Manufacturing Excellence Lead — Lean & Process Improvement

Munters; Daleville (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible work schedule

Generous vacation and PTO

401(k) with employer matching

Professional development opportunities

Tuition reimbursement and conference

Team-building events

Job summary

Munters Corporation in Daleville, VA is seeking a Manufacturing Efficiency Engineer Manager to lead the Manufacturing Engineering team in building and optimizing scalable production systems. You will drive safety, quality, and cost targets while ensuring readiness for demand and smooth production transitions.

You will collaborate with Design Engineering, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, Safety, Maintenance, Test, and Finance to advance Lean initiatives, capital projects, and standardized

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Operations, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, operations, or continuous improvement.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or manufacturing engineering functions.
• Strong experience with Lean Manufacturing, line design, productivity, capacity planning, and process optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Manufacturing Engineering team and manufacturing system owners.
• Establish and improve production processes, layouts, standard work, staffing, capacity, tooling, and material flow.
• Protect production takt and schedule performance by identifying constraints, validating cycle times, balancing labor, and developing capacity plans.
• Lead production readiness activities for new products and manufacturing changes, ensuring materials, tooling, equipment, staffing, standard work, and testing are ready before production.
• Partner with Design Engineering and R&D on DFM/DF A.
• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives using 5S, line balancing, SMED, Kanban, JIT, DMAIC, visual management, root-cause analysis, and error-proofing.
• Identify and eliminate waste, bottlenecks, rework, downtime, and process variation.
• Develop and evaluate capital and automation projects using labor savings, capacity, quality, risk reduction, ROI, and payback analysis.
• Turn production challenges into sustainable process improvements and permanent corrective actions.
• Develop and track manufacturing KPIs, including takt attainment, labor hours per unit, capacity, first-pass yield, rework, downtime, lead time, WIP, cost savings, and productivity.
• Support and drive standardization across manufacturing processes while ensuring changes are properly evaluated, validated, and implemented.
• Champion a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Line design

Capacity planning

Process optimization

Cross-functional projects

Analytical skills

Financial analysis

Problem solving

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in manufacturing/industrial/mechanical/electrical engineering or related

Job description

Munters Corporation in Daleville, VA is seeking a Manufacturing Efficiency Engineer Manager to lead the Manufacturing Engineering team in building and optimizing scalable production systems. You will drive safety, quality, and cost targets while ensuring readiness for demand and smooth production transitions.

You will collaborate with Design Engineering, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, Safety, Maintenance, Test, and Finance to advance Lean initiatives, capital projects, and standardized