Director of Manufacturing Engineering

MAS creates custom-engineered thermal management solutions for markets that thrive on flexibility, creativity, and bold ideas. From humble beginnings to becoming an emergent multi‑brand manufacturing leader, we’ve grown by bringing in great people and empowering them to do great work.

At MAS, we believe innovation happens when everyone contributes, diversity of thought is celebrated, and people feel supported in their growth. We take pride in working hard together—tackling challenges, solving problems, and having fun along the way. As we expand into both emerging and mission-critical industries, we stay committed to delivering efficient, competitive, and sustainable heating and cooling technologies. And throughout your career here, you’ll have the chance to directly shape the foundation for what's next in our industry.

Position Summary:

The Director of Manufacturing Engineering is responsible for strategic leadership and execution excellence across Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering functions. This role builds and sustains robust standard work, design-for-manufacture excellence, fabrication capability, automation strategy, and advanced manufacturing technologies while embedding lean manufacturing principles and a culture of ownership.

The Director ensures manufacturability from concept through production, relentlessly improves safety, quality, delivery, and cost, and develops an engineering organization that owns manufacturing performance, not just support functions.

Key Responsibilities

Manufacturing Engineering & Ownership

• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering teams.
• Drive a factory-centric engineering mentality, ensuring engineers are embedded with operations and accountable for outcomes.
• Define and maintain manufacturing engineering standards, best practices, and governance models across all sites.
• First factory launches on time with stable yields
• Own the tooling, programing, nesting and manufacturing process set up and operation for all equipment and processes

Standard Work & Process Discipline

• Lead development, deployment, and sustainment of robust standard work instructions for all manufacturing and fabrication processes.
• Design fabrication and assembly processes that can scale without rework
• Ensure standard work is visual, auditable, continuously improved, and tightly integrated with training and qualification processes.
• Champion error-proofing (poka-yoke), process capability, and documentation rigor.

Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFM/DFA)

• Own the DFM/DFA framework across product development and lifecycle engineering.
• Partner with Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability, scalability, automation readiness, and cost targets are achieved early.
• Establish manufacturing readiness and design review gates tied to production launch success metrics.

Fabrication & Production Process Excellence

• Lead engineering strategy for fabrication, machining, welding/brazing, forming, paint and assembly processes.
• Drive process capability, yield improvement, and cycle time reduction across fabrication operations.
• Evaluate and implement equipment upgrades, tooling strategies, and process innovations to support growth and complexity.

Automation & Advanced Manufacturing

• Develop and execute a long-term automation and digital manufacturing roadmap.
• Lead implementation of robotics, automated assembly, vision systems, additive manufacturing, and smart factory technologies.
• Leverage data, sensors, MES, and analytics to improve throughput, quality, and predictability.

Lean Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with the CI Leader to implement and standardize Lean Manufacturing principles (flow, pull, takt, standard work, continuous improvement) throughout engineering and operations.
• Partner with Operations leadership to deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.

Talent Development & Leadership

• Build a high-performing, technically strong, and results-driven engineering organization.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, technical mentoring, and structured development plans.
• Promote a culture of accountability, innovation, learning, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing engineering leadership experience, including fabrication and automation environments.
• Demonstrated success implementing standard work systems, DFM/DFA, and lean manufacturing transformations.
• Strong technical expertise in process engineering, automation technologies, and advanced manufacturing tools.
• Proven ability to lead multi-site or complex manufacturing organizations.

Preferred:

• Experience scaling automation & digital manufacturing in high‑mix or high‑volume environments.
• Deep understanding of industrial engineering methods (work measurement, line balancing, capacity modeling).
• Exposure to Industry 4.0, MES, digital twins, or advanced data-driven manufacturing systems.
• Track record of launching new products into production with strong manufacturability outcomes.

Key Competencies:

• Ownership mindset with bias for action and results.
• Strong systemic thinker with hands-on manufacturing judgment.
• Effective communicator who aligns engineering with operations and business objectives.
• Change leader who can challenge norms while building trust and engagement

Benefits:

• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group term life insurance coverage
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care plans available
• 8 paid holidays, 4 floating holidays, and generous PTO policy
• 401k matching
• Company paid events
• Annual safety shoe allowance
• Education assistance program

EEO Statement:

MAS HVAC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other legally protected status.

Employment decisions at MAS HVAC are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind and actively promote a culture of fairness, equity, and opportunity.

We also provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observances, in accordance with applicable laws.