Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Coils
our team · Madison, AL
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 15 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at our team (industrial) in Madison, AL. As senior manufacturing engineer on this campus, you will play a crucial role in improving production efficiencies, reducing costs, and enhancing overall manufacturing processes.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- Value stream mapping, OEE, FMEA, Control plans, ISO 9001, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Alabama: typical posted base $134k–$165k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 38 manufacturing engineer openings in Alabama, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 37 other live manufacturing postings in Alabama.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 3+)
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 68%
- Tooling 61%
- Machining 47%
- ✓ Welding 45%
- ✓ FMEA 42%
- Lean 39%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Capacity planning, SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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How you will make an Impact (Job Summary)
As senior manufacturing engineer on this campus, you will play a crucial role in improving production efficiencies, reducing costs, and enhancing overall manufacturing processes. Key to this role will be to learn in a fast past environment.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manufacturing Engineer to provide technical leadership for our OlympusMAX coil manufacturing operations . This role will lead process development, continuous improvement, equipment optimization, and manufacturing strategy while maintaining a strong presence on the production floor. The successful candidate will partner closely with operators, technicians, quality, maintenance, supply chain, and engineering teams to ensure world-class safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
The incumbent will partner across Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Engineering, and Continuous Improvement teams to build and sustain an ISO 9001 compliant Quality Management System (QMS). This role offers the opportunity to influence plant startup activities, develop quality systems, and shape long-term operational excellence.
What you can expect in this role (Job Responsibilities)
While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core
Required Experience & Skills
- ✓5+ years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing, or related technical environments
- ✓Fin-and-tube heat exchanger design fundamentals. Experience with coil or heat exchanger fabrication.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and build collaborative relationships
Ideal Experience & Skills
- ✓Experience supporting new product introduction, manufacturing startup, expansion, or process development activities preferred
- ✓Capacity planning, line layout, production scheduling
- ✓Experience with orbital tube welding processes.
- ✓SAP experience is preferred, but is not required
Education & Certifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline preferred
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Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Coils
Location
Madison, Alabama (AL), US, 35756
Building the people that build the world.
With platforms in HVAC and Detection and Measurement, SPX Technologies builds innovative solutions that enable a safer, more efficient, sustainable world. Through our RiSE talent development framework, we Reach, Identify, Strengthen, and Engage our employees to support them in their continued development. We’re a global company of problem solvers, collaborators, and innovators, and our businesses build solutions that impact the world.
SPX is a diverse team of unique individuals who all make an impact. We are opening a new campus facility that will have two of our businesses (Marley and Ingenia Technologies) evolving and growing together at SPX's very first campus.
Manufacturing Process Leadership
- •Serve as the manufacturing engineering subject matter expert for the OlympusMAX coil production processes.
- •Lead process optimization efforts for:
- •Fin Press
- •Stainless steel welding
- •Coil forming
- •Mechanical assembly
- •Develop and maintain manufacturing standards, work instructions, process documentation, PFMEAs, and control plans.
- •Provide advanced troubleshooting support to production teams and lead resolution of chronic manufacturing issues.
- •Drive improvements in safety, quality, productivity, capacity, and cost.
- •Establish process capability metrics and monitor critical manufacturing parameters.
- •Conduct time studies, value stream assessments, and capacity analyses.
- •Identify and implement productivity improvements through layout optimization, waste elimination, and workflow improvements.
- •Lead scrap reduction, yield improvement, and labor efficiency initiatives.
- •Develop and track key performance metrics for manufacturing performance.
Capital Projects, Equipment & Automation
- •Identify and justify capital investments supporting OlympusMAX growth and operational excellence.
- •Lead equipment specification, procurement, installation, validation, and startup activities.
- •Evaluate opportunities for automation, robotics, machine vision, and Industry 4.0 technologies.
- •Partner with maintenance teams to improve equipment reliability and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Leadership & Collaboration
- •Mentor Manufacturing Engineers, Engineering Technicians, and production personnel.
- •Serve as a technical leader within manufacturing operations.
- •Facilitate cross-functional teams to execute strategic improvement initiatives.
- •Build strong working relationships with operators and manufacturing leadership.
- •Present project updates, business cases, and performance results to plant leadership.
What we are looking for (Required/Ideal Experience, Skills, Education)
We each bring something to the table, and we are looking for someone who has:
Travel & Working Environment
- •Travel will be required at times; Ingenia Headquarter located, QC Canada or other SPX locations such as Charlotte, NC or Overland, KS.
- •Manufacturing plant environment
- •Office and manufacturing plant environment w
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