Snr Manufacturing Engineer
About The Position
The Snr Manufacturing Engineer drives advanced manufacturing initiatives at the ceramics facility to optimize production processes and support long-term operational excellence. The role applies advanced engineering principles, data-driven decision-making, and cross-functional leadership to improve safety, quality, cost, and throughput. It leads complex engineering projects, process industrialization, and capital planning, while partnering strategically with Operations, Quality, and Maintenance teams. The position also supports new and existing product lines, program launches, continuous improvement, automation, and digital transformation. It serves as a technical liaison across internal teams and external suppliers, ensures regulatory, customer, and corporate compliance, delivers technical training, mentors manufacturing engineers, supports departmental planning and engineering roadmaps, and maintains engineering documentation. Up to 10% domestic and international travel is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.
- Five years of experience as a Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Systems, Controls, or Automation Engineer.
- Required experience must be in a high-volume manufacturing environment with complex automated production.
- Required experience must include developing manufacturing processes for ceramics or sheet metal fabrication.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex manufacturing engineering projects for new and existing product lines, including process flow, tooling concepts, fixtures, PFMAs, and process documentation.
- Drive process improvements to increase productivity, reduce scrap, improve safety and process capability, and prevent or reduce customer complaints by reducing RPNs.
- Champion capital equipment projects from justification and ROI development through specification, vendor selection, installation, commissioning, and hand-off, within budget and timeline requirements.
- Troubleshoot advanced automated equipment, including robotics, controls, and process systems.
- Coordinate and execute new program launches, EWRs, and ECNs with the Engineering Manager.
- Lead cross-functional teams in Tenneco P3 Operating System implementation, continuous improvement initiatives, lean events, SMED, 5S, cost-reduction programs, and major operational problem-solving activities.
- Evaluate, select, and implement technologies that support automation, digital transformation, and long-term manufacturing competitiveness.
- Act as technical liaison with Quality, Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, EHS, the Technical Center, and external suppliers to execute engineering initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, customer, and corporate requirements.
- Develop and deliver technical training.
- Support the Engineering Manager with departmental planning, mentoring manufacturing engineers, and strategic execution of engineering roadmaps.
- Maintain documentation related to equipment, processes, vendors, tooling, and engineering changes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
