Production Engineering Manager

Pro Found Staffing is working with a growing environmental-friendly manufacturing company located in (West Houston near I-10 & Beltway
8) Houston, Texas searching for a Production Engineering Manager. The best candidate for this role will understand that you and your team will be judged on the clarity, consistency, and speed of your 3D models, production drawings, and part files. If you’ve been in meetings where you felt blamed for production issues or took feedback personally, this role may not be for you.

Here, feedback is not a threat — it is a tool for getting better. If you’ve caught yourself saying “production always gets this wrong” or “installation keeps making mistakes,” this role will be frustrating. The mindset we expect is: if something failed downstream, the drawing wasn’t clear enough.

In this position, problems do not stay in Houston. If a field team can’t assemble a critical substructure or is struggling to interpret the drawings mid-install, you may need to fly out. Not to take the blame, but to help solve the right problem firsthand. Root cause work requires context.

This role is for someone who finds real pride in building engineering systems that scale. Where a clean 3D model becomes a clean cut, and a clean install. When you do your job well, production moves faster, containers load without rework, and installs go in smoothly. Whether it is in the northern territories of Canada, the southern tip of Spain, or across the Pacific.

Over time, NCRs disappear, throughput improves, and your team starts humming. That is the payoff: seeing your discipline echoed across continents, and knowing your team’s accuracy makes the whole company sharper, faster, and stronger.

If this excites you, even if it also intimidates you, you might be humble and hungry enough for this role.

This is an onsite position in Houston, Texas.

This role is primarily based onsite in Houston at the manufacturing facility and does not involve regular travel. However, when production issues are discovered during installation, the Production Engineering Manager—often with the responsible production engineer—will travel to the job site for on-site root cause analysis. At this company, there is no such thing as “just an installation issue” or “just a production issue.”

Ownership spans the entire process, and resolving problems may require occasional travel to client sites to see the issue firsthand and develop the right solution.

This company operates a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility designed to support their proprietary system and specialized aluminum extrusion products. All production engineering work relies on Autodesk Inventor for 3D modeling, ensuring tight integration between design, manufacturing, and installation. The Production Engineering Manager will oversee engineering deliverables that feed directly into this equipment and workflow. Key equipment includes:

• 2,500 metric ton, 8-inch aluminum extrusion press
• Multiple gantry and vertical CNC milling machining centers
• Brake press and dedicated welding department for custom assemblies

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering (required).

• 10+ years in engineering, with 5+ years leading production/manufacturing engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in 3D modeling workflows, vault management, and revision control.
• Hands‑on lean manufacturing experience and continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong collaboration skills—integrates feedback from shop floor, procurement, and field teams.
• Comfort working closely with R&D and prototype engineers to implement design upgrades.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team consisting of two full‑time 3D modelers, a QA engineer (shared or dedicated), and two part‑time freelance drafters/engineers who convert 3D models into production‑ready drawings.
• Allocate resources tactically, deciding when to engage freelance engineers, when to shift internal team members between production and project engineering, and how to maximize throughput without sacrificing quality.
• Ensure the engineering team delivers production packages that…