Manufacturing Engineer III

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:   

• Own the design, implementation, validation, and long‑term sustainment of manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost‑effective production throughout the product lifecycle. 

• Lead the design and optimization of production cells, tooling, fixtures, and test systems using advanced lean principles, error‑proofing, and flow optimization. 

• Serve as a technical owner for complex sustaining issues, including MRBs, nonconformances, supplier escapes, production interruptions, and field feedback; lead root cause analysis and corrective actions. 

• Lead cross‑functional teams to drive manufacturing and supplier issue resolution, using data, cost, and long‑term process health to guide decisions. 

• Lead high‑impact capital projects and strategic improvement initiatives from proposal through Release‑to‑Production, prioritizing based on ROI, capacity, quality, and sustainability. 

• Complete Role Standard Work and deliver all other duties as assigned. 

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• Proven ability to take ownership of manufacturing outcomes, not just engineering tasks, with accountability for process stability and performance. 

• Advanced problem‑solving skills with demonstrated experience leading complex root cause and corrective action efforts in production environments. 

• Strong working knowledge of lean manufacturing tools (Standard Work, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, error‑proofing) and their practical application on the production floor. 

• Advanced experience designing and improving production fixtures, tooling, and manufacturing layouts (NX or SolidWorks preferred). 

• Ability to lead by influence across cross‑functional teams, communicate effectively at all organizational levels, and bring structure to ambiguity. 

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial engineering or a related field with approximately 7–10+ years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience.  

• Demonstrated experience leading complex manufacturing projects, capital initiatives, or plant‑level continuous improvement programs. 

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements: 

• The employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear 

• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk 

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds  

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus  

• Employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock  

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate