Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Faith Technologies • Auburn, AL

7d

About The Position

You’ve discovered something special. A company that cares. Cares about leading the way in construction, engineering, manufacturing and renewable energy. Cares about redefining how energy is designed, applied and consumed. Cares about thoughtfully growing to meet market demands. And ─ as “one of the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America” ─ is focused on the mind/body/soul of team members through our Culture of Care . The Manufacturing Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that the key engineering duties are being fulfilled for the area they support. They are responsible for answering technical questions, proposing budgets for projects, providing guidance and leadership to their team, constantly building talent and capabilities within the team in support of customer needs, and collaborating with various other departments. This position typically has direct supervision of between ten to fifteen engineering support staff, provides day-to-day work direction, and conducts formal performance evaluations. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Education: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering Experience: Five or more years of related Industrial Engineering experience and prior exposure managing a team, completing multi-variable work measurements and developing labor standards, process improvement initiatives, and network optimization projects within a distribution center environment. Travel: up to 30% based on company need Work Schedule: This position works between the hours of 7 AM and 5 PM, Monday- Friday. However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering
• Five or more years of related Industrial Engineering experience and prior exposure managing a team, completing multi-variable work measurements and developing labor standards, process improvement initiatives, and network optimization projects within a distribution center environment.
• Travel: up to 30% based on company need
• This position works between the hours of 7 AM and 5 PM, Monday- Friday. However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Participates in Customer / Project Interviews: Leads the Manufacturing Engineering portion.
• Assigns manufacturing engineering resources to effectively deliver projects within Excellerate.
• Leads and directs maintenance and tooling for all Excellerate locations.
• Provide performance evaluations and coaching to team members.
• Prepares proposals and cost estimates for Engineering, modeling, detailing and CAD- related services.
• Engineering support of all projects, supporting the Operations Engineering team.
• Provides leadership and guidance to Manufacturing Engineering staff, maintenance and tooling staff.
• Manage the CAPEX process for Excellerate.
• Prepares and studies technical drawings, and electrical specifications to ensure that installations and designs conform to standards and customer requirements.
• Confers with internal and external customers to discuss existing or potential construction and product/manufacturing projects.
• Supports manufacturing with designing Jigs or fixtures needed for production.
• Monitors and controls project activity to meet budgets and schedules.
• Accountable for building skills, capabilities and team culture which aligns with FTI's core values.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.
• Work with production personnel to identify and correct all safety issues.
• Develop and maintain facility layouts using AutoCAD.
• Justify and procure capital equipment and tooling.
• Coordinate facility and equipment preventive maintenance programs.
• Understand government regulations as they apply to the business and assure compliance.
• Assist in developing capacity and contingency plans for Excellerate.
• Thoroughly understand assembly and operations and drive efficiency, safety, delivery and quality improvements
• Help drive employee improvement projects and administer business unit and company programs.
• Develop or optimize processes to ensure quality, cost, and efficiency requirements are met.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager