Sr. Director, Manufacturing Engineering NA

US11 Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours/hybrid work env.

Discounts on Electrolux products & 401

Family-friendly benefits; Insurance &

Extensive learning opportunities

Job summary

Electrolux Group North America seeks a Senior Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering to define and execute the regional manufacturing engineering strategy across the full lifecycle from concept to sustained performance. The role integrates lean, automation, AI, digital manufacturing, and sustainability to deliver OEE, throughput, quality, and cost objectives across NA facilities.

The position is based in Springfield, TN, with a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of manufacturing engineering, automation, industrial engineering, or related experience, including 5+ years leading regional or multi-site operations.
• Proven leadership of large technical teams and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated success delivering industrialization, automation, digital manufacturing, and capital project initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the North America Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, technical standards, governance, and capability roadmap across all manufacturing sites.
• Lead product industrialization, including DFM/DFMA, process architecture, manufacturing concepts, and new product launch readiness.
• Direct production system, line, cell, and facility design to optimize safety, quality, capacity, productivity, flexibility, and cost.
• Establish and validate manufacturing performance targets, including OEE, throughput, yield, labor productivity, reliability, and energy consumption.
• Lead equipment, tooling, automation, and supplier selection through standardized specifications, capability assessments, cybersecurity requirements, and total cost of ownership analysis.
• Develop and execute the smart manufacturing roadmap, including MES, SCADA, IIoT, robotics, machine vision, digital work instructions, production traceability, and AI-enabled manufacturing solutions.
• Drive operational excellence through material flow optimization, intralogistics, constraint management, capacity planning, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Own regional manufacturing capital investment planning and execution, including business cases, investment requests, project governance, commissioning, and benefits realization.
• Lead capacity, footprint, and network optimization initiatives, including make-versus-buy decisions, line transfers, consolidations, and facility expansions.
• Establish manufacturing technology, OT/IT, data, connectivity, maintenance, and cybersecurity standards in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Embed sustainability, energy efficiency, and resource optimization into manufacturing system design and operations.
• Build and develop a high-performing regional engineering organization while ensuring consistent implementation of approved standards, processes, and ways of working across North America facilities.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Lean operations

Automation

AI analytics

Digital manufacturing

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

MES/SCADA

Industrial automation

Cybersecurity standards

Job description

Job Description At Electrolux Group, our vision is to be the home appliance industry leader in consumer satisfaction by delivering outstanding lifetime experiences with solutions that always get better. We share ideas and collaborate so that together, we can develop solutions that deliver more enjoyable and sustainable living. Come, join us as you are. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and more innovative. In our global community of people from 100+ countries, we listen to each other, actively contribute and grow together. Join us in our exciting quest to build the future home!

About the role:

The Senior Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering, North America (IME NA), is accountable for defining and executing the regional manufacturing engineering strategy across the full production-system lifecycle—from product and process concept through equipment selection, industrialization, commissioning, ramp-up, and sustained performance. This leader will integrate lean principles, automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, digital manufacturing, maintenance excellence, and material-flow design to create safe, flexible, scalable, and cost-competitive operations. The role owns the regional technical roadmap and ensures manufacturing systems are designed to deliver planned OEE, throughput, quality, labor productivity, maintainability, sustainability, and total cost objectives. Reporting to the COO, the Senior Director of IME NA will partner with factories, product lines, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, IT/OT, Procurement, and other operational teams to improve regional performance, enable strategic capacity and footprint decisions, and accelerate the deployment of standardized manufacturing technologies and ways of working.

Where you’ll be:

This position is located in Springfield, TN.

What you’ll do:

• Own the North America Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, technical standards, governance, and capability roadmap across all manufacturing sites.
• Lead product industrialization, including DFM/DFMA, process architecture, manufacturing concepts, and new product launch readiness.
• Direct production system, line, cell, and facility design to optimize safety, quality, capacity, productivity, flexibility, and cost.
• Establish and validate manufacturing performance targets, including OEE, throughput, yield, labor productivity, reliability, and energy consumption.
• Lead equipment, tooling, automation, and supplier selection through standardized specifications, capability assessments, cybersecurity requirements, and total cost of ownership analysis.
• Develop and execute the smart manufacturing roadmap, including MES, SCADA, IIoT, robotics, machine vision, digital work instructions, production traceability, and AI-enabled manufacturing solutions.
• Drive operational excellence through material flow optimization, intralogistics, constraint management, capacity planning, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Own regional manufacturing capital investment planning and execution, including business cases, investment requests, project governance, commissioning, and benefits realization.
• Lead capacity, footprint, and network optimization initiatives, including make-versus-buy decisions, line transfers, consolidations, and facility expansions.
• Establish manufacturing technology, OT/IT, data, connectivity, maintenance, and cybersecurity standards in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Embed sustainability, energy efficiency, and resource optimization into manufacturing system design and operations.
• Build and develop a high-performing regional engineering organization while ensuring consistent implementation of approved standards, processes, and ways of working across North America facilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of manufacturing engineering, automation, industrial engineering, or related experience, including 5+ years leading regional or multi-site operations.
• Proven leadership of large technical teams and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated success delivering industrialization, automation, digital manufacturing, and capital project initiatives.
• High-volume manufacturing experience and responsibility for major capital portfolios preferred.

Knowledges Skills and Abilities:

• Expertise in manufacturing system design, industrial engineering, lean operations, automation, and capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of Industry 4.0 technologies, including AI, analytics, IIoT, MES/SCADA, robotics, and digital manufacturing.
• Proven success driving productivity, reliability, cost, and operational performance improvements across multiple sites.
• Strategic leader with strong financial acumen, change management experience, and a track record of developing high-performing teams and scalable solutions.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Ability to balance strategic transformation with day-to-day operational demands and move seamlessly between executive leadership and technical problem-solving.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly across the North America manufacturing network and to supplier or technology-partner locations as required.

Benefits highlights:

• Flexible work hours/hybrid work environment.
• Discounts on our award-winning Electrolux products and services.
• Family-friendly benefits; Insurance policy plan and 401k.
• Extensive learning opportunities and flexible career path.

As part of Electrolux, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you. Come, join us as you are. Find more on: Electrolux Group North America: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electrolux/life/northamerica/ Electrolux Group Careers: https://career.electroluxgroup.com/global/en

Electrolux Home Products, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request through [e-mail]. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Please be advised that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position at this time.

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Electrolux Group is a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years. We reinvent taste, care and wellbeing experiences for millions of people, always striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through our solutions and operations. Under our group of leading appliance brands, including Electrolux, AEG and Frigidaire, we sell household products in around 120 markets every year. In 2023 Electrolux Group had sales of SEK 134 billion and employed 45,000 people around the world. For more information go to www.electroluxgroup.com.