MANUFACTURING ENGINEER – REFRIGERATION MANUFACTURING

Help Build the Factory That Takes CRAFT to the Next Level 📍 Tecate, Baja California, Mexico 🏭 New Factory | Full-Time | Primarily Production-Floor Based Do you look at a manufacturing process and immediately think, “There has to be a better way”? CRAFT is a privately held, entrepreneurial, fast-growing refrigeration manufacturer serving the U.
S. supermarket and restaurant market. We combine manufacturing in Baja California, world-class engineering, advanced refrigeration design and testing, and close collaboration with major U.
S. customers to create increasingly energy-efficient, reliable refrigeration systems with outstanding lifetime cost of ownership. And we're building a new factory in Tecate. We're looking for a hands-on Manufacturing Engineer who wants more than maintaining somebody else's processes. We want you to help build better ones. 🎯 YOUR MISSION Build and continuously improve the manufacturing processes that allow CRAFT to scale rapidly while improving: Safety
• Quality
• Productivity
• Delivery
• Operator Capability Your operating philosophy should be: Observe it. Measure it. Understand it. Improve it. Standardize it. Teach it. Verify it. Sustain it. That's the core mission of this position. 🔧 WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO This is not an engineering job where most of your time is spent behind a desk. You'll move between the engineering drawing, production data and the operator's actual workstation. You'll:
- Conduct time and motion studies and establish reliable takt, cycle and labor standards.
- Find bottlenecks and improve line balancing, layouts, workstations and material flow.
- Use SMED to attack changeover time.
- Create simple, visual Standard Work and Work Instructions that operators can actually use.
- Develop PFDs, PFMEAs and Control Plans for priority processes.
- Apply Lean, 5S, Kanban, FIFO, visual management and Poka-Yoke where they make work better.
- Use 8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, Pareto and PDCA to eliminate root causes—not just contain problems.
- Support pilot runs and turn new designs into stable, repeatable production processes.
- Train operators and verify that standardized work is understood and sustained.
- Work closely with Production, Quality, Product Engineering, Planning/Materials and Operations. The objective isn't to implement Lean tools for the sake of Lean. Make the work safer, simpler, faster, more repeatable and easier to do correctly. 🤖 AND YES — WE WANT YOU TO USE AI We're building tomorrow's factory, not yesterday's. You'll help us use AI practically to accelerate the creation, translation and continuous improvement of: Visual Work Instructions
• SOPs
• Training Materials
• Engineering-to-Operator Documentation
• Photo/Video Instructions
• Knowledge Capture AI should make engineering faster and better—but technical accuracy remains essential. Everything released to Production must be verified. 📈 WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO SHOW FOR YOUR FIRST YEAR? We want measurable results, including: ≥95% of recurring processes with documented takt, cycle and labor standards. ≥30% reduction in priority changeover times using SMED. ≥95% of critical and recurring assembly processes supported by current visual Work Instructions/SOPs. 👤 WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? You probably have:
- Engineering degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electromechanical Engineering or related discipline.
- 3+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience.
- Real experience with time studies and cycle-time analysis.
- Standard Work and visual Work Instruction development.
- Line balancing and bottleneck analysis.
- Practical Lean manufacturing.
- Structured root-cause problem solving.
- Strong Excel/data-analysis skills.
- Strong Spanish and working English.
- Most importantly: you enjoy spending substantial time on the production floor. Experience in refrigeration/HVAC, appliance or electromechanical manufacturing, high-mix manufacturing, PFMEA, Control Plans, SMED, Poka-Yoke, NPI, SPC, ERP/MRP or AI-supported manufacturing is a major plus. 🌱 CRAFT IS GROWING — AND WE WANT YOU TO GROW WITH US We want to help you become a stronger engineer and leader while CRAFT grows. You'll have access to: 👥 Two Mentors To challenge you, share experience and accelerate your professional development. 🎯 An Executive Coach To help strengthen your leadership, communication, personal effectiveness and ability to take on greater responsibility. 📚 Extensive Training Opportunities Including areas such as: Lean
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• AI & Automation
• Manufacturing Excellence
• and other capabilities we need to develop together. Come help us build something exceptional in Tecate. _____ Ayuda a Construir la Fábrica que Llevará a CRAFT al Siguiente Nivel 📍 Tecate, Baja California, México 🏭 Nueva Fábrica | Tiempo Completo | Principalmente en Piso de Producción ¿Observas un proceso de manufactura e inmediatamente piensas: “Tiene q