Engineering Manager
Howmet Aerospace · Dover, NJ
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at Howmet Aerospace (aerospace & defense) in Dover, NJ. Lead initiatives to achieve product yield improvements, variation reduction, and achieve cost reduction goals related to the manufacture of ceramic cores/parts.
- They ask for
- 2+ years
- Tools it names
- Automation, Machining, Casting, Painting / coating, EHS / safety
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in New Jersey: typical posted base $115k–$155k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 44 manufacturing engineer openings in New Jersey, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 43 other live manufacturing postings in New Jersey.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 10+)
Typical $115k–$155k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 80%
- ✓ Team leadership 80%
- Root cause 77%
- 5S 73%
- Capacity planning 73%
- Time studies 68%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Automation, Machining, Casting, Painting / coating, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Howmet Aerospace in Dover
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Full description from Howmet AerospaceAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job summary
Works closely with the Manufacturing Managers of assigned business center. Strives to ensure that processes are developed and implemented in support of all customer
requirements
and plant performance objectives.
Responsibilities
- ◆Expected to assist in the implementation of Howmet’s EHS value and policy statement and its accompanying principles.
- ◆Comply with all department, facility, Corporate and Regulatory EH&S regulations.
- ◆Wear all required personal protective equipment.
- ◆Report all job-related illness and injuries.
- ◆Report all Safety, Health & Environmental concerns to your supervisor in a timely manner.
- ◆Attend EH&S Training
Responsibilities
- ◆Lead initiatives to achieve product yield improvements, variation reduction, and achieve cost reduction goals related to the manufacture of ceramic cores/parts
- ◆Direct and manage the activities regarding product tool/part designs and standards
- ◆Manage the facility’s engineering budgets
- ◆Manage and direct the New Product Introduction (NPI) initiative ensuring product development in accordance with overall project timelines, budget, and quoted standards
- ◆Develop t
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Howmet Engines is a world-class producer of aero engine and industrial gas turbine components, including airfoils, rings, disks and forgings. We excel in vacuum melted superalloys, machining, performance coatings and hot isostatic pressing for high-performance parts that enable the next generation of quieter, more fuel-efficient aero engines and cleaner power generation. Howmet Dover Casting is a world-class supplier of complex, investment-cast turbine airfoils and other components for the aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine industries. Howmet Dover Alloy is a world-class supplier of vacuum and air-melted nickel- and cobalt-based superalloys to aerospace, gas turbine, medical and other high-technology industrial markets.
Howmet Aerospace is currently looking an Engineering Manager to join our Casting Facility located in Dover, New Jersey .
Anticipated Pay Range: $120K- 222K per year. *Pay rates within this range are determined based on various factors including experience, education, certifications, etc.
Along with your pay, our company provides you with a comprehensive package of benefits that is competitive with other leading companies. Some of our benefits include: Paid vacation each year, based on length of service; 13 paid holidays per year; 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, company may match a percentage of your pre-tax contributions; Employer contribution to your Retirement Savings Plan account each pay period; Medical/Prescription Drug/Dental/Vision benefits offered upon hire; Employee Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Tuition Assistance Program; Free fitness center membership; Shift premium.
Job Roles
- •Accountability and follow-through --interacts within organizational matrix understanding the inherent interdependence of roles and functions; takes ownership of outcomes; acts in the best interest of the team, group, function and enterprise
- •Rigor --continuous focus on repeatable processes at scale; analyzes efforts; recalibrates as needed; considers multiple inputs from multiple stakeholders; exhibits detail orientation
- •Tactical agility --inspires team to proactive improvements while maintaining ability to react to issues as they arise; functions well under pressure of production and time expectations; able to manage the tension of speed and specification demands
- •Practical and adaptive thinking --understands organizational capabilities and introduces solutions within existing frameworks while simultaneously adapting to changes, developments in technology and marketplace demands
- •Versatile leadership --technically capable, yet able to detach to gain perspective; deploys resources strategically and works alongside team when necessary
- •Possibility thinking --proactively challenges the status quo and seeks to solve problems differently than we have in the past; explores the boundaries of technology and current practice; embraces and champions change including automation, smart manufacturing and progress in data gathering and interpretation
- •Relationship-oriented --establishes and maintains connections with team, peers and cross functionally; collaborates and compromises for the good of the enterprise; provides thought partnership; creates and scales best practices across enterprise
- •Prioritization --understands the business and its technical, financial and strategic direction and goals; prioritizes work accordingly and communicates rationale for decisions; advocates for customers within the context of organizational capability and goals; understands the implication of decisions on other facets of the enterprise
- •Communication --listens well and takes multiple perspectives into consideration; articulates priorities and future possibilities clearly and frequently; interacts with operators, managers and customers and customizes approach to each stakeholder group
- •Coach/Mentor/Manager -- formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy; provides direction, review, reassurance, encouragement, challenge, recognition on an individual basis; promotes growth and development in associates; inspires risk; continually assesses and reassesses talent and fit to role based on individual and collective performance
- •Resource and expertise deployment --understands where to invest to ensure resolution; solicits and directs the expertise and involvement of others and enables their success
- •Customer coordination --responds directly to customer inquiries, interfaces with customer
- •Influence without direct authority --provides justification for decisions and direction; presents a compelling case for needed efforts or change to parties with varying interests and priorities; aligns peers and stakeholders to achieve both tangible and anticipated objectives
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