Manufacturing Engineering Manager
About The Position
This role leads manufacturing engineering work supporting the people, products, and processes involved in building RDL products. It combines team leadership, planning, and technical direction with regular hands-on involvement on the manufacturing floor. The manager helps bring new products into production, resolves current manufacturing challenges, and develops lasting improvements across a broad environment that includes electronics, SMT, fabrication, and integration. The role works closely with Product Engineering, Quality, and Production, applying data, experimentation, Lean principles, and practical engineering judgment to improve production and product quality.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of manufacturing engineering experience, including technical leadership or supervisory responsibility.
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience with electronics manufacturing, SMT, PCB assembly, or metal fabrication.
- Ability to use SolidWorks, ERP systems, manufacturing documentation, and engineering change processes.
- Experience improving productivity, solving complex manufacturing problems, and implementing sustainable process changes.
- Clear communication, organization, and ability to collaborate across engineering, quality, and production teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Lean manufacturing, process validation, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Manufacturing Engineering team, set priorities, and support effective execution of engineering projects and production needs.
- Develop, validate, and optimize manufacturing processes using Lean principles, data analysis, experimentation, and continuous improvement to improve productivity, throughput, and quality.
- Partner with Product Engineering on mechanical and electrical designs to ensure products are safe, manufacturable, cost-effective, and intuitive to build.
- Develop manufacturing methods, tooling, fixtures, documentation, and process validation for new product introduction.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for manufacturing defects, equipment issues, and process failures, and implement corrective actions.
- Oversee engineering changes, including ECRs, bills of materials, manufacturing routings, work instructions, and production documentation in Expandable ERP.
- Assess equipment and automation opportunities, coordinate preventive maintenance planning, improve reliability, and ensure installations are production ready.
- Work with Quality and Production to improve repeatability and process capability, support applicable IPC standards and customer requirements, and build safe practices into processes and equipment.
- Oversee applicable Safety Data Sheets.
- Evaluate processes and equipment, develop experiments, and implement improvements that produce measurable results.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
