Manufacturing Engineering Leader: Build & Scale Teams

Movement Search & Delivery; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Movement Search & Delivery in Nashville, TN seeks a Director of Engineering to build and lead a high-impact manufacturing engineering organization. This role demands hands-on leadership, process discipline, and a track record of developing teams who deliver measurable improvements on the plant floor.

You'll drive engineering strategy, partner with operations, and implement best practices that raise equipment reliability, throughput, and product quality while coaching engineers to think

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with metal stamping and forming
• A track record of building and developing engineering teams and direct reports
• Strong change-management skills: you know how to bring people along, not just hand down a plan
• Proven ability to establish and implement engineering processes and best practices
• A hands-on leader who’s at home on the manufacturing floor, not just in the conference room
• Results improving equipment, processes, reliability and manufacturing capability
• Stable career history with clear, demonstrated progression

Responsibilities

• Engineer smart solutions around the equipment, people and resources on hand
• Create processes from scratch rather than simply follow established ones
• Bring structure and best practices without adding bureaucracy
• Turn engineers into sharper critical thinkers and problem solvers
• Build a more data-and-process-driven engineering organization
• Partner closely with operations and manufacturing to turn ideas into measurable results on the plant floor

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Engineering leadership

Change management

Engineering processes

Manufacturing floor presence

Data-driven improvements

Career progression

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Job description

Movement Search & Delivery in Nashville, TN seeks a Director of Engineering to build and lead a high-impact manufacturing engineering organization. This role demands hands-on leadership, process discipline, and a track record of developing teams who deliver measurable improvements on the plant floor.

You'll drive engineering strategy, partner with operations, and implement best practices that raise equipment reliability, throughput, and product quality while coaching engineers to think