Manager, Manufacturing Engineering - Furniture

• ◆Leads, coaches, and develops Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Engineering Technicians, and other assigned technical resources.
• ◆Establishes department engineering priorities and allocates resources across production support, quality improvement, continuous improvement, capacity and capability expansion, capital projects, and product and process stabilization.
• ◆Partners with Production leadership to identify priorities and improve department-level safety, quality, delivery, cost, and capacity performance from an engineering perspective.
• ◆Owns the technical governance of manufacturing processes within assigned department(s), ensuring processes are capable, standardized, controlled, and supported by accurate manufacturing documentation, work instructions, tooling, fixtures, and process controls.
• ◆Leads Manufacturing Engineering response to production and process issues, ensuring recurring problems progress from containment through root cause analysis, corrective action, and sustained resolution.
• ◆Leads or assigns resources to drive improvements in process capability, flow, quality, productivity, ergonomics, equipment utilization, labor efficiency, and waste reduction using Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, value stream mapping, standard work, and other structured improvement methods.
• ◆Partners with Production leadership to develop, maintain, and utilize department capacity and capability models that support operating plans and capital roadmaps for equipment, tooling, automation, and infrastructure needs.
• ◆Leads or assigns resources to execute capital and manufacturing improvement projects, ensuring effective scope, technical requirements, schedule, budget, implementation, production readiness, and results.
• ◆Partners with Maintenance, Facilities, Automation, and other technical functions to improve equipment and process performance and ensure reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle

are addressed during equipment implementation.

• ✓Partners with Manufacturing Engineering Development during NPI/NPD and assumes department-level engineering ownership for stabilization and sustained process performance following transfer into production.
• ✓Owns the Manufacturing Engineering operating budget for the assigned area and supports department-level capital planning and forecasting.
• ✓Communicates department priorities, performance, risks, project status, budgets, and resource

to Manufacturing leadership.

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, mechanical, industrial, or a related engineering discipline; equivalent education and relevant experience may be considered.
• ✓10+ years of manufacturing engineering or related manufacturing experience.
• ✓5+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience.
• ✓Demonstrated experience leading production support, process improvement, capacity or capability development, and capital projects.

• ✓Experience in complex, vertically integrated, or regulated manufacturing environments.
• ✓Working knowledge of CNC machining/programming, tooling, automation, assembly systems, or related manufacturing technologies.
• ✓Experience leading or working closely with specialized technical resources such as CNC programmers.
• ✓Experience managing engineering operating budgets and supporting capital planning.
• ✓Lean, Six Sigma, project management, or related professional certification.

Physical

Ability to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise maneuver up to 35 pounds with or without assistance on a routine basis. Must have manual hand dexterity to grasp, operate tools and equipment repetitively. Able to walk, stand, sit, bend, reach, and occasionally kneel, climb steps, and twist throughout an entire shift.