Lead Manufacturing Engineer (1st Shift)

Stefanini; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini is hiring a Lead Manufacturing Engineer / Project Manager to lead 1st shift operations in Dublin, VA. The role focuses on people leadership, staffing, payroll, and performance management within a Lean environment.

Responsibilities include safety, quality control, daily team meetings, and continuous improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in leadership roles and proficiency with MS Office and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Leadership and supervisory experience in manufacturing.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and Power BI.
• Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor manufacturing teams; coordinate staffing and timekeeping.
• Oversee payroll and time reporting; manage performance.
• Lead safety, quality checks, and daily team meetings; drive lean improvement initiatives.
• Engage in cross-functional problem solving and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Teamwork

Emotional intelligence

Education

Associate degree or higher

Lean Six Sigma Certification

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Join us to co-create solutions for a better future!

Job Details

Project Manager

Lead Manufacturing Engineer (1st Shift) Dublin,VA Posted:10/13/2026 Job Description Job ID#:

65159

Job Category:

Project Manager

Position Type:

Contract

Duration:

Long Term

Shift:

1

Remaining Positions:

1

Details:

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Stefanini is looking for a Lead Manufacturing Engineer (1st Shift) in Dublin, VA

Work Location: 4881 Cougar Trail Rd, Dublin, VA 24084

Shift: 1st shift (5:30AM - 3:00PM)

Responsibilities

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination
• Manage staffing needs on a daily basis
• Payroll and time keeping
• Performance management
• Lead and manage safety activities
• Daily management of quality checks
• Daily team meetings
• Process Improvement initiatives and efforts

Principal Duties and Accountabilities (*Essential Functions)

• Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area
• Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinate teams (direct staff & support functions) and approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner for meeting Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee's ideas and suggestions
• Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same
• Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline
• Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement. Advanced ability to apply various Lean Manufacturing tools
• Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving

Job Requirements Details:

LEADERSHIP AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, time management, planning, organizational, and analytical skills with proven results
• Integrity - Ensures both consistency of and compliance with company and departmental policies/procedures and performance standards. Implements operational plans to achieve designated objectives, established performance goals and quality standards.
• Ability to analyze procedures, routine reports, and correspondence with a strong attention to detail
• Identifies, reports and communicates to the Department Manager trends and/or irregularities. Takes a proactive approach to analyzing deficiencies and develops plans to correct. Recommends and implements solutions by involving team in problem solving to obtain the best results
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and driving for Results, Priority setting and decision making. Ability to make good, rapid decisions in a face paced environment.
• Foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with the operational stakeholders.
• Leads the team in creating an atmosphere that enables dialog and commitments that promote a continuous improvement mindset and has a favorable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the site through accuracy measurements.
• Self-awareness: knows personal strengths, weaknesses and limits. Gains insights from mistakes and is open to criticism.
• Able to have developmental conversations with direct reports.
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Preferred Associate Degree or higher
• Required 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role
• Preferred 3 to 5 years experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerBi
• Preferred Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification

Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience, qualifications, and local market.

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We also speak with you about the process including interviews and job offers.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are a CMM Level 5 company.

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Pay Range:

$ 45.00 - $ 47.00