Director, Manufacturing Engineering
About The Position
The Director of Manufacturing Engineering provides enterprise leadership for manufacturing process excellence, automation, and asset reliability across Overhead Door Corporation’s eight U.S. manufacturing facilities. The role develops and executes a unified manufacturing engineering and maintenance strategy to advance productivity, equipment uptime, and technology. It integrates engineering, maintenance, and facilities functions under a shared vision, driving automation, digitalization, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) within the OHD Lean Operating System. The position combines strategic system design with hands-on execution to improve process capability, reliability, and cost effectiveness across all sites. The Director leads manufacturing engineering, automation and digitalization, maintenance and reliability, facilities and capital planning, and technical capability development. The role also serves as the corporate champion for automation, TPM, and digital manufacturing innovation, partnering with Operations, Product Engineering, Lean, Quality, and EHS and Sustainability leadership. Success will be measured by improved equipment performance, reduced downtime, capital efficiency, and advancement of digital manufacturing maturity across all plants. Travel of up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing sites is expected.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, electrical, or manufacturing engineering.
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, maintenance, or operations leadership.
- Demonstrated success implementing automation and TPM in multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams through large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, reliability engineering, and digital factory technologies, including MES, IoT, and robotics.
- Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing sites.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience in building products, industrial equipment, or discrete manufacturing preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise Manufacturing Engineering strategy to improve process capability, throughput, and cost efficiency.
- Define and deploy standard manufacturing methods, best practices, and process documentation across all plants.
- Partner with Operations and Product Engineering to ensure new products are manufacturable and scalable.
- Oversee major capital investments, layout optimization, and capacity planning initiatives.
- Develop and implement the corporate automation roadmap to improve productivity, consistency, and labor efficiency.
- Lead digital transformation through smart manufacturing systems, MES, and IoT technologies.
- Integrate equipment monitoring, predictive analytics, and real-time performance dashboards.
- Evaluate and deploy robotics, vision systems, and advanced automation to improve safety and reduce waste.
- Own the enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy, including TPM deployment and asset lifecycle management.
- Establish preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
- Standardize maintenance planning, CMMS utilization, and spare parts management across plants.
- Drive year-over-year improvements in MTBF and MTTR.
- Oversee facilities management, including infrastructure maintenance, utilities, and energy optimization.
- Ensure facility projects meet regulatory, environmental, and safety standards.
- Lead annual capital planning and long-term asset renewal strategy.
- Drive energy efficiency and sustainability improvements with EHS and Sustainability leadership.
- Build an enterprise technical capability roadmap for engineers, technicians, and maintenance professionals.
- Lead advanced problem-solving using Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance techniques.
- Integrate engineering and maintenance metrics into site performance dashboards and executive reviews.
- Partner with Lean and Quality to ensure process discipline and adherence to standard work.
- Drive technology and reliability improvements across all sites and foster technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Balance strategic capital planning with hands-on operational problem solving, using data, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
