Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, production launch, process development, industrialization, or manufacturing operations support.
- Experience in large-scale manufacturing environments such as automotive, battery, energy, heavy equipment, aerospace, industrial equipment, or high-volume discrete manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production systems, tooling, fixtures, workstations, process documentation, and shop-floor execution.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, equipment, controls, facilities, and EHS.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting greenfield manufacturing facility development, large-scale plant launch, or major capacity expansion programs.
- Hands-on experience with production line launch, equipment installation, commissioning, run-at-rate, ramp-up stabilization, and operational handover.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes such as machining, fabrication, welding, sheet metal, assembly, testing, surface treatment, painting/coating, and finishing.
- Good understanding of engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance stack-up, BOM structure, material specifications, and manufacturing feasibility assessment.
- Experience with PFMEA, control plans, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, CAPA, 8D, process validation, production trials, process audits, and readiness reviews.
- Strong knowledge of OEE, cycle time, takt time, line balancing, bottleneck analysis, yield improvement, scrap reduction, cost reduction, and throughput improvement.
- Experience with PFEP, material flow, line-side delivery, packaging, sequencing, warehouse interfaces, and internal logistics.
- Familiarity with MES, SCADA, Andon, OEE dashboards, traceability, ERP, PLM, SAP, Teamcenter, and manufacturing documentation control.
- Familiarity with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, 5 Why, Fishbone, Pareto, 5S, standardized work, visual management, and structured problem-solving.
Key Skills & Competencies:
- Strong manufacturing process development and production launch capability.
- Hands-on shop-floor mindset with the ability to translate engineering requirements into practical production solutions.
- Ability to manage complex, cross-functional manufacturing issues from planning through execution.
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders from shop floor to executive leadership.
- Strong ownership mindset with focus on safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and scalability.
- Systems-thinking mindset with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with multiple priorities, evolving requirements, and aggressive launch timelines.