Manufacturing Process Leader - Drive Throughput & Quality

Soap Creek Resources; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Soap Creek Resources seeks a Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor to lead and optimize manufacturing engineering activities for a precision sensor and components manufacturer. This role blends team leadership with hands-on process development, tooling, work instructions and day-to-day problem solving.

You will guide new product introductions, coordinate engineering priorities, and drive improvements in cycle time, yield, and quality while ensuring safety and documentation standards are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience supervising technical personnel or leading projects is required.
• Knowledge of process development, tooling, work instructions, drawings, and root-cause analysis is expected.

Responsibilities

• Supervise manufacturing engineering activities to improve readiness, reliability, quality and throughput.
• Prioritize workload for production support and new product introductions.
• Develop and improve methods, routings, standard work, tooling and fixtures.
• Lead transition of new/revised products into repeatable production processes with documentation and training.
• Provide technical support for production issues and coordinate corrective actions.
• Identify and reduce cycle time, labor utilization, scrap, and rework.
• Collaborate with design engineering to review manufacturability and constraints.
• Support equipment selection, capital justification, installation and validation.
• Coach engineers and technicians and maintain process documentation.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Process development

Problem solving

Project management

Cross-functional work

Education

Bachelor's in ME

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Soap Creek Resources seeks a Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor to lead and optimize manufacturing engineering activities for a precision sensor and components manufacturer. This role blends team leadership with hands-on process development, tooling, work instructions and day-to-day problem solving.

You will guide new product introductions, coordinate engineering priorities, and drive improvements in cycle time, yield, and quality while ensuring safety and documentation standards are met.