Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer: Automation & Capital

Navistar, Inc.; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Navistar, Inc. in San Antonio seeks a Senior Project Engineer – Manufacturing Engineering to lead capital projects across Body, Paint, and General Assembly.

You will define scope, budgets, schedules, and risks, while coordinating with operations, maintenance, safety, and suppliers to deliver on time and within cost. The role demands hands‑on shop floor presence, strong technical know‑how in tooling and automated systems, and the ability to move concepts to production handoff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of product manufacturing experience.
• Or Master’s degree with no experience.
• Or at least 3 years of product manufacturing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing engineering projects across the San Antonio campus, including Body, Paint, and General Assembly.
• Lead multi-million-dollar capital projects from initial concept through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, and production handoff.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and deliverables to ensure successful project execution.
• Develop and contribute to internal Statements of Work (SOWs), equipment specifications, project plans, and capital requests.
• Coordinate with internal engineering resources, contractors, suppliers, and equipment integrators throughout project execution.
• Develop project concepts and evaluate alternative solutions based on safety, quality, capacity, cost, ergonomics, maintainability, and production requirements.
• Serve as the technical project lead for manufacturing equipment, tooling, automation, and process‑related projects.
• Provide hands‑on technical support during equipment installation, startup, commissioning, troubleshooting, and production launch.
• Lead project readiness activities and ensure equipment and processes meet defined performance metrics prior to production handoff.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, R&D, and other functional organizations to identify requirements and resolve project issues.
• Respond to assignment directives, customer requests, plant priorities, and special engineering assignments and develop actionable technical solutions.
• Evaluate existing processes and equipment and identify opportunities for capacity, quality, safety, cost, and efficiency improvements.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, technical specifications, schedules, budgets, and project status reporting.
• Provide regular project updates and recommendations to Engineering and plant leadership.
• Manage supplier and contractor performance and ensure deliverables meet project requirements.
• Support development and implementation of error‑proofing, automated fastening, data collection, and process monitoring solutions.
• Apply knowledge of industrial tooling and fastening systems to develop, deploy, troubleshoot, and improve manufacturing solutions.
• Support the deployment, integration, and validation of Atlas Copco tooling, controllers, fastening systems, and associated systems.
• Ensure new and modified processes comply with applicable manufacturing, safety, quality, and engineering standards.
• Develop and contribute to lessons learned, standards, and best practices to improve future project execution.
• Resolve line downtime issues and production concerns including process, quality and safety related items.

Skills

Project leadership

PM experience

Manufacturing engineering

Hands-on tooling

Atlas Copco tooling

Team leadership

Problem solving

Data-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Atlas Copco tooling

Teamcenter

Job description

Navistar, Inc. in San Antonio seeks a Senior Project Engineer – Manufacturing Engineering to lead capital projects across Body, Paint, and General Assembly.

You will define scope, budgets, schedules, and risks, while coordinating with operations, maintenance, safety, and suppliers to deliver on time and within cost. The role demands hands‑on shop floor presence, strong technical know‑how in tooling and automated systems, and the ability to move concepts to production handoff.