Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Join us as a Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Lead the charge in building and optimizing world-class manufacturing systems while driving operational excellence across production, engineering, and maintenance. This role offers the opportunity to lead talented technical teams, develop robust manufacturing processes, and play a key role in establishing and continuously improving a high-performance manufacturing operation.

You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on execution to ensure manufacturing processes, equipment, facilities, and technical capabilities are ready to meet safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost objectives.

What will you do?

• Lead teams of manufacturing engineers, technicians, and technical professionals responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and sustaining manufacturing and maintenance systems.
• Drive manufacturing readiness for new products, processes, equipment, and production lines, ensuring successful implementation from concept through ramp-up and stabilization.
• Lead and support new plant start-up and industrialization activities, including equipment installation, process validation, capacity ramp-up, and production readiness.
• Develop and execute manufacturing strategies that improve productivity, capacity, quality, and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives focused on increasing throughput, reducing downtime, eliminating waste, and improving equipment and process performance.
• Establish and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to maximize equipment availability and reliability.
• Lead structured problem-solving for complex manufacturing, equipment, and process issues using data-driven methodologies.
• Partner closely with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Sourcing, Finance, and Engineering to achieve business objectives.
• Define and monitor manufacturing KPIs, including Safety, Quality, Delivery/Production Attainment, OEE, Productivity, Scrap, Downtime, and Cost.
• Identify capacity constraints and develop solutions to support current and future production requirements.
• Lead manufacturing cost-reduction and productivity initiatives while maintaining safety and quality standards.
• Establish standard work, operational discipline, and performance management routines within the manufacturing engineering organization.
• Direct resources, priorities, and tactical execution in alignment with strategic business priorities.
• Develop technical talent through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.
• Support capital planning, equipment selection, automation projects, and manufacturing technology investments.
• Ensure manufacturing processes comply with applicable safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

What are the key skills we are looking for?

• Influencing Skills — Advanced: Ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders toward common operational goals without relying solely on direct authority.
• Drives for Results — Advanced: Strong track record of delivering measurable improvements in safety, quality, productivity, cost, and delivery.
• Change Management — Advanced: Ability to lead teams through significant organizational, process, technology, and operational transformations.
• Continuous Improvement — Advanced: Strong understanding and practical application of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Manufacturing Process Optimization — Advanced: Ability to analyze manufacturing systems, identify constraints, and implement solutions that improve throughput, quality, and efficiency.
• People Leadership — Advanced: Proven ability to lead, develop, motivate, and hold technical teams accountable for results.
• Problem Solving — Advanced: Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and data-driven decision making.
• Automation Integration — Intermediate/Advanced: Experience implementing automation and advanced manufacturing technologies to improve safety, quality, capacity, and productivity.
• Equipment & Reliability — Advanced: Understanding of preventive/predictive maintenance, equipment reliability, downtime reduction, and maintenance strategies.
• Quality Control & Inspection — Intermediate: Understanding of quality systems, process capability, defect prevention, and manufacturing controls.
• Lean Methodology — Advanced: Practical experience applying Lean tools such as VSM, 5S, Standard Work, SMED, TPM, Kaizen, visual management, and daily management systems.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Proven leadership experience managing manufacturing engine