Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor

Summary

The Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor leads a team of Manufacturing Engineers responsible for developing, optimizing, and sustaining manufacturing processes. Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, this role provides day-to-day leadership and technical direction to drive process improvement, operational performance, and engineering excellence. The successful candidate is a hands-on leader who develops talent, fosters accountability, removes barriers, and ensures improvement initiatives deliver measurable, sustainable results.

Essential Functions

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Manufacturing Engineers.
• Establish clear priorities, expectations, performance standards, and accountability.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and career development discussions.
• Build team capability through individual development plans, cross-training, and expanded technical responsibilities.
• Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, data-driven decision making, and proactive problem solving.

Manufacturing Performance & Process Excellence

• Own Manufacturing Engineering performance against key KPIs, including scrap, yield, OEE, downtime, process capability, and productivity.
• Partner with Operations to align engineering priorities with production requirements and business objectives.
• Lead efforts to stabilize processes, improve process capability, and establish repeatable, controlled manufacturing methods.
• Drive regular performance reviews to identify losses, prioritize improvements, and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure standard work is developed, trained, followed, and sustained while establishing clear process ownership and accountability.

Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving

• Lead cross-functional efforts to resolve process failures, recurring defects, scrap, yield losses, downtime, and other manufacturing challenges.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute continuous improvement projects that enhance safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance.
• Analyze process variation, identify bottlenecks and constraints, and implement solutions to improve throughput, capacity, and consistency.
• Support equipment, tooling, fixture, automation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Identify and implement cost-reduction opportunities while maintaining safety, quality, and product performance.

Leadership & Execution

• Lead through the team by developing engineers to independently identify, solve, and prevent manufacturing problems.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor to understand conditions, coach employees, and support execution.
• Use data to prioritize issues, balance short-term production needs with long-term improvements, and drive issues to closure.
• Communicate priorities, risks, resource needs, and technical issues effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Escalate significant performance risks, resource constraints, and unresolved issues as appropriate.
• Model and promote the company's core values of integrity, commitment, innovation, customer focus, and teamwork.