Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Job Summary

Roles &

Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Value Stream Execution

• Lead assigned value stream projects from concept, planning, and design through implementation, validation, and production handoff.
• Own the overall project timeline, deliverables, open issues, launch readiness, and cross-functional communication for assigned projects.
• Coordinate dotted-line support from Tool Design and Project Manufacturing Engineering to ensure tooling, equipment, layouts, and process requirements are completed to project needs.
• Communicate project status, risks, constraints, and countermeasures to leadership and key stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a senior technical resource for assigned value-stream manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling and project-related issues
• Exercise independent technical judgement in evaluating complex manufacturing challenges and developing practical engineering solutions
• Provide technical direction and guidance to project engineering resources, Tool Design, production, maintenance, and other cross-functional partners.
• Establish and promote consistent engineering practices, specifications, and lessons learned to support safety, quality, cost, productivity and reliable production performance.

APQP, PFMEA & Process Development

• Develop and maintain APQP documentation, including project deliverables required for production release and handoff.
• Facilitate and maintain PFMEA documentation to identify process risks, define controls, and drive risk reduction actions.
• Develop manufacturing processes for welding, bending, and assembly operations with focus on safety, quality, manufacturability, repeatability, and throughput.
• Define process flow, standard work requirements, control plans, process parameters, and production support documentation as required.

APQP, PFMEA & Process Development

• Develop and maintain APQP documentation, including project deliverables required for production release and handoff.
• Facilitate and maintain PFMEA documentation to identify process risks, define controls, and drive risk reduction actions.
• Develop manufacturing processes for welding, bending, and assembly operations with focus on safety, quality, manufacturability, repeatability, and throughput.
• Define process flow, standard work requirements, control plans, process parameters, and production support documentation as required.

Safety, Quality, Compliance & Launch Readiness

• Ensure new or modified processes and equipment meet applicable safety, ergonomic, quality, environmental, and compliance expectations before production release.
• Coordinate trials, runoffs, capability reviews, process validation, and corrective actions needed to confirm launch readiness.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action activities related to project launches, process issues, equipment concerns, and quality escapes.
• Ensure lessons learned are documented and incorporated into future projects, standards, APQP documentation, and process improvements.

Continuous Improvement & Production Support

• Identify and implement improvements that reduce waste, improve flow, increase efficiency, improve quality, and support stable production performance.
• Partner with production, maintenance, quality, and engineering teams to resolve value-stream issues and drive effective countermeasures.
• Use manufacturing data, observations, and team feedback to prioritize improvements and support project decision making.
• Support transition of completed projects to production ownership with clear documentation, training needs, spare parts information, and follow-up expectations.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

• Typically requires 7+ years of progressively responsible manufacturing engineering experience, including demonstrated responsibility for complex projects, process development, equipment implementation, or manufacturing launches. Equivalent combinations of education and directly relevant experience may be considered.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing engineering principles in a plant environment with welding, bending, assembly, tooling, fixtures, and equipment integration.
• Ability to develop APQP documentation, PFMEA, process flow, manufacturing documentation, work packages, and launch readiness deliverables.
• Ability to manage project timelines, open items, risks, purchase activities, vendor follow-up, and cross-functional resources.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align production, maintenance, engineering, quality, safety, purchasing, and vendor teams.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability using structured root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement methods.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, layouts, specifications, process documentation, and equipment requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office or equivalent tools for project tracking, documentation, presentations, and communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting new product or new process launches in welding, bending, robotic welding, fabrication, or assembly operations.
• Experience leading APQP, PFMEA, equipment runoff, process validation, capability reviews, and production handoff activities.
• Experience with capital equipment planning, vendor management, tooling development, plant layout changes, and project cost tracking.
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Kaizen, value stream mapping, standard work, error proofing, and TPM concepts.
• Experience coordinating dotted-line or matrix resources in a project-based manufacturing environment.

Education

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field preferred.
• Associate degree or equivalent technical education with relevant manufacturing engineering, project management, tooling, process development, or plant launch experience may be considered.

In lieu of a degree, we consider equivalent, job-related experience, military service, professional certifications, and demonstrated skills. Equivalency determinations are made based on the essential functions of the role.

Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the team member must have the ability to work in extreme hot or cold conditions, stand for the duration of the shift, uses hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; ascend stairs; balance; stoop, kneel or crouch; talk and hear. In addition, the team member must occasionally lift up to (“20”, “50”, etc.) lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.

DISCLAIMER:

The information provided in the description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents within the classification. This description is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications and working conditions required of employees assigned to this job/classification. This job is intended to include the current essential functions of the job. Management reserves the right to add or modify the duties and responsibilities and to designate other functions as essential at any time.