Manufacturing Engineering Manager

About the role

Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE "HAYW") is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world, with a significant and growing presence in the commercial pool market. Hayward designs, manufactures, and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment, including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, salt chlorinators, automation, lighting, safety, flow control, and energy solutions at company-owned facilities. This role is based in Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities

• Lead the manufacturing engineering function to support safe, efficient, and high-quality production of residential and commercial pool and spa products.
• Drive process excellence, capital deployment, automation, and new product introductions while developing and mentoring a team of manufacturing engineers.
• Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Product Management, and Product Engineering to deliver continuous improvement, cost reduction, and scalable manufacturing solutions.
• Apply past experience with automation for low- to medium-volume assembly, testing, and packaging.
• Develop production equipment, tooling, and fixtures, including design, justification, specification, and qualification.
• Utilize Statistical Process Control and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Multitask using software planning tools and reports to track and maintain on-time scheduling of resources.
• Support all current and new product introductions.
• Demonstrate project management ability, facilitating groups and negotiating effectively with key suppliers.
• Interface with external vendors to source high-quality equipment and fixtures.
• Collaborate as part of a team to identify opportunities, product and equipment weaknesses, and solve problems through consensus.
• Assist in developing plant layout for better utilization of space, equipment, and operations.
• Familiarity with manufacturing documents: BOMs, Routers, Manufacturing Instructions, work orders, etc., and create and maintain production routers.
• Work with CAD software such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks to generate engineering drawings.
• Support production through efficient identification and resolution of line issues.
• Identify and initiate process improvement projects that impact product quality and process yield; recommend improvements, troubleshoot problems, and develop corrective actions.
• Work with Design Engineers to ensure products are designed for manufacturing and that processes are capable of producing them to specification and quality requirements.
• Develop a team of manufacturing engineers and technicians to maximize department productivity.

Requirements

• BS in an applicable engineering field or other technical degree.
• 7+ years of experience in field or related experience.
• Knowledge of CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD, SolidWorks), Excel, and MS Word.
• PC computer proficiency with MS Office.

Qualifications

• Lead efforts to improve the financial impact of technical activities on the business, with a thorough understanding of how other functions impact operations.
• Perfect existing specialized technologies and leverage them across products and facilities.
• Skilled at customer presentations, communicating, and influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to explore new or "leading edge" technologies that provide competitive advantage.
• Manage and complete large system projects with strategic platform impact.
• Provide technical assessments of situations within normal scope of influence; recognized as a subject matter expert within the company.
• Assess continuation risk and quality of previous work on projects, identifying areas for business process improvements.
• Leadership role in building departmental capabilities through mentoring and development of others.