- Field
- Manufacturing and process engineering
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Work model
- Onsite
- Level
- Manager
- Pay
- $150k to $185k
About the role
You'll manage a sizable team of experienced engineers and technicians and support a full pipeline of development projects across multiple product lines. It's a player-coach role: you'll guide the team, step in on technical problems when needed, and be the go-to manufacturing voice on cross-functional development teams.
What you would own
- Lead, coach and develop manufacturing engineers and technicians.
- Serve as the primary process and manufacturing expert on cross-functional new product teams.
- Drive design transfer of new products into production, both in-house and at suppliers.
- Give design for manufacturability (DFM) input on engineering prints and communicate process limits and capabilities to design teams.
- Guide process capability assessments and prioritize and implement process improvements.
- Design and develop processes, tooling, fixturing and automation.
- Write and review process validation protocols and reports.
- Make sure documentation meets quality system requirements (BOMs, routers, FMEAs).
- Own deliverables tied to CAPA, project management and quality systems.
- Plan and lead manufacturing technical reviews and oversee development builds.
- Take part in lean reviews and Kaizen events, and contribute to intellectual property submissions.
What they are looking for
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering field.
- 10+ years in process or manufacturing engineering.
- 3+ years managing an engineering team.
- New product introduction experience.
- Hands-on experience with CMMs, vision inspection systems and profilometers.
- Data analysis and statistics skills (Minitab preferred).
- Risk assessment experience (FMEA) Nice to Have.
- Medical device manufacturing experience, or another regulated industry such as aerospace.
- Additive manufacturing experience.
- Process validation, DOE and process control.
- Experience with metals and plastics machining.
- Master's degree in engineering.
Everything above is the hiring company’s own words, with the company name taken out. The name, the team, and the interview steps come with the first conversation.