Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Manufacturing Engineer Manager at Tree Top Staffing LLC

Tree Top Staffing LLC is seeking a skilled Manufacturing Engineer Manager to lead a manufacturing team and oversee engineering activities within a manufacturing facility. This role ensures products consistently meet high-quality standards, production schedules, and cost objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the manufacturing engineering team, providing guidance, mentoring, and training to ensure team success and professional growth.
• Develop and implement manufacturing processes and procedures to optimize production efficiency, quality, and safety.
• Transform the business using lean methodologies to drive operational excellence.
• Coordinate maintenance activities at the site, addressing preventative maintenance, capital projects, upgrades/updates, and custodial staff.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including production, design engineering, and quality assurance to drive continuous improvement and innovation in manufacturing processes.
• Identify opportunities for automation and integration of new technologies to streamline production processes and increase productivity.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action activities to address manufacturing issues and ensure compliance with quality policy and regulatory standards.
• Develop and manage budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation for manufacturing engineering projects.
• Drive a culture of safety, quality, and excellence throughout the manufacturing engineering team and across the organization.
• Develop and maintain relationships with third-party contracted resources.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the company.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of manufacturing experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of Manufacturing Engineering and Lean Management experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering; a post-graduate degree is a plus.
• Experience working on issues of diverse scope, where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage people, including setting expectations, assessing performance, providing feedback, delegating tasks, having difficult conversations, and engaging and developing employees.
• Experience successfully deploying capital improvements, such as automation from conceptualization to implementation.
• Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information.
• Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions.
• Experience with Injection molded plastics is a plus.
• Experience with electronic components is a plus (i.e., motors, wire harnesses, printed circuit boards).
• Experience with Google Suite is nice to have.
• CAD experience is a plus.
• A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with Team Members and colleagues.

Key skills/competency

• Manufacturing Leadership
• Lean Methodologies
• Process Optimization
• Quality Management
• Automation & Robotics
• Root Cause Analysis
• Budget Management
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Injection Molding
• Project Management