Director of Manufacturing
Barry-Wehmiller · Leavenworth, WA
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $150k–$180k
- Experience asked
- 35+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 12 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level manufacturing role at Barry-Wehmiller (industrial) in Leavenworth, WA. Support new product introduction and design-for-manufacture initiatives.
- They ask for
- 35+ years
- Tools it names
- Robotics, Automation, Capacity planning
- Base pay
- $150k–$180k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Washington: typical posted base $103k–$145k. This one lists $150k–$180k.
Median of the low and high ends of 23 live postings that list pay, out of 39 manufacturing engineer openings in Washington, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Washington plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 38 other live manufacturing postings in Washington.
- Base pay
- About 40% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (35+ vs 3+)
Typical $100k–$135k, from 20 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 62%
- Root cause 49%
- ✓ Automation 38%
- Lean 31%
- ✓ New product launch 31%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Capacity planning, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at Barry-Wehmiller
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Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
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One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from Barry-WehmillerAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Key Responsibilities
- ◆Lead manufacturing operations across the company’s production facilities.
- ◆Set standards for safety, quality, on-time delivery, productivity, and cost.
- ◆Improve the transfer of products and projects from engineering into manufacturing.
- ◆Increase capacity while maintaining quality, delivery, and customer performance.
- ◆Improve on-time delivery, lead times, throughput, and gross margin.
- ◆Strengthen production planning, scheduling, capacity planning, and work-in-progress control.
- ◆Manage critical components, suppliers, and long-lead materials with procurement and supply chain teams.
- ◆Establish scalable processes for complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order automation products and systems.
- ◆Support new product introduction and design-for-manufacture initiatives.
- ◆Improve collaboration across sales, engineering, project management, procurement, and manufacturing.
- ◆Lead recovery plans for delayed or strategically important projects.
- ◆Establish clear manufacturing and performance-management KPIs.
- ◆Develop plant managers, production managers, and operational teams.
- ◆Support facility expansion, automation investment, capital planning, and potential upcoming new-site development.
- ◆Partner with the executive team on manufacturing strategy, capacity, organizational design, and long-term growth.
Requirements
- ✓12+ years’ experience in manufacturing, operations, or plant leadership within an industrial manufacturing environment.
- ✓At least 7 years in manufacturing leadership, with direct responsibility for manufacturing performance.
- ✓Experience within industrial automation, robotics, machinery, electrical equipment, motion control, or engineered capital equipment manufacturing.
- ✓Direct leadership of manufacturing operations, rather than engineering or project delivery alone.
- ✓Experience with complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order, configure-to-order, or project-based production.
- ✓A proven record of improving delivery, quality, productivity, capacity, cost, and gross margin.
- ✓Experience leading cross-functional teams across production, quality, planning, and supply chain.
- ✓Strong understanding of the transition from engineering and product design into manufacturing.
- ✓Experience leading managers and developing scalable operational structures.
- ✓Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, production planning, scheduling, and manufacturing-performance systems.
- ✓Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across engineering, sales, project management, supply chain, service, and executive leadership.
- ✓Willingness to travel to US manufacturing sites, suppliers, and customers as required.
- ✓Compensation: $150,000-180,000 base salary
- ✓Benefits: Alliance offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K with employer match, PTO, paid holidays and a bonus program.
- ✓At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical
requirements
of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
- ✓Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.
- ✓Company: Alliance
- ✓Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. It’s that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and
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- •About Us: Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC is a privately held company with over 35 years of history dedicated to providing corrugated box manufacturing machines and services to the changing industry. As the paperboard packaging industry's premier global supplier of productivity-enhancing process machinery and systems, we supply innovative designs, intelligent automation, and optimized workflow, coupled with highly responsive parts and service support. Our United States and Europe based engineering, manufacturing, sales and service operations provide a global support system covering the full product portfolio of Alliance, Serco, TEI, ASC, Pallmac, J&L and Tanabe machines. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.
- •Job Description: THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE LOCATED IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.
- •Job Overview: Alliance Machine Systems Int is seeking a Director of Manufacturing to lead manufacturing performance and operational scale across its North American production sites. This is a considerable leadership role for an experienced manufacturing leader who understands the complexity of producing industrial automation equipment and engineered systems. The Director of Manufacturing will be responsible for improving the connection between engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and customer delivery. The successful candidate will lead a manufacturing environment where products may include complex electrical, mechanical, robotic and controls. The role will involve managing high-mix production, engineered-to-order or configure-to-order manufacturing, and the delivery of technically sophisticated equipment to major industrial customers.