Director, Manufacturing Engineering

ZT Systems•Georgetown, TX

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Manufacturing Engineering leads the Texas manufacturing campus’s Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Test Engineering, Test Automation, NPI Engineering, and Customer TPM activities. As the site’s senior engineering leader, this role drives factory performance, operational excellence, manufacturing readiness, automation, test strategy, and successful product launches for data center rack and integrated infrastructure manufacturing. The Director is accountable for site objectives related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction, and reports directly to the General Manager. The role executes and sustains the global engineering standards, processes, governance, and operating models established by the Global Director of Engineering in New Jersey. The successful candidate combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to build a high-performing engineering organization that can support rapid growth, operational excellence, and world-class manufacturing performance. The role leads local engineering execution while maintaining global consistency across the manufacturing network, working closely with the Global Director of Engineering and collaborating with Platform Engineering on product-related responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
10+ years of engineering leadership experience in manufacturing environments.
Experience leading Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Automation, and NPI organizations.
Proven success driving operational excellence, productivity, quality, and manufacturing scale.
Strong customer-facing experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Experience in data center infrastructure, server, electronics, rack integration, or related manufacturing environments preferred.
Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Test Engineering, Test Automation, NPI Engineering, and Customer TPM teams for the Texas campus.
Develop site engineering capability, technical expertise, and engineering leadership; support factory growth, capacity expansion, and operational scalability.
Build a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Improve First Pass Yield (FPY), Rolled Throughput Yield (RTPY), DPPM, productivity, throughput, cycle time, labor efficiency, and cost performance.
Optimize manufacturing processes and factory flows, support daily production execution and factory performance reviews, and ensure site engineering and operational KPIs are achieved.
Deploy factory automation strategies aligned with global engineering roadmaps, including robotics, automated assembly, vision systems, digital manufacturing tools, and test automation systems.
Own site-level test engineering performance and deployment of standardized test platforms; improve diagnostics, traceability, test coverage, and operational efficiency.
Lead manufacturing readiness for product introductions at the Texas facility and execute NPI phase-gate requirements and readiness reviews.
Ensure readiness of manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment, automation, test systems, capacity, and staffing for product introductions.
Lead pilot builds, process validation, launch readiness reviews, and production ramp activities.
Lead customer-facing TPM resources for Texas-based programs; participate in customer reviews, readiness assessments, escalation management, and operational reviews.
Translate customer requirements into manufacturing execution plans.
Drive Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, and SPC methodologies, leading initiatives for yield improvement, cost reduction, productivity gains, waste elimination, and capacity improvements.
Establish rigorous performance reviews and execution management systems.
Execute and sustain global engineering standards, SOPs, manufacturing process and test engineering standards, automation architecture standards, NPI phase-gate processes, governance models, KPI review processes, best-practice deployment, and continuous improvement methodologies.
Maintain local execution while ensuring global consistency and standardization across the manufacturing network.
Own the Texas Manufacturing Engineering organization, process and industrial engineering, test engineering and test automation, manufacturing and factory readiness, production launch execution, site operational KPIs, Customer TPM resources, and continuous improvement execution.