Senior Industrialization & Readiness Engineer

As a Senior Industrialization & Readiness Engineer, you will l ead industrialization and industrial readiness activities for new products, first-of-kind builds, production transfers, capacity expansions, and significant manufacturing changes across the MDC production network.

The role is responsible for coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, conducting industrialization studies, assessing industrial readiness, and developing practical manufacturing strategies that enable safe, efficient, and scalable production execution.

Working across Engineering, Operations, Deployment, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Supply Chain Performance functions, the position drives alignment, assessments, and recommendations that support successful production introduction, capability development, and manufacturing optimization across manufacturing facilities.
Role Context

• Operates within an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and low-to-medium volume manufacturing environment characterized by complex products, evolving manufacturing requirements, and frequent introduction of new configurations and capabilities.
• Supports industrialization and industrial readiness activities across manufacturing facilities.
• Provides centralized coordination and assessment for new products, first-of-kind builds, production transfers, capacity expansions, manufacturing capability development, and significant manufacturing changes.
• Works across Engineering, Operations, Deployment, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Supply Chain Performance functions to align readiness activities, evaluate manufacturing approaches, and support effective production introduction.
• Serves as a bridge between strategic industrial readiness planning and practical manufacturing execution by ensuring manufacturing considerations are incorporated early and consistently throughout deployment and industrialization activities.

Key Responsibilities

• New Product & First-of-Kind Industrialization (Core)
• Lead industrialization activities for new products, first-of-kind builds, major product changes, and new manufacturing capabilities.
• Industrial Readiness Coordination (Core)
• Lead industrial readiness assessments and readiness coordination activities across manufacturing facilities.
• Industrialization Studies & Manufacturing Optimization (Core)
• Lead centralized industrialization studies to improve manufacturing effectiveness, scalability, and execution consistency across the manufacturing network.
• Manufacturing Feasibility & Buildability Assessment
• Evaluate products, assemblies, manufacturing concepts, and production approaches to ensure practical, efficient, and scalable execution.
• Cross-Site Industrialization Support
• Support consistency of industrialization practices across manufacturing sites.
• Industrialization Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Capture
• Capture lessons learned and provide recommendations to improve future industrialization activities.

Operating Model

Owns assessments, coordination, findings, recommendations, industrialization leadership, and industrial readiness evaluations.

Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering provide operational inputs, detailed analysis support, and execution of approved recommendations and changes.
Key Outputs

• Industrialization strategies and production introduction plans
• Industrial readiness assessments and recommendations
• First-of-kind manufacturing assessments and risk mitigation plans
• Manufacturing feasibility and buildability evaluations
• Industrialization studies and manufacturing optimization assessments
• Manufacturing strategy assessments and recommendations
• Equipment, workflow, material flow, and capacity analysis recommendations
• Manufacturing capability improvement opportunities
• Cross-functional industrialization and readiness action plans
• Cross-site best practices and knowledge transfer recommendations
• Stakeholder-aligned industrialization roadmaps and implementation recommendations
• Lessons learned and continuous improvement recommendations

Profile

• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing, industrialization, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, operations engineering, or related technical roles.
• Experience supporting new product introduction, first-of-kind builds, manufacturing capability development, production transfers, or significant manufacturing changes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across engineering, operations, and manufacturing organizations.

Key Skills

• Industrialization planning and industrial readiness assessment
• Manufacturing feasibility and buildability analysis
• Manufacturing process evaluation and optimization
• Equipment, workflow, and capacity assessment
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder alignment
• Structured problem solving and analytical thinking

What Success Looks Like

• New products, first-of-kind builds, and significant manufacturing changes are successfully industrialized through proactive planning, comprehensive readiness assessments, effective stakeholder alignment, and practical manufacturing strategies.
• Industrial readiness assessments provide actionable recommendations that improve decision quality and support successful production introductions.
• Industrialization studies identify meaningful opportunities to improve manufacturing efficiency, capability, scalability, workflow effectiveness, and production performance.
• Manufacturing strategy recommendations are adopted because they are practical, data-driven, and aligned with operational requirements.
• Stakeholders are aligned on manufacturing approaches, readiness requirements, and execution priorities.
• Manufacturing risks, capability gaps, and execution challenges are identified early and addressed before they become production constraints.

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Client-provided location(s): Liberty Township, OH, DeSoto, TX, Peoria, AZ

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-137528

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-10-15T19:57:30