Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Metal Plus, LLC is a full-service fabricator serving customers throughout West Michigan and beyond. The company values quality, on-time delivery, employee growth, and continuous improvement.

Job Overview

Lead manufacturing engineering efforts that strengthen production processes, equipment performance, and product quality. You’ll work across teams to plan projects, solve technical challenges, and advance practical improvements throughout the manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing engineering projects, including project scheduling and project management, from planning through implementation.
• Guide process improvement, lean manufacturing, and quality improvement programs; use root cause analysis and engineering data analysis to address issues and support continuous improvement.
• Partner with production, quality, and other teams on assembly, fabrication, tooling, welding, and plastics injection molding processes.
• Support industrial automation, robotics, robot programming, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), vision inspection systems, and industrial equipment troubleshooting.
• Lead and develop engineering team members while coordinating cross-functional collaboration and clear project communication.

Qualifications

• Experience practicing in an industrial or manufacturing engineering role, with manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or industrial engineering knowledge; factory, manufacturing facility, or assembly line experience is valuable.
• Demonstrated team leadership and project management experience in manufacturing; familiarity with lean management and Six Sigma manufacturing is preferred.
• Mechanical knowledge and engineering troubleshooting skills, including assembly, fabrication, tooling, welding, and industrial automation.
• Working knowledge of computer-aided design (CAD) software such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or Creo; ability to interpret schematics and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience with programmable logic controllers, robot programming, plastics injection molding, engineering data analysis, root cause analysis, process improvement, or Six Sigma is an asset.

Pay: $70,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person