Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
Key Responsibilities
• Champion a safety-first engineering culture. Apply risk reduction at the design stage and ensure layouts, equipment, tooling, guarding, utilities, access, material handling, installation, and commissioning activities support safe operation and maintenance.
• Develop and maintain detailed 2D/3D CAD facility layouts incorporating manufacturing equipment, work cells, utilities, material handling, operator access, maintenance clearances, safety zones, and future expansion requirements.
• Design end-to-end work-cell flow around the established manufacturing process, optimizing the movement of people, raw material, work-in-process, finished product, tooling, and information through the cell.
• Identify and develop opportunities to reduce manual handling, excess travel, congestion, and non-value-added movement, while incorporating automation or mechanized handling where technically and economically appropriate.
• Ensure work-cell designs consider ergonomics, safe access, maintainability, quality inspection points, material presentation, equipment interfaces, automation integration, and practical production support requirements.
• Translate established manufacturing requirements into equipment, tooling, utility, infrastructure, controls, and installation specifications.
• Develop technical scopes of work, equipment specifications, bid packages, and RFQs; participate in supplier evaluation and technical selection.
• Coordinate equipment manufacturers, integrators, electrical contractors, mechanical contractors, installation contractors, and internal stakeholders, with clear expectations for safety, technical compliance, schedule, and quality.
• Manage assigned capital projects through planning, procurement, installation, commissioning, startup, and handover, with disciplined control of scope, schedule, budget, risk, change, and safety.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership during equipment installation, troubleshooting, commissioning, and production ramp-up.
• Identify site, equipment, automation, and contractor-interface risks early and drive practical corrective actions to protect safety, schedule, and startup readiness.
• Support the consistent replication and scaling of established manufacturing concepts across multiple North American facilities.
• Maintain appropriate project documentation, drawings, equipment records, technical specifications, risk assessments, punch lists, and handover documentation.
• Ensure engineering and installation activities comply with applicable safety requirements, codes, company standards, and site requirements.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant manufacturing, equipment, facilities, automation, or capital project engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience personally developing manufacturing facility and work-cell layouts using CAD software such as AutoCAD or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to design practical end-to-end work-cell flow with consideration for material movement, operator movement, ergonomics, equipment interfaces, maintainability, and automation opportunities.
• Proven experience specifying, procuring, installing, and commissioning manufacturing equipment and tooling.
• Demonstrated coordination of electrical, mechanical, equipment installation, automation/integration, and/or construction contractors.
• Experience managing capital projects with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, technical deliverables, safety, risk, and execution.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing equipment, tooling, fabrication processes, utilities, material handling, and equipment-to-facility interfaces.
• Strong understanding of machine and workplace safety principles and the ability to incorporate risk reduction into engineering design and project execution.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in active construction and manufacturing environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 30-50% throughout North America, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Travel may temporarily exceed 50% during critical installation, commissioning, and startup phases.
• Ability to support occasional evening or weekend work when required for critical installations, shutdowns, commissioning, or startup activities.
Preferred Qualifications / Nice to Have
• Previous direct involvement in one or more greenfield manufacturing facility startups or major facility expansions.
• Experience replicating or scaling an established manufacturing process or facility concept across multiple sites.
• Experience with busbar, electrical distribution products, copper or aluminum fabrication, metal forming, machining, punching, bending, cutting, or related manufacturing technologies.
• Experience applying automation, robotics, conveyors, automated material handling, or other mechanized solutions to improve safety, flow, quality, or productivity.
• Experience conducting or supporting equipment safety reviews, risk assessments, machine guarding reviews, or design-for-safety activities.
• Experience managing significant capital equipment or facility investment programs.
• Advanced 2D and/or 3D CAD capability and experience coordinating equipment layouts with building and utility requirements.
• PMP or comparable project management certification.
• Working familiarity with relevant OSHA, NFPA, electrical, machine safety, and facility requirements.
• Experience working with controls, equipment integrators, and domestic or international equipment suppliers.
Core Competencies
• Safety Leadership: Treats safety as a primary engineering requirement and proactively eliminates or reduces hazards through design, planning, and execution.
• Work-Cell & Flow Design: Takes an end-to-end view of work cells and optimizes material, operator, tooling, and information movement while identifying appropriate automation opportunities.
• Technical Judgment: Makes sound equipment, tooling, layout, automation, and installation decisions based on practical manufacturing requirements.
• Project Execution: Converts plans into safe, completed, commissioned assets while controlling scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
• Vendor & Contractor Leadership: Establishes clear technical and safety expectations and constructively challenges suppliers and contractors when requirements are not met.
• Ownership: Operates independently, identifies problems early, and drives them to closure.
• Communication: Works effectively with trades, machine builders, engineers, operations teams, EHS, and senior leadership.
• Standardization: Replicates proven manufacturing concepts consistently while improving layout, movement, safety, and automation without unnecessary process reinvention.
Second-Round Technical Presentation
Candidates advancing to the second interview round will deliver a 20-30 minute technical presentation, followed by approximately 15-20 minutes of Q&A. The presentation should describe a previous greenfield manufacturing facility startup or significant facility expansion in which the candidate had a direct engineering role. Confidential or proprietary information may be anonymized. The presentation must clearly distinguish the candidate's personal responsibilities and decisions from those of the broader project team.
• Project context and scope: facility purpose, manufacturing environment, project scale, major milestones, and the candidate's specific role.
• Safety-by-design: major hazards identified, risk-reduction decisions, machine or workplace safety considerations, contractor safety interfaces, and how safety influenced the final design.
• Facility layout and CAD: how the layout was developed, CAD tools personally used, key constraints, equipment placement, utilities, access, maintenance, safety zones, and expansion considerations.
• End-to-end work-cell flow: how material, people, tooling, work-in-process, inspection, and finished goods moved through the cell; what was done to reduce handling, travel, congestion, and ergonomic risk.
• Automation strategy: where automation or mechanized handling was considered or implemented, the rationale for those decisions, interfaces created, and measurable benefits or lessons learned.
• Equipment and tooling: major equipment/tooling requirements, technical specifications, supplier selection approach, RFQs, and key engineering trade-offs.
• Contractor and vendor coordination: management of electrical, mechanical, installation, construction, equipment supplier, and integrator interfaces.
• Project management: approach to schedule, capital budget, scope control, risk management, change management, and stakeholder communication.
• Installation and commissioning: startup plan, technical and safety issues encountered, troubleshooting, punch-list closure, acceptance, and handover to operations.
• Results and lessons learned: performance against safety, schedule, budget, startup, quality,
Job Compensation$134-168K annually
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