Manager of Plant Engineering

Avancez • Harper Woods, MI

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About The Position

The Engineering Manager leads the engineering team to deliver, support, and maintain effective and efficient production processes, while ensuring alignment with customer engineering requirements and specifications. The role identifies leading indicators for manufacturing processes, calibrates and guides the team on operational conditions, and removes roadblocks to improve and stabilize performance.

The manager oversees launch readiness and process and equipment transfers, develops department and individual goals, manages engineering resources and budgets, and coordinates risk mitigation with internal teams and suppliers. The role also leads manufacturing engineering functions spanning process and layout design, maintenance, systems and controls, continuous improvement, quality, ergonomics, and safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Strong organizational skills in a highly complex environment.
• Technical competence across a wide variety of engineering areas.
• Ability to work as part of a team and lead teams toward common goals.
• Ability to seek assistance from other facilities and headquarters resources.
• Practical experience leading engineering systems and tasks, such as APQP, PFMEA, plant layout, tooling and equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance.
• Proven leadership experience, including mentoring and developing staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong computer skills and expert knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent time-management skills and ability to multitask.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Tact, a sense of urgency, and a focus on customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Participate in launch gates to evaluate process and equipment buyoff and transfer.
• Develop engineering department and individual goals that support annual operations group goals.
• Develop risk mitigation plans and engage key personnel and suppliers to identify critical risks proactively.
• Build a high-performance culture emphasizing innovation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and team member safety.
• Manage the engineering budget, staffing, facility preparation, and relevant assets as appropriate.
• Support cross-functional commodity teams and promote continued improvement and common methods across global engineering teams.
• Lead manufacturing engineering functions, including process and layout design, maintenance, systems and controls, Kaizen activities, quality support, ergonomics, and safety.
• Regularly review maintenance objectives and ensure performance to targets and improvement.
• Ensure gage maintenance and calibrations, along with other requirements, are completed.
• Ensure the Engineering Change process is followed and used to plan and prepare for changes.
• Develop leading indicators for each process to be monitored proactively.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Retirement savings programs with employer contributions
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee assistance resources
• Wellness programs and additional benefits supporting health, financial well-being, professional growth, and quality of life

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager