for the Daily Improvement System to ensure campus management agenda, including strategy, visibility, and planning.
• Report performance, evaluate and promote customer requirements to improve customer satisfaction; coordinate interaction between key stakeholders (e.g., Operations & Supply Chain).

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechatronic, Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering and 3 years of engineering management experience within the medical device, aerospace, or automotive industries.
• Must possess 3 years of experience with:
• TPS / Lean manufacturing practices (A3, PDCA, 5S, Kaizen activities, Poke‑Yoke, and quality management system)
• Manufacturing operations for NPI and R&D products
• Manufacturing robotics operations
• Automotive paint or similar finishes.
• Six sigma Green Belt or Six sigma Black Belt.
• 5% domestic and international travel on a quarterly basis.

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans’ status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

Fender is required by law in certain jurisdictions to include a pay scale in the job posting for this position. The pay scale for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that Fender reasonably expects to pay for this position; it is neither a promise nor a guarantee of the compensation that the successful candidate will receive. If this is a remote position, the pay scale disclosed herein may be adjusted further based on the applicable geographic differential associated with the location from which the successful candidate will work.