Senior Automation & Manufacturing Engineer - Lead & Optimize

Urbint; South Carolina; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Itron, located in West Union, SC, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead the development, optimization, and industrialization of manufacturing processes and automation for safety‑critical utilities and energy products.

The role partners with design, quality, and operations to manage projects, resolve manufacturing challenges, and drive continuous improvements that enhance safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance, while guiding equipment selection and process documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on manufacturing engineering in a regulated or technology-driven environment.
• Experience managing projects with timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Proven ability to resolve complex manufacturing and quality challenges using structured problem-solving methods.
• Strong collaboration and communication across engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve manufacturing methods, process flows, and operation sequences in a safety-critical, tech-driven environment.
• Lead manufacturing engineering projects with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and program deliverables.
• Collaborate with Design Engineering to ensure manufacturability and scalability of new products.
• Estimate costs, establish time standards, and recommend tooling, equipment, and automation needs.
• Support automation solutions (PLCs, robotics, vision systems) and drive continuous improvement for safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Analyze downstream impact of changes on components and systems.
• Resolve manufacturing and quality issues through root-cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
• Prepare and maintain manufacturing plans, schedules, budgets, and timelines for agile execution.
• Specify and justify procurement of new equipment to enable new products and capacity.
• Develop and maintain work instructions, procedures, and manufacturing documentation.
• Create process flow diagrams and support PFMEA, MFMEA, and control plan development.
• Recommend process/product changes to improve OEE and KPIs.
• Maintain records and reporting to ensure alignment across operations.

Skills

Project management

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or related technical field

Tools

CAD (SolidWorks/Creo)

PLC programming

Robotics

Vision systems

Job description

Itron, located in West Union, SC, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead the development, optimization, and industrialization of manufacturing processes and automation for safety‑critical utilities and energy products.

The role partners with design, quality, and operations to manage projects, resolve manufacturing challenges, and drive continuous improvements that enhance safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance, while guiding equipment selection and process documentation.