Manufacturing Engineering - Manager

About the role

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Build Effective Teams: Create a strong team identity by leveraging diverse skills and perspectives, ensuring everyone is aligned around shared goals and empowered to contribute meaningfully.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Develop productive partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders, working collaboratively to remove barriers, streamline processes, and achieve shared business outcomes.
• Communicate with Clarity: Deliver clear, audience-specific communication across multiple channels, ensuring alignment, transparency, and understanding at every level of the organization.
• Cultivate Innovation: Introduce new ideas, tools, and process improvements that enhance efficiency, strengthen operational performance, and support long-term organizational success.
• Develop Talent: Coach and mentor team members to help them grow their capabilities, advance their career goals, and contribute more effectively to the organization’s objectives.
• Drive Results: Maintain a strong focus on execution, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes even in challenging or fast-changing environments.
• Champion Health & Safety: Model proactive safety behaviors, identify risks, and support actions that build an interdependent, injury-free workplace culture.
• Manage Complexity & Align Work: Navigate complex information, balance stakeholder needs, and prioritize work effectively to ensure plans, resources, and actions align with organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Leverage 7–10 years of plant manufacturing experience to lead engineering strategy, guide technical decisions, and support complex operations across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacity expansion workstreams.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of capital projects—defining scope, building business cases, engaging vendors, and ensuring safe, on-time, on-budget execution with reliable startup and performance outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, HSE, and Planning to lead major site transitions, deploy automation, reconfigure lines, relocate equipment, and introduce new processes while balancing stakeholder needs.
• Apply advanced manufacturing, automation, and process-optimization skills to improve capacity, throughput, and productivity while ensuring engineering ownership of HSE risk reduction, machine safety, ergonomics, emissions control, and OEE stabilization.
• Provide technical leadership in automation and advanced manufacturing, including technology evaluation, OEE improvement, and stabilization of automated systems post-launch.
• Ensure effective cross-functional interface, aligning with enterprise stakeholders on priorities, timelines, risks, and execution plans.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams, including workload prioritization, coaching, capability development, and succession planning.
• Maintain strong execution discipline through structured project reviews, risk escalation, and performance reporting.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of plant manufacturing experience, with demonstrated leadership in a high-volume or complex production environment.
• Site Manufacturing Engineering leadership experience, providing daily technical direction across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacity-expansion operations.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end capital projects, including scope development, business case creation, vendor management, execution oversight, and safe, on-time startup.
• Strong cross-functional engineering support capability for major initiatives such as automation deployment, line reconfiguration, equipment moves, and new process introductions.
• Demonstrated success driving capacity, throughput, and productivity improvements through process optimization, equipment upgrades, and standard work implementation.
• Expertise in HSE-focused engineering, including machine safety, ergonomics, dust/emission controls, PIV engineering controls, and closure of risk assessments with engineered solutions.

Qualifications

• College, university, or degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or related field, or equivalent experience required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
• Significant level of relevant work experience, including supervisory and leadership experience.

Location: Plainfield, IN