Manufacturing Engineer

Join Us as a Manufacturing Engineer at Valcom, a Potter Global Technologies Company

At Valcom, we've spent nearly 50 years helping schools, hospitals, and businesses communicate when it matters most. From our home in Roanoke, Virginia, we design and manufacture paging, intercom, and emergency communication systems, delivered through a trusted network of integrator and distributor partners.

Valcom is part of Potter Global Technologies, a global leader in life safety solutions with more than 125 years of history protecting lives around the world. That means you get the best of both worlds: the close-knit team and hands-on impact of Valcom, backed by the resources and reach of a global life-safety family.

Together, our vision is for our customers to know us as their innovative, easy-to-do-business-with, best-in-class life-safety product partner. With a passion for creating safer environments worldwide, our mission is to provide our customers with a team of real people who connect them with reliable expertise in life safety applications.

If you're inspired by purpose, energized by collaboration, and thrive in an environment of feedback, ownership, and experimentation, you'll feel at home here.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will play a key role in improving production processes, driving operational efficiency, and supporting the successful manufacturing of high-quality products. You will work closely with production, quality, and engineering teams to optimize workflows, troubleshoot manufacturing issues, implement continuous improvement initiatives, and support new product introductions. This role is responsible for enhancing safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance through process improvements, equipment implementation, and employee training while ensuring compliance with company and regulatory standards.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, evaluate, and improve manufacturing methods so they match product specs and quality standards.
• Analyze workflows, layouts, and processes to improve efficiency and reduce waste.
• Partner with design engineering to make new and existing products easier to build.
• Lead continuous improvement work using Lean, Six Sigma, mistake-proofing, or similar methods, and track KPIs that move Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth.
• Investigate production issues, find root causes, and put corrective actions in place.
• Specify, buy, and implement equipment, tooling, and fixtures, and build the business case for capital equipment.
• Write and maintain work instructions, process documentation, and SOPs.
• Train production associates on new processes, equipment, and best practices.
• Keep operations compliant with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Work with tooling and equipment suppliers to hit company and project goals.
• Take on additional responsibilities as needed to support team goals and project milestones.