Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Bellefontaine, OH

Competitive base salary and benefits plus bonus potential!

Elevate your career into engineering role that offers a high-level operational partnership, and the rare flexibility of a customizable morning schedule—all within a culture that promotes from within.

• Elite Operational Partnership: Lead your department alongside a tenured Engineering Manager and a high-performing Production Manager who prioritize a collaborative, "win-together" team environment.
• True Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy a rare level of flexibility in manufacturing with a customizable start time (6:00–8:00 AM), an average 45-hour work week, and minimal weekend requirements.
• Culture of Continuous Improvement: Join a stable organization that is genuinely passionate about process innovation, providing you the autonomy to identify and execute meaningful engineering changes.
• Stability & Reward: Benefit from the security of a long-standing leadership team and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you and your family for the long term.

Don't settle for just any engineering opportunity—this is the one that will propel your career forward!

Manufacturer is seeking a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer to work in their engineering team. The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for overseeing an assigned area related to best practices, KPI improvements, plan execution and new technology industrialization. Daily you will report to the and Engineering Leader. Responsibilities will include:

• Support the company's best manufacturing initiatives as a team and by partnering with other sites
• Lead, monitor and analyze production numbers and KPIs
• Directly identify continuous improvement projects, overseeing group CI and 2-6 individual CI projects at a time, including managing budgets and project timelines
• Complete the assigned area's capability and capacity analysis on a biannual basis
• Lead and participate in daily mechanical troubleshooting of equipment and processes
• Assist the new model engineering group by ensuring that the department is ready for tooling, line modification and start up
• Develop and improve line layouts and make line modifications
• Facilitate sharing practices with sister sites
• Train associates on proper quality, production and engineering procedures
• Conceptualize and design fixtures and gauges in 2D and 3D software
• Lead the partnership between operations and quality to help determine root cause analysis of quality issues and establish countermeasures
• Spend up to 50% of your time on the manufacturing floor, focused on engineering efforts
• Other engineering tasks as assigned

This is a hands-on position that requires qualified candidates to be on the manufacturing floor up to 50% of their day. Candidates should be able to manage their own projects while offering guidance to junior engineers, be flexible with their work requirements, and have good written and verbal communication. Individuals should have excellent floor communication skills and be able to effectively communicate with executives, peers and frontline associates.

Medical benefits are available the first of the month after 30 days of employment. Holidays, vacation, relocation assistance, 401K and annual bonus!

REQUIREMENTS for the Sr. Manufacturing Engineer:

1. Bachelor's degree; preferred majors include mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technologies, industrial technologies or manufacturing technologies

2. At least five years of similar manufacturing engineering experience

3. A general understanding of process controls, ideally PFMEA

4. Experience focused on continuous improvement initiatives, including scrap reduction, efficiency improvement, elimination of downtime, etc.

5. Project management skills, including overseeing timelines and budgets

6. Basic 2D and 3D modeling

7. Mechanical aptitude

8. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel

Skills preferred but NOT required:

1. Automotive manufacturing work experience

2. Capital equipment projects

3. Exposure to Lean and/or Six Sigma methodologies

4. New model launch

5. Strong data analysis skills

6. Tooling

7. Power BI

8. Supervision of others

Why work for this organization:

📌 New capital equipment projects have been completed at the plant

📌 Diverse business mix (Honda, Toyota, Ford and other OEMs)

📌 Supply truck, car, van and EV markets

📌 Competitive benefits package and bonus structure

📌 Opportunity for advancement at the plant or corporate level (you don't have to relocate to promote into corporate positions)

📌 Good work/life balance, with minimal Saturdays (when you do work a Saturday, you will get a comp day!)