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Leads manufacturing engineering, methods, and programming teams while overseeing process development, production methods, tooling, equipment validation, BOM and BOO accuracy, quality compliance, and continuous improvement. Drives lean manufacturing, cost reduction, productivity, safety, and smooth product transitions into production. Establishes engineering plans, budgets, schedules, and metrics, and manages hiring, coaching, performance, and development across the engineering organization.

Leads the drafting team in converting product designs into shop drawings and customer submittal packages. Manages drafting processes, standards, compliance, quality, efficiency, hiring, training, and team development. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations to improve workflows, standardize designs, and reduce quality issues. Communicates with internal and external customers and drives annual efficiency gains.

Manages assigned customer accounts and supports sales growth through quotations, order execution, customer communication, scorecard reconciliation, forecasting, and demand signal management. Coordinates with planning, scheduling, operations, supply chain, finance, and sales leadership to resolve issues, maintain data integrity, protect margins, and identify growth opportunities. The role is primarily internal with up to 10% travel in the U.S. and Canada.

Leads production planning, scheduling, capacity utilization, and order fulfillment for the Circular Products business unit. Manages Scheduling Supervisors and teams, establishes scheduling processes and performance expectations, oversees ERP planning parameters and PFEP, and drives continuous improvement. Partners with Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations on capacity, inventory, productivity, delivery, and financial objectives. Conducts root cause analysis, develops training and standard work, and serves as the scheduling and ERP planning subject matter expert.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for manufacturing roles across Sauk Rapids and Winsted, including sourcing, interviewing, candidate evaluation, hiring, offer negotiation, and onboarding support. Partner with hiring managers and HR generalists, manage job postings and applicant tracking workflows, build diverse candidate pipelines, develop community and agency relationships, and improve quality of hire, time-to-fill, compliance, and candidate experience.

Own and optimize CAD drafting tools, product documentation, engineering change processes, and design automation workflows. Lead continuous improvement projects involving DriveWorks, SolidWorks, PDM, and third-party vendors to increase productivity, standardize designs, and improve manufacturing handoffs. Develop process roadmaps, manage project scope, schedule, and budget, perform design analysis, and collaborate with manufacturing, sales, and technical stakeholders.

Leads new product development projects from planning through manufacturing release. Manages project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, approvals, capital investments, equipment scale-up, design for manufacturability, quality, and stakeholder communication. Collaborates with sales, customers, manufacturing teams, and internal or external production partners while providing technical engineering oversight and resolving quality issues.

Creates and maintains bills of material, routings, part master data, and manufacturing methods in Epicor ERP. Translates engineering drawings into production-ready documentation, implements engineering change updates, audits data integrity, and supports change control. Collaborates with drafting, engineering, operations, quality, and planning teams to validate processes and resolve issues. Maintains methods standards, work instructions, and training materials while supporting continuous improvement. The role is onsite with occasional production-floor exposure and PPE requirements.

Directs engineering and product design strategy for transportation and infrastructure products. Leads product development, design standardization, calculations, customer and DOT engagement, and collaboration with manufacturing, drafting, supply chain, operations, sales, and customer experience teams. Builds and develops a high-performing engineering team, manages escalations, supports new-market entry, participates in industry committees, and ensures designs align with manufacturing standards and customer specifications.