Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager
About the role
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Honeywell Aerospace, you will lead a team of Manufacturing Engineers responsible for supporting daily manufacturing operations, improving production processes, and driving operational excellence across our South Bend manufacturing facility. You will play a critical leadership role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production while leading strategic initiatives focused on productivity, quality, cost reduction, and continuous improvement. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Manufacturing Engineering, you will oversee a team of approximately 12 Manufacturing Engineers and serve as a key partner to Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and Product Engineering leaders. This position is based at South Bend site, a major aerospace manufacturing operation specializing in aircraft wheels, brakes, fuel controls, and related systems. The facility is recognized as a world leader in the production of steel and carbon brakes for commercial and military aircraft.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development for a team of Manufacturing Engineers.
- Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and drive execution against operational and strategic objectives.
- Build organizational capability through mentoring, succession planning, performance management, and talent development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Provide engineering leadership and support for day-to-day production activities.
- Drive rapid resolution of manufacturing issues impacting safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Lead disposition and resolution of non-conforming material, production disruptions, and manufacturing challenges.
- Partner closely with production teams to maintain operational continuity and improve manufacturing performance.
- Lead Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence initiatives across manufacturing operations.
- Identify opportunities to improve throughput, reduce waste, increase capacity, and improve product quality.
- Utilize root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies to eliminate recurring issues.
- Develop and implement long-term manufacturing strategies that improve efficiency and competit