Engineering Manager

About the role

Our client is growing and needs a pro-active Engineering Manager to lead all engineering activities. The Engineering Manager drives process innovation, equipment design, and team development to ensure operational excellence, safety, and scalability in a fast-growing, high-technology environment. The Engineering Manager ensures safe, reliable, and scalable production capability while aligning execution with the company’s mission, growth strategy, and core values.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering team responsible for process functions.
• Lead capital planning, Capex budgeting, and operating expense for Engineering and Maintenance.
• Collaborate with Corporate Engineering to implement engineering standards and strategies.
• Drive a culture of safety, continuous improvement, accountability, teamwork, and integrity.
• Develop role-based expectations, succession plans, and talent development paths.
• Lead projects focused on process optimization, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and improve manufacturing processes using Lean and Six Sigma principles.
• Define and maintain equipment specifications, standards, and vendor performance expectations.
• Ensure process scalability from prototype to full production.
• Oversee troubleshooting and root cause analysis for quality, productivity, and safety issues.
• Lead initiatives for scrap reduction, OEE improvement, cost reduction, and uptime reliability.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) and engineering change processes to ensure manufacturability and production readiness.
• Implement and manage the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance strategies are fully deployed.
• Collaborate with Quality and Sales on customer requirements and applications.
• Ensure adherence to ISO and other applicable quality management standards.
• Provide data-driven updates on project status, engineering metrics, and maintenance performance.
• Ensure alignment with Operations, Finance, Procurement, HR, and Corporate Engineering.

Qualifications

• BS degree in engineering or related technical discipline (advanced degree preferred).
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience in battery, extrusion, coating, polymer processing, specialty film, or other high-precision continuous process industries highly preferred.
• CAPEX project management expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong decision-making and prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Expertise in Continuous Improvement, Lean, and Six Sigma.
• Effective communicator tailoring messages to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical mindset with demonstrated ability to diagnose complex process issues.
• Expertise in root cause analysis, statistical problem solving, and structured decision making.
• Willingness to travel to other plant locations and vendors as needed.

Pay

Annual base salary range: $150,000 – $165,000 USD.