Manufacturing Engineering Manager

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The Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Polygon will lead Polygon’s Manufacturing Engineering function, the organization at the forefront of continuous improvement and manufacturing technology at the company. The Manager will be responsible for overseeing Polygon’s Manufacturing Engineering team (4 FTE) and leading cross‑functional projects to improve key manufacturing KPIs including quality, on‑time delivery, capacity, and operator safety. The Manager will both lead and directly execute projects identified in partnership with the company’s executive leadership team.

The Manager will be a champion for operational excellence, leveraging existing technology and tools while also adopting new ones to continue to elevate Polygon’s standards for manufacturing excellence.

• Provide mentorship and leadership training for direct reports, developing engineers in their technical fluency and ability to manage people and process.
• Establish priorities for the team and manage project prioritization and work‑in‑progress to ensure proper focus and delivery.
• Develop the long‑term goals for the manufacturing engineering team that align the group with the overall company strategy.
• Define the key KPIs internal to the manufacturing engineering team to maintain a focus on business partnership and value delivery.

• Serve as the company’s champion for continuous improvement (“CI”), extending and deepening a culture focused on seeking better to produce world‑class products.
• Identify and use continuous improvement tools to achieve desired improvements on the plant floor or in supporting engineering workflows (NPIs, ECOs, etc.).
• Own the achievement of specific process improvement goals for the year such as improved bottleneck utilization, reduced process variability, work‑center productivity growth, and improved product flow.
• Develop CI tools that can be repeatably deployed to solve problems on the plant floor – evolve the team from “reinventing the wheel” on each project to leveraging playbooks.
• Provide guidance on projects to ensure that projects achieve their objective and are implemented sustainably before concluding.
• Oversee design and implementation of jigs, fixtures, and process aids to ensure repeatability and operator safety across diverse product families.

• Oversee team activities related to manufacturing change control, specifically including the engineering change order (ECO) and router management processes.
• Guide the team in the development and updating of job instructions for key manufacturing processes for use by operations leadership.
• Participate in the new product introduction (NPI) process, ensuring that operational requirements are captured and new customers have a seamless implementation experience.

• Leverage the existing information collected by the business to identify areas where the production process can be improved and identify priority areas where new information should be collected.
• Use analytical tools from manufacturing and statistics to guide improvement efforts on the plant floor. Provide expertise in tools like Design of Experiments and statistical analysis (e.g. regressions, etc.) to help uncover new insights from data.
• Lead efforts to provide timely and accurate information to operations on manufacturing performance through the development of reporting tools via platforms like Power
  
  BI and Grafana.
• Oversee manual data collection efforts such as time studies to ensure high‑quality and usable information.
• Develop the manufacturing engineering team into the company’s power users of plant floor data. Actively maintain and expand the data collection on the plant floor (e.g., sensor deployment) as part of the company’s Industrial Internet of Things (“IIOT”) strategy.

• Lead Polygon’s automation efforts, partnering with management to identify high‑priority automation opportunities and directly owning the development of automation solutions in…