Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Faith Technologies•Opelika, AL

42d

About The Position

The Manufacturing Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that the key engineering duties are being fulfilled for the area they support. They are responsible for answering technical questions, proposing budgets for projects, providing guidance and leadership to their team, constantly building talent and capabilities within the team in support of customer needs, and collaborating with various other departments. This position typically has direct supervision of between ten to fifteen engineering support staff, provides day-to-day work direction, and conducts formal performance evaluations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering
Five or more years of related Industrial Engineering experience
Prior exposure managing a team
Prior exposure completing multi-variable work measurements and developing labor standards
Prior exposure with process improvement initiatives
Prior exposure with network optimization projects within a distribution center environment.

Responsibilities

Leads the Manufacturing Engineering portion of Customer / Project Interviews.
Assigns manufacturing engineering resources to effectively deliver projects within Excellerate.
Leads and directs maintenance and tooling for all Excellerate locations.
Provide performance evaluations and coaching to team members.
Prepares proposals and cost estimates for Engineering, modeling, detailing and CAD- related services.
Provides engineering support for all projects, supporting the Operations Engineering team.
Provides leadership and guidance to Manufacturing Engineering staff, maintenance and tooling staff.
Manage the CAPEX process for Excellerate.
Prepares and studies technical drawings, and electrical specifications to ensure that installations and designs conform to standards and customer requirements.
Confers with internal and external customers to discuss existing or potential construction and product/manufacturing projects.
Supports manufacturing with designing Jigs or fixtures needed for production.
Monitors and controls project activity to meet budgets and schedules.
Accountable for building skills, capabilities and team culture which aligns with FTI's core values.
Work with production personnel to identify and correct all safety issues.
Develop and maintain facility layouts using AutoCAD.
Justify and procure capital equipment and tooling.
Coordinate facility and equipment preventive maintenance programs.
Understand government regulations as they apply to the business and assure compliance.
Assist in developing capacity and contingency plans for Excellerate.
Thoroughly understand assembly and operations and drive efficiency, safety, delivery and quality improvements.
Help drive employee improvement projects and administer business unit and company programs.
Develop or optimize processes to ensure quality, cost, and efficiency requirements are met.
Performs other related duties as required and assigned.