Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Purpose: Performs all managerial responsibilities for the manufacturing engineering team as well as assisting with maintenance, tooling, environmental compliance, new products, and capital project work. Ensures all safety, quality and production standards are met or exceeded and that utilization of the Lean principles are built into every process and project. Partners with the leadership team in developing and implementation of long-range plans to assure the facility continues to stay technologically advanced in capital equipment and engineering human resources.**Job Qualifications**:- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering- Experience Required:- Minimum of six to eight years of experience in a manufacturing environment plus minimum two years supervisory experience- 3D modeling, mechanical design.** knowledge in plastic extrusion process**Preferred:- Eight to ten years of experience in a production fabrication environment plus five years supervisory experience. Automation experience including MIG welding.**Skills**:- Strong Engineering skills and deep product knowledge- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with a large range of people including Operations leaders, production team members, and all departments within the company- Leadership, organizational, and strategic planning skills- Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously- Strong understanding of Lean concepts.**Job Duties & Responsibilities**:- Managers and directs the Manufacturing Engineering function to ensure all assigned duties are completed in a timely, quality minded, and cost-effective manner.- Assures documentation regarding internal procedures for component production are available, current and accurate (i.e., bills of material and manufacturing routings, etc.).- Assures time standards are established and maintained for all significant direct and indirect labor operations.- Works to develop manufacturing processes that optimize the most efficient production methods and workplace layout utilizing the lean principles and methodologies.- Strongly advocates total quality concepts of customer requirements, continuous improvement, goals, measurements, etc.- Coordinates corrective actions: through end-of-run meetings and production notes driving suggestions for design changes to improve manufacturability and process innovation.- Responsible for the factory capacity at a machine level (theoretical) and coordinates with operations and planning to insure optimum capacity utilization and efficiency.- Works with other departments to assure schedules and capacities are adequate to support marketing requirements.- Research and develop utilization of innovative technology to improve product efficient manufacturability and cost.- Responsible for injection molding processes and standards. Improves molding quality using mold pressure and computer control technologyProject Engineering- Stay current in and coordinate the introduction of innovative technologies, processes, and procedures to enhance and facilitate quality and productivity improvements.- Analyzes and recommends ideas and drives changes, including any capital expenditures to reduce/improve energy consumption/utilization.- Analyzes, designs, and implements changes to plant layout utilizing lean principles for all equipment to improve productivity, quality, and operator safety in coordination with Operations leadership.- Responsible for the overall project management and coordination for capital projects. Coordinates capital project implementation including justification, competitive bidding, and program completion.New Product Development- Responds to request for quotes on all new products requested.- Ensures all manufacturing documentation is ready, on-time for the first production run.- Utilizes Lean principles in process development and design for driving set up time reductions, waste elimination and standardized operating procedures through the new product development cycle.- Implements concurrent engineering practices - promoting team building at all levels and focusing on “design for manufacturing” practices.- Works with Quality department on process capability studies to assess product designs and our manufacturing processes.- Works with Design engineering to produce prototype as needed.Tooling- Responsible for tooling design, supervision of fabrication, and procurement if needed to meet production needs.- Ensures all new production tooling is completed and available by production startup.- Maintains the tool log system for tracking and approving all controlled tools throughout the plant.- Establishes preventative maintenance schedules to ensure tooling is safe and producing high quality components.- Responsible for supervisor repairing molds and tooling.**Financial and Budget Control**- Works with the Operations leadership team to develop and execute a strategic long range capital plan- App