Manufacturing Engineer

About ERMCO

Electric Research and Manufacturing Cooperative, Inc. (ERMCO) is the leading manufacturer of distribution transformers and engineered electrical solutions, serving electric utilities, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and industrial customers across North America. Headquartered in Dyersburg, Tenn., ERMCO delivers reliable, high-quality products that power homes, businesses, and communities across North America.

With a commitment to safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, ERMCO is at the forefront of supporting grid modernization and energy transition. Our vertically integrated operations, customer-focused culture, and investment in people and technology make ERMCO the Most Valued Partner for delivering resilient, sustainable power infrastructure for the future.

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating manufacturing processes in the industrial plant.  The Manufacturing Engineer does not own daily maintenance supervision, maintenance scheduling, routine craft execution, Quality-system governance, or overall project governance assigned to a Technical Project Manager. The role owns engineering content and permanent process or equipment solutions within the agreed scope.

This position is located at our headquarters in Dyersburg, TN. Relocation assistance will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Observe work at the Gemba to define the current condition, required condition, obstacles, and measurable target before selecting solutions. 

• Analyze cycle time, queues, labor and material flow, changeovers, process capability, downtime, defects, and schedule performance to identify constraints and variability. 

• Improve the plant constraint while avoiding local changes that do not improve total throughput, lead time, quality, safety, or risk. 

• Improve manufacturing methods, workstations, layouts, tooling, fixtures, controls, material handling, automation, and process parameters. 

• Partner with Quality to apply PFMEA, control plans, SPC, capability analysis, root-cause analysis, and validation methods. 

• Use PDCA and structured experiments to test countermeasures, separate assumptions from facts, and verify results before standardizing. 

• Convert validated improvements into standard work, settings, drawings, specifications, control plans, training, and operating routines. 

• Partner with Maintenance and Reliability to eliminate recurring failures requiring design, process, controls, access, or maintainability changes. 

• Include reliability, maintainability, safe access, diagnostics, component standardization, spare parts, and lifecycle cost in equipment changes and specifications. 

• Develop technical scopes, cost estimates, schedules, risk reviews, and business cases for modifications, rebuilds, replacements, and capital projects. 

• Coordinate vendors and support design review, installation, commissioning, acceptance testing, training, and post-implementation verification. 

• Coach operators, technicians, and partners in observation, cause-and-effect thinking, experimentation, and follow-through. 
• Maintain a regular plant-floor presence and clearly communicate progress, risk, assumptions, decisions, and support needs. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering; Engineering Technology; or a related discipline. 
• Demonstrated structured problem-solving using direct observation, data, root-cause analysis, experimentation, and validation. 
• Working proficiency in process capability, SPC, PFMEA, control plans, time and capacity analysis, and technical documentation. 
• Ability to translate production needs into practical equipment, tooling, process, layout, or automation solutions. 
• Ability to influence across functions, communicate calmly under pressure, maintain substantial gemba presence, and sustain improvements after launch.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Improving constrained or highly variable manufacturing processes. 
• CAD, equipment specifications, capital justification, vendor management, commissioning, and change control. 
• Reliability, maintainability, PM/PdM, lifecycle cost, and asset-risk principles. 
• Transformer, electrical equipment, fabrication, assembly, testing, or complex discrete manufacturing. 
• Lean, Six Sigma, project management, or similar credentials supported by practical application. 

Let’s Build the Future Together

At ERMCO, your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your impact is real. Whether you’re building on early career experience or launching your professional journey, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, contribute, and grow in a manufacturing environment that values innovation and collaboration.

Join ERMCO and TRANSFORM your career!