Production Engineering Leader — Precision CNC

Step into a senior role where you orchestrate the full manufacturing and process engineering system—designing, stabilizing, and scaling how precision parts are made. If you thrive on turning customer needs into robust processes, elevating team capability, and delivering measurable results, this is your arena.

Your Mandate

Lead

• Grow Manufacturing and Process Engineers and Technicians through coaching, regular 1:1s, and lifecycle mentorship.
• Translate business and customer requirements into clear technical priorities.
• Balance timelines and resources across departments; resolve conflicts with transparency and fairness.

Improve

• Own process design, optimization, automation, and standardization for machining, assembly, and secondary ops.
• Run hands-on CI focused on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
• Apply structured problem-solving methods to complex production and engineering issues.
• Institutionalize standard work, visual management, and data-driven decision making.
• Define and monitor 5–8 KPIs aligned to strategic goals.
• Audit and approve job routers—operation steps, resources, standards, and outside services—before release.

Partner

• Team with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales to hit daily commitments and plan for growth.
• Lead capital planning, equipment selection, install, validation, and commissioning.
• Enable NPI and process introductions via DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, and robust control plans.
• Ensure engineering changes are controlled and consistently executed.

Safeguard

• Serve as the site’s technical escalation point and manufacturing SME.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and QMS requirements.
• Provide support to off-shift and weekend operations when needed.

What You’ve Mastered

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in manufacturing or process engineering within a precision manufacturing environment.
• 4+ years managing or leading engineering teams.
• Strong foundation in precision CNC manufacturing.
• Expert CAD/CAM skills with Autodesk, SolidWorks, and Mastercam.
• PLC programming fluency, including troubleshooting, optimization, and logic interfaces.
• Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement expertise.
• Applied GD&T and engineering drawing literacy.
• ERP proficiency (Epicor or equivalent).
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 or AS9100 quality management systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; extensive equivalent experience will be considered.

Preferred Strengths

• Advanced degree or professional certifications.
• Metallurgy or materials experience.
• Six Sigma or comparable CI certification.

How You Operate

You bring clarity, urgency, and accountability. You’re credible at the strategy table and credible in steel-toe boots. You earn trust, communicate constraints and capabilities clearly, and consistently elevate team performance without cutting corners.