Worcester Massachusetts Onsite $140000-$160000 Full-Time

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineering Manager to lead engineering activities supporting custom bearing products and their production processes. This leader will manage and develop the engineering team while remaining technically involved in bearing design stamped and machined components assembly tooling heat treatment quality customer requirements and new-product launches.

The strongest candidate combines deep metal-component manufacturing knowledge with practical leadership. This person must be credible with customers and Sales engineers and designers toolmakers and operators Quality and Manufacturing and senior management.

Why Join Us

• Join a stable American manufacturer with roots dating to 1945.
• Lead visible engineering work in a family-owned approximately 110-person company without a large-corporate feel.
• Own the full connection from customer application and bearing design through tooling launch production quality and continuous improvement.
• Develop engineers designers and technical employees while shaping succession and future manufacturing capability.
• Influence new products intellectual property automation cost reduction tooling performance and customer satisfaction.
• Competitive salary of $140000-$160000.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead mentor and develop the Manufacturing Engineering team.
• Set priorities and assign resources across customer production quality tooling and development needs.
• Conduct performance evaluations and support employee growth succession planning and workforce development.
• Promote accountability teamwork technical rigor innovation and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical direction while remaining engaged in difficult engineering and manufacturing problems.

Applications & Product Engineering

• Guide Sales support through design layouts sales drawings bearing and assembly databases technical presentations and customer issue resolution.
• Oversee bearing assemblies components internal drawings vendor drawings calculations estimates and design reviews.
• Review customer requirements and build-to-print designs for manufacturability.
• Apply DFMA principles and evaluate materials specifications standards and engineering practices.
• Develop cost models and business cases for new opportunities.
• Support new-product development and intellectual-property growth.

Manufacturing Tooling & Quality

• Develop and improve manufacturing processes and tooling methods for bearing components and assemblies.
• Oversee manufacturing plans design controls work instructions engineering changes and production support.
• Guide progressive and compound die design for jackets ball cases races retainers and related components.
• Partner with toolmakers through tool design build troubleshooting modification and implementation.
• Improve tooling life reliability productivity setup time equipment utilization and downtime.
• Resolve escalated issues involving performance cost quality schedule delivery machining stamping assembly heat treatment or tooling.
• Partner with Quality on control plans inspection methods PPAP validation capability studies root cause corrective action ISO compliance scrap defects and complaints.

Continuous Improvement & Project Execution

• Lead Lean and Kaizen initiatives that improve productivity quality cost flow and waste.
• Identify automation and efficiency opportunities across manufacturing processes.
• Lead engineering projects from concept through implementation.
• Define timelines budgets resources milestones documentation and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate customers suppliers Manufacturing Quality Tool Room Sales and Customer Service.
• Deliver projects and product launches on schedule and within budget.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline preferred; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of bearing design and manufacturing or closely related precision mechanical components.
• Working depth in metal stamping progressive/compound dies machining assembly tooling and manufacturing engineering.
• Blueprint engineering-drawing GD&T tolerance and specification proficiency.
• Supervisory leadership or substantial project/team leadership experience.
• Strong analytical problem-solving project-management organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work onsite in both office and production environments and travel occasionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct bearing applications product-design or bearing-manufacturing experience.
• Experience leading engineers designers and technical personnel.
• Case-hardening and heat-treatment knowledge.
• PPAP process validation capability control-plan ISO root-cause and corrective-action experience.
• Lean/Kaizen leadership and measurable cost scrap efficiency or tooling improvement results.
• AutoCAD SolidWorks Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access.

Performance Expectations