Senior Manufacturing Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Orenco Systems, Inc. (subsidiary of Infiltrator Water Technologies) is a manufacturer of innovative onsite and decentralized wastewater collection and treatment technologies. Solutions include community collection systems, advanced secondary treatment systems, watertight fiberglass tanks, and in-tank pumping and filtration systems. Orenco also manufactures high-quality standard, custom, and OEM controls, along with state-of-the-art fiberglass buildings, tanks, and enclosures.

Infiltrator Water Technologies is a market leader within the onsite wastewater treatment industry, Infiltrator manufactures a variety of revolutionary products and innovative, environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional stone and pipe leach field and concrete septic wastewater system components. We sell our products through wholesale distribution across the United States and Canada for use on properties with onsite wastewater treatment systems.

Orenco's Senior Manufacturing Engineering and Maintenance Manager leads manufacturing engineering, process improvement, tooling/fabrication, automation support, and maintenance to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, equipment reliability, and production readiness. This role converts business priorities into practical engineering and maintenance strategies, standards, and projects across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Development, Quality, Finance, and Operations.

• Maintains Orenco's safety, cultural, and professional standards by promoting safe engineering practices and a positive work environment for employees, contractors, and cross-functional project teams.

• Sets department goals, staffing plans, priorities, metrics, and operating plans aligned with corporate objectives, manufacturing strategy, capacity growth, and business performance.
• Develops team capability through coaching, technical development, succession planning, performance feedback, and corrective action when needed.
• Improves engineering workflows, standard work, documentation, change control, and project intake/prioritization processes while removing barriers and reinforcing accountability, urgency, and follow-through.
• Maintains a three-year roadmap for engineering capability, capacity expansion, technology adoption, process standardization, and cost improvement.
• Leads capacity modeling, labor planning, equipment utilization, facility layout, material flow, business cases, and implementation plans for equipment, automation, tooling, and manufacturing methods.
• Supports business continuity planning for critical equipment failures, production disruptions, emergency maintenance, relocations, rebuilds, decommissioning, and equipment transfers.

• Provides leadership and oversight for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability, availability, safety, and lifecycle performance.
• Establishes maintenance priorities, schedules, performance metrics, spare-parts strategies, contractor controls, and escalation processes in coordination with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, and EHS.
• Reviews downtime trends, recurring failures, maintenance costs, compliance requirements, and root-cause corrective actions; ensures maintenance records, work orders, inspections, and equipment documentation are accurate and current.

• Converts product, process, automation, and manufacturing concepts into financially justified projects with Product Development, Research and Development, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Leads capital equipment, facility changes, tooling upgrades, automation support, process launches, and production readiness on time and within budget using structured project management tools, ownership plans, milestones, risk tracking, financial tracking, and stakeholder communication.

• Applies industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, data analysis, process capability, standard work, and waste-elimination methods to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
• Defines manufacturing engineering standards for equipment, tooling, fixtures, work methods, routings, labor standards, layouts, documentation, and production readiness.
• Improves production…