Engineering Manager

Full-time, onsite position in Johnson City, TN. U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required.

About the role

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team spanning process, controls, reliability, facilities, and maintenance. Drive capital planning, process optimization, automation, and team development to deliver operational excellence, safety, and scalability in a high-precision, continuous process plant.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing multidisciplinary engineering team covering process, controls, reliability, facilities, and maintenance
• Lead capital planning, CAPEX budgeting, and operating expense management for Engineering and Maintenance
• Lead projects focused on process optimization, automation, and continuous improvement
• Develop and improve manufacturing processes using Lean and Six Sigma principles, including kaizen events
• Ensure process scalability from prototype through to full production
• Oversee troubleshooting and root cause analysis for quality, productivity, and safety issues
• Lead initiatives on scrap reduction, OEE improvement, cost reduction, and uptime reliability
• Define and maintain equipment specifications, standards, and vendor performance expectations
• Implement and manage the CMMS, ensuring preventive and predictive maintenance strategies are fully deployed
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) and engineering change processes to ensure manufacturability and production readiness
• Develop role-based expectations, succession plans, and talent development paths
• Collaborate with Corporate Engineering on standards and strategy, and with Quality, Sales, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and HR
• Provide data-driven updates on project status, engineering metrics, and maintenance performance
• Drive a culture of safety, continuous improvement, accountability, teamwork, and integrity
• Travel occasionally to other plant locations and vendors as required

Requirements

• BS degree in engineering or a related technical discipline (advanced degree preferred)
• 10+ years' relevant engineering experience, with a proven track record managing a full engineering group
• Experience in extrusion, extraction, coating, polymer processing, specialty films, battery, or another high-precision continuous process industry
• Demonstrable CAPEX project management expertise
• Proven ability to develop technical talent and lead multidisciplinary teams
• Genuine expertise in continuous improvement, Lean, and Six Sigma—used as tools to change how a plant works, not as theory
• Strong analytical mindset, with real capability in root cause analysis, statistical problem solving, and structured decision making
• An effective communicator who can tailor the message to technical and non-technical audiences and drive buy-in for changes
• Confident presenting technical data and project status to internal stakeholders and customers
• Strong decision making and prioritization in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Relocation assistance for U.S. citizens (regional candidates preferred)
• Full ownership of the engineering function on a growing, heavily invested site
• Opportunity to work in a business scaling quickly in a high-technology sector with capital backing

Pay

$155,000 - $165,000 base salary, dependent on experience, plus bonus potential of up to 20%.