Global Manufacturing Engineering Manager- Golf Pride

Eaton Corporation•Pinehurst, NC

1d•$130,000 - $190,000

About The Position

At Golf Pride, how we build our products is as important as what we build. Manufacturing engineering turns great grip designs into scalable, high-quality production realities, ensuring every grip reflects the innovation, precision, and performance that define the Golf Pride brand. As Golf Pride’s Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will be the senior-most leader of the manufacturing engineering function and a member of the Global Operations Leadership Team, reporting to the Director of Global Operations. You will set the Manufacturing Engineering function’s vision, standards, and capability roadmap across the entire Golf Pride manufacturing network. Plant manufacturing engineering teams look to this role for functional direction — you own what our plants need to be capable of; our plant teams own daily execution and local implementation. This is a role focused on the future. You will systematically expand what Golf Pride’s plants and supplier partners can do — deepening process capabilities, accelerating speed to commercialization, building technical depth across the network, and ensuring our manufacturing base is ready for the product complexity ahead. You own the function end-to-end: design for manufacturability, automation strategy, capital planning, and make/buy decisions that optimize quality, cost, and speed to market.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering required
10+ years in manufacturing engineering, process development, or operations engineering; 5+ years leading engineering teams.
Technical ME Expertise: Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes; rubber, polymer, or similar material processing highly desirable. Proven experience with DFM/DFA, automation strategy (robotics, advanced process controls, Industry 4.0), capital project management, make/buy analysis, production tooling, fixture design, and process validation (PPAP or equivalent).
Tools & Data: Proficiency with CAD/CAM tools, process simulation software, and standard business tools (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint). Familiarity with stage-gate product development processes.
CI & Problem Solving: Knowledge of Six Sigma, Lean, VA/VE, and structured problem-solving (8D, 5-Why, A3, FMEA).
Collaboration & Communication: Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, partner cross-functionally, and translate technical concepts into business language.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or MBA.
Multi-site experience.
Rubber and or polymer material processing experience.
Ability to travel internationally approximately 25% of the time.
Passion for golf and understanding of the golfer’s experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Build Golf Pride’s Manufacturing Capability Roadmap: Define a multi-year capability plan that systematically expands what our plants can do — process capabilities, technical depth, speed to commercialization, and readiness for future product complexity. This is the strategic backbone of the ME function.
Lead Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Serve as the manufacturing engineering voice in product development, ensuring new grip designs are optimized for producibility, quality, yield, and cost from concept through launch. Partner with Innovation to accelerate time from design to scalable production.
Define and Execute Automation & Digital Manufacturing Strategy: Develop and deploy a multi-year automation roadmap integrating robotics, advanced process controls, and smart manufacturing technologies to improve throughput, reduce variability, and build capacity for growth.
Own Capital Strategy & Make/Buy Decisions: Manage the growth and sustaining CapEx plan — project identification, justification, prioritization, and execution. Lead insource vs. outsource decisions across the portfolio, balancing cost, quality, IP protection, capacity, and supply chain risk with analytical frameworks tied to long-term business objectives.
Drive Manufacturing Process Development: Lead development, validation, and deployment of manufacturing processes for new products and platform extensions — tooling, fixtures, mixing, molding, finishing, and assembly — to meet safety, quality, yield, and throughput targets.
Build the Manufacturing Engineering Function: Grow the function globally, partnering with plant engineering teams in Taiwan and Thailand on staffing, capability development, and talent. Leverage Eaton corporate engineering forums and technology councils to accelerate Golf Pride’s technical capabilities.
Partner Across Functions to Drive Business Impact: Collaborate across the business (Commercial, Innovation, Operations, HR, Finance, Legal) to integrate engineering priorities with quality systems, CI initiatives, new product launches, and commercialization timelines. Ensure manufacturing investments are tied to clear business outcomes.