Role Summary
The Staff Manufacturing Engineer serves as the primary technical authority for the Global Strategic Growth (GSG) team. In this role, you will evaluate, design, and validate the manufacturing frameworks required to execute complex capacity expansion projects—including greenfield and brownfield site builds, strategic joint ventures, partnerships, and targeted acquisitions.
Working upstream of traditional operations, you will translate high-level demand projections into fully defined manufacturing requirements across facilities, equipment, processes, labor, quality systems, and EHS compliance. Your technical due diligence assessments, CAPEX/OPEX models, and risk-mitigation frameworks will directly inform executive go/no-go decisions and set the baseline for plant readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lead manufacturing due diligence evaluations for prospective targets, partners, joint ventures, and new site locations.
- Establish site-visit agendas, evaluation criteria, and empirical evidence protocols to validate true production capacity and capability.
- Assess site capability across key processes, including heavy fabrication, structural welding, coating/finishing, mechanical and electrical integration, assembly, testing, and packaging.
- Translate product design, customer demand, and regulatory criteria into technical requirements for plant layout, tooling, equipment, labor, and quality systems.
- Rigorously validate stated plant capacity using TAKT time, cycle time, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), uptime, shift models, changeover mechanics, yield, rework rates, and material flow analysis.
- Develop current-state and future-state value stream maps, conceptual line layouts, equipment specs, tooling requirements, and facility utility assumptions.
- Estimate CAPEX budgets, one-time launch expenditures, recurring operational cost impacts, and resource schedules required to close identified operational gaps.
- Quantify operational gaps against GTI standards, evaluating associated safety, quality, schedule, delivery, and business continuity risks.
- Maintain technical risk registers, decision logs, and close-gap action trackers; define formal technical conditions required prior to contract execution or investment approval.
- Support make/buy analyses, site selection, partner selection, and capital allocation with data-driven recommendations.
- Lead equipment technical reviews, supplier evaluations, installation, commissioning, process validation, and readiness tracking when projects advance to execution.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, and NPI leadership to establish clear manufacturing handoff criteria and transition projects to sustaining ownership.
- Standardize diligence toolkits, templates, checklists, and manufacturing benchmarks; mentor junior engineering personnel on complex manufacturing challenges.
Technical Due Diligence & Site Assessments
Required Qualifications
Technical Due Diligence & M&A: Demonstrated experience conducting technical due diligence assessments, site evaluations, and gap analyses for target acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic supplier partnerships, or new site selection (greenfield/brownfield).
Advanced Capacity & Process Modeling: High proficiency in industrial engineering methodologies, including TAKT time, cycle time analysis, constraint/bottleneck identification, OEE, shift modeling, yield/rework analysis, and Value Stream Mapping.
Capital Costing & Line Design: Proven ability to create conceptual plant and line layouts, define equipment and tooling specifications, and build accurate CAPEX, launch cost, and utility/infrastructure estimates.
Commissioning & Launch Readiness: Practical experience leading equipment technical reviews, supplier evaluations, installation, commissioning, process validation, and formal operational handoffs.
Risk & Decision Governance: Experience establishing technical risk registers, decision logs, and conditional acceptance criteria to guide capital allocation and executive go/no-go decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Education: Master’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Business Administration (MBA).
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence and align multi-disciplinary teams—including Executive Leadership, Real Estate, EHS, Quality, Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain—without direct reporting authority.
- Multi-Site Operations: Prior experience managing technical evaluations or launch readiness across geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities.
- Continuous Improvement Certification: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent certification in continuous improvement methodologies.
Perks & Benefits
GTI offers a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support employees and their families while providing long-term career growth opportunities within a fast-growing manufacturing organization. Benefits may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match (where applicable)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays
- Sick time in accordance with state and local requirements
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Career advancement opportunities within a rapidly growing organization
- Exposure to advanced manufacturing, modular infrastructure, and large-scale industrial projects
- Collaborative, fast-paced environment with strong operational and engineering leadership
- Employee-focused culture centered on safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
Benefits eligibility and offerings may vary based on position, location, and employment classification.
GTI promotes a diverse and inclusive workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other Federal or State legally-protected classes. We also value the safety of all employees and work hard to maintain a Drug Free Workplace.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience in heavy industrial, engineered-to-order, or complex mechanical/electrical integration environments
- Experience leading complex product launches from early concept through full production release within a structured phase-gate framework
- Expertise in heavy fabrication, structural steel, electrical panel and harness assembly, integration, and custom tooling or fixture design
- Experience providing technical direction to cross-functional project teams and mentoring engineers without direct supervisory authority
- Advanced root-cause problem-solving experience using PFMEA, 8D, DMAIC, and Fishbone methods
- Experience in contract manufacturing, modular fabrication, energy systems, or defense manufacturing
- Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, advanced DFX, or structured launch methodologies for high-mix custom manufacturing
- Experience writing CapEx proposals, specifying high-value manufacturing equipment, and executing plant layout or line relocation projects
- Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean Manufacturing certification
What We Do
GTI Fabrication is a leading U.S.-based contract manufacturer specializing in complex steel enclosures and fully integrated systems for critical industries, including Energy Storage (BESS), Defense, Data Centers, and Power Generation. Founded in 2015, the company provides high-volume production and end-to-end engineering services, specializing in modular containerized solutions and structural steel fabrication across its facilities in the United States and Mexico.
