Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer II

Location:

Pensacola

Reports To:

Plant Manufacturing Engineering Manager (hard line)

Dotted Line:
Value Stream Manager

Department:
Manufacturing Engineering

• Lead day-to-day and mid-range engineering support for assigned production areas, ensuring manufacturing processes remain safe, stable, capable, documented, and scalable.
• Develop, improve, and sustain standardized work, process documentation, job instructions, control plans, PFMEA, and engineering change documentation for moderate-to-complex processes.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for quality escapes, bottlenecks, downtime, scrap, rework, labor inefficiency, and process instability, ensuring solutions address true systemic causes.
• Support and influence Tier meetings by translating production data into clear actions, escalation needs, and measurable improvement plans tied to Cpk/Ppk, scrap, downtime, throughput, productivity, and labor utilization.
• Partner with operations and quality to resolve issues quickly and permanently.
• Serve as the technical owner for assigned value stream engineering improvements, balancing short-term production support with longer-term capability, reliability, and cost reduction priorities.

• Lead Lean improvement events and waste-elimination projects using time studies, line balancing, standard work, 5S, PDCA, Kaizen, A3 thinking, and value stream analysis.
• Facilitate structured problem-solving with operators, supervisors, maintenance, quality, safety, and supply chain teams to eliminate chronic losses and prevent recurrence.
• Support the ASD Lean Operating System and ensure engineering elements are sustained on the floor.
• Identify opportunities for process simplification to improve throughput and reduce cost.
• Develop business cases, project charters, savings estimates, implementation timelines, and sustainment plans for assigned continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coach Manufacturing Engineers, technicians, supervisors, and team leads on practical Lean tools, process discipline, and effective countermeasure development.

• Lead or co-lead implementation of plant automation, tooling, and technology projects, including robotics, sensors, vision systems, PLC upgrades, mistake-proofing systems, and digital manufacturing tools.
• Partner with maintenance, controls, quality, and operations teams to diagnose complex equipment and process performance issues, define corrective actions, and validate sustained improvement.
• Design, justify, validate, and standardize tooling, jigs, fixtures, guards, workstations, and equipment modifications that improve safety, ergonomics, quality, capacity, and repeatability.
• Assist with MES, IoT, or digital factory tools to enhance process visibility and traceability.
• Evaluate new technologies, automation concepts, and supplier proposals, providing technical recommendations that align with plant priorities, payback expectations, and long‑term manufacturing strategy.

• Lead engineering support for TPM, autonomous maintenance, planned maintenance, equipment centerlining, and chronic loss elimination to improve machine reliability and process availability.
• Analyze downtime, failure modes, PM effectiveness, OEE trends, MTBF, and MTTR to prioritize corrective actions and capital or maintenance improvements.
• Collaborate with maintenance on PM tasks, equipment centerlines, and predictive maintenance enhancements (MTBF/MTTR).
• Partner with maintenance leadership to improve maintenance standards, spare parts strategies, troubleshooting methods, and handoff processes between…