Manufacturing Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Leadership: ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive alignment across engineering, quality, supply chain, and production without direct authority.
• Commitment to company values and ethics
• Dependability: personally responsible, completes work in a timely manner, and performs tasks accurately
• Motivation: must maintain a positive attitude and strong work energy
• Analytical skills: must be able to gather information and use data to determine cause and effect for complex problem solving
• Communication: excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including presenting project updates to leadership
• Independent: must have the ability to carry out and follow through on tasks with minimal supervision
• Problem Solving: ability to develop and implement new ideas to improve processes
• Must maintain strict confidentiality and professionalism
• Organization: very detail-oriented and always comes prepared
• Time management: ability to organize and manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• This position requires access to export control information. To conform to US Export Control regulations, the applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the US Government.

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification or project management experience is preferred
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional projects such as manufacturing transitions, insourcing/outsourcing initiatives, or continuous improvement programs, with measurable results.
• Experience developing business cases, project schedules, and resource plans for capital or transition projects.
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes, tooling, and CAD tools (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or Pro-E) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management of buy-to-make transition initiatives, including feasibility analysis, business case development, project planning, execution, and go-live.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and budgets for insourcing and transition projects, tracking milestones, risks, and action items.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize continuous improvement opportunities across production processes, tooling, equipment, and workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, quality, supply chain, production, and finance to coordinate transition activities and resolve issues.
• Build and manage business cases for insourcing projects, including capital requirements, headcount, equipment, and facility needs.
• Assess vendor transition readiness across people, process, and equipment, and manage the handoff from outsourced to in-house production.
• Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives to reduce material and labor costs while meeting or exceeding quality and reliability objectives.
• Coordinate capital equipment installation, tooling and fixture development, and facility planning tied to transition timelines.
• Prepare and present project status updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• All other duties as assigned.