Sr. Manufacturing Solutions Engineer

Overview

When Alfred Fain founded a small Rhode Island tire store in 1924, at the time no one could have predicted how Teknor Apex would become an international custom compo under sought out by companies around the world. After a nearly hundred-year journey that’s carried us through acquisitions and expansion, we now have nine U.S. locations, as well as operations in Belgium, Singapore, Germany, and China.

Throughout this global expansion Teknor has remained a privately held company, and today Fain's grandson sits at the helm, maintaining the family's tradition of fostering deep employee and customer relationships. These relationships are what allow us-together to deliver customized compound solutions and help our customer's create better products.

"Manufacturing is a team sport, and we work together to achieve our goals." ~Jon Fain

Teknor Apex is a global provider of compounding solutions, driven by technical expertise, customer focus, innovation, partnership, sustainability, and integrity. With operations across North America, Europe, and Asia, we bring together global talent and capabilities to deliver customized solutions for customers worldwide.

The Senior Manufacturing Solutions Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting software solutions that improve business processes, manufacturing operations, quality systems, supply chain performance, and operational efficiency across the organization. This role serves as both a technical leader and hands‑on developer, partnering with stakeholders throughout the business to identify opportunities and deliver innovative software solutions that drive measurable value.

Our Ops Excellence software function is in active transition, moving from traditional application development toward agentic programming, where AI agents plan, generate, test, and help maintain significant portions of our software under engineer direction, and this role will be central to that shift.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering expertise with an understanding of industrial and manufacturing environments needs, enabling them to translate operational challenges into scalable digital solutions from beginning to end. Just as important, the ideal candidate is genuinely energized by the leading edge of agentic AI development tools, comfortable directing and reviewing AI-generated code, and eager to help redefine how our team builds and ships software going forward.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain custom software applications supporting manufacturing and business operations.
• Lead the architecture and technical design of enterprise applications, integrations, and data solutions.
• Develop web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and API-based solutions as required by business needs.
• Adopt and champion agentic programming practices, using AI coding agents to plan, generate, test, and refactor code, while retaining accountability for architecture, correctness, and quality of the delivered solution.
• Design and orchestrate AI agent workflows (e.g., via API, MCP servers, and related tooling) to automate development tasks, manufacturing data workflows, and operational reporting.
• Establish software development standards, coding practices, and documentation requirements, including guardrails and review practices specific to agent-generated code.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with company technology strategies.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, and other business functions to identify opportunities for digital transformation.
• Develop and support integrations between ERP, MES, quality, warehouse, and production systems.
• Serve as the…