Manufacturing Engineering - Manager

We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Engineering - Manager to join our Manufacturing team in Plainfield, IN.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Build Effective Teams: Create a strong team identity by leveraging diverse skills and perspectives, ensuring everyone is aligned around shared goals and empowered to contribute meaningfully.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Develop productive partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders, working collaboratively to remove barriers, streamline processes, and achieve shared business outcomes.
• Communicate with Clarity: Deliver clear, audience-specific communication across multiple channels, ensuring alignment, transparency, and understanding at every level of the organization.
• Cultivate Innovation: Introduce new ideas, tools, and process improvements that enhance efficiency, strengthen operational performance, and support long-term organizational success.
• Develop Talent: Coach and mentor team members to help them grow their capabilities, advance their career goals, and contribute more effectively to the organization's objectives.
• Drive Results: Maintain a strong focus on execution, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes even in challenging or fast-changing environments.
• Champion Health & Safety: Model proactive safety behaviors, identify risks, and support actions that build an interdependent, injury-free workplace culture.
• Manage Complexity & Align Work: Navigate complex information, balance stakeholder needs, and prioritize work effectively to ensure plans, resources, and actions align with organizational goals.

• Deep Manufacturing Expertise: Leverage 7-10 years of plant manufacturing experience to lead engineering strategy, guide technical decisions, and support complex operations across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacity expansion workstreams.
• Strong Capital Project Leadership: Drive end-to-end ownership of capital projects-defining scope, building business cases, engaging vendors, and ensuring safe, on-time, on-budget execution with reliable startup and performance outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence: Collaborate closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, HSE, and Planning to lead major site transitions, deploy automation, reconfigure lines, relocate equipment, and introduce new processes while balancing stakeholder needs.
• Technical & Safety-Driven Continuous Improvement: Apply advanced manufacturing, automation, and process-optimization skills to improve capacity, throughput, and productivity while ensuring engineering ownership of HSE risk reduction, machine safety, ergonomics, emissions control, and OEE stabilization.

• 7-10 years of plant manufacturing experience , with demonstrated leadership in a high-volume or complex production environment.
• Site Manufacturing Engineering leadership experience , providing daily technical direction across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacity-expansion operations.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end capital projects , including scope development, business case creation, vendor management, execution oversight, and safe, on-time startup.
• Strong cross-functional engineering support capability for major initiatives such as automation deployment, line reconfiguration, equipment moves, and new process introductions.
• Demonstrated success driving capacity, throughput, and productivity improvements through process optimization, equipment upgrades, and standard work implementation.
• Expertise in HSE-focused engineering , including machine safety, ergonomics, dust/emission controls, PIV engineering controls, and closure of risk assessments with engineered solutions.
• Technical leadership in automation and advanced manufacturing , including technology evaluation, OEE improvement, and stabilization of automated systems post-launch.
• Effective cross-functional interface skills , ensuring alignment with enterprise stakeholders on priorities, timelines, risks, and execution plans.
• Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams , including workload prioritization, coaching, capability development, and succession planning.
• Strong execution discipline , maintaining cadence, visibility, and accountability through structured project reviews, risk escalation, and performance reporting.