Engineering Manager - Progress Park Operations

HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.

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What We Need:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering Center of Excellence within Progress Park that manages cross-functional engineering teams consisting of three core areas of focus dedicated to improving business agility and profitability. Defining and maintaining standards, governance and repeatability. The ideal candidate brings a strong manufacturing engineering background, proven people leadership, and experience partnering across operations, engineering, and technical support teams to drive measurable improvements.

What You Will Do:

• Provide strategic technical decisions and solutions by creating plans, prioritizing, delegating and managing all engineers’ activities and deliverables for the facility
• Deliver broad technical leadership to the facility by communicating technical information to non-technical members
• Lead process to establish Project Management within Progress Park facility
• Maintains high level of expertise in the field
• Manage, support, and evaluate engineers’ performance to provide coaching and development opportunities
• Oversee project logistics and allocating technical resources to fit business demands
• Identify opportunities for improvements to optimize performance in safety, quality, delivery and cost and utilize metrics to manage performance
• Support plant technical escalations
• Conduct process audits and gemba walks to identify gaps and improvement opportunities
• Commit to fulfilling successful onboarding experience for all engineering resources

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
• Proven success leading continuous improvement and operational performance initiatives
• Experience improving labor efficiency, process flow, throughput, and plant KPIs
• Strong leadership skills with experience developing engineering or technical teams
• Experience partnering with IT, automation, or systems teams on plant process improvements preferred
• Exposure to MES, IoT, dashboards, or plant visibility systems preferred
• Strong systems mindset with the ability to connect engineering decisions to plant outcomes