Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Milwaukee Tool; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Milwaukee Tool seeks a Sr Manufacturing Engineer on 1st shift to lead manufactur­ing initiatives, deploy build requirements, and drive continuous improvement across operations. You will coordinate with IT, supply planning, marketing, and finance to optimize processes, reduce costs, and improve customer outcomes.

The role emphasizes ownership, problem solving, and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or related field; 2+ years manufacturing experience OR Bachelor's with 5+ years experience
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle preferred) and cross-functional project leadership
• Knowledge of problem-solving, process development, and change management methods/tools
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent project teams and timelines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for management presentations
• Proficiency in Visio for process flow documentation

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing engineering initiatives, set direction, and drive cross-functional decisions with minimal oversight
• Develop and deploy production build requirements, pallet displays, operating instructions, and prototype builds
• Conduct Kaizen and process-improvement activities to reduce waste and cycle times
• Analyze data and perform SPC to identify improvements and present business cases to stakeholders
• Collaborate with IT, supply planning, marketing, finance, and sales to implement changes and manage risk

Skills

Manufacturing Engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Kaizen

Statistical process control

ERP (Oracle)

Project management

Lean Six Sigma

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Master’s degree preferred in related field

Tools

Oracle

Visio

CAD (Unigraphics/SolidWorks/NX/AutoCad)

Power BI

Minitab

Job description

Job Description:

Sr Manufacturing Engineer 1st shift Monday- Friday 7:00 AM-4:00 PM

At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success.

We are an inclusive workplace that encourages diversity of thought, experience, and background to solve complex problems as one team. Every employee is encouraged to continuously improve and grow, and it is a top priority for managers to develop their teams, making a wide range of internal development opportunities available to all employees.

We are One Team, overcoming obstacles together and celebrating together. Come be part of a winning team that feels like family.

Your Role on Our Team:

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer serves as a technical and operational leader responsible for setting direction and driving the development and deployment of production build requirements, pallet display designs, operating instructions, and prototype builds for special-execution programs within Kitting and Manufacturing. This role leads the organization toward a culture of waste elimination by identifying opportunities, establishing improvement priorities, and mobilizing cross-functional teams to achieve an optimal future state, enhance the customer experience, reduce cost, and streamline operations. The Senior Manufacturing Engineer independently leads multiple moderate-to-highly complex and under-defined initiatives, makes sound technical and business decisions with minimal oversight, and remains accountable for sustainable results.

This position is a key leadership role within a cross-functional team operating in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will provide big-picture vision, translate business needs into clear technical priorities, and lead problem solving, process improvement, and change-management efforts across operations, IT, supply planning, marketing, finance, and sales. The Senior Manufacturing Engineer is expected to build alignment, coach and develop engineering and operational partners, challenge existing practices constructively, and influence teams across departments and locations to make decisions and deliver results with minimal direction. Unlike an Engineer II, who typically executes defined work within an established scope, this role defines the path forward for ambiguous assignments, establishes standards, anticipates and mitigates risk, and is accountable for broader team and business outcomes.

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Job Duties

• Serve as a technical and operational leader for the manufacturing engineering function. Set direction, demonstrate ownership, lead through influence, mentor and coach less-experienced engineers, align cross-functional stakeholders, and drive decisions through implementation with minimal oversight.
• Independently defines the path forward for complex or ambiguous work, anticipates business and operational risks, establishes technical standards, delegates and coordinates work as appropriate, and is accountable for team-level outcomes

• Work cross-functionally with channel, packaging engineering, customer supply chain, Ops Supply chain, and operations teams to ensure the design of pallet display meets customer requirements, distribution dimension requirements and Operations capabilities. The individual will leverage Tops Load Max Pro software to display the displays.
• Lead projects by working with cross functional resources to develop and implement new manufacturing processes and automated solutions.
• Manage the Oracle item structure (Bill of materials) set up and all changes in the Oracle system. Additionally coordinating with supply planning teams for changes with transition builds.
• Execute all the training & protype builds with operations leads and sign off process
• Create design and update operational method sheets (OMS) and related documentation and ensure they are current, accurate, and understood by the team.
• Manage the creation of Oracle work definition which includes defining the operations, resource, rates and integration with the item structure into the operations
• Drive improvements projects with Operations team to reduce cycle time in the manufacturing process contributing to the operational excellence. Implement all the rate improvements into the Oracle work definition
• Support production operations through troubleshooting problems
• Conduct statistical process control to define problems and present quick, applicable solutions to key stakeholders to implement change. Analyze information and data to determine a business case for manufacturing operations.
• Collaborate with integrators to develop solutions for manufacturing processes.
• Complete assigned operations projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Track project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines.
• Consistently visualize entire scope of a project with minimal guidance.
• Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans
• Participate in Kaizen and project engineering activities within the facility.

Master’s or equivalent degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related engineering field, and 2 years of relevant manufacturing processes experience as an Engineer or related; OR Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related engineering field, and 5 years of relevant manufacturing processes experience as an Engineer or related. Experience must include:

• Understanding of ERP
• Previous facilitator/coaching exposure/project participation where problem solving, process development and/or behavior change methods and tools have been used
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent project teams with time constraints
• Must have oral and written communications skills for presentations to all levels management
• Visio or similar application for process flow documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Tops Load Max Pro
• Lean Six Sigma Training
• Proficiency in project management tools or project management certification

• Oracle software
• Computer aided design (Unigraphics, SolidWorks, NX, or AutoCad).
• Managing multiple continuous improvement projects in a manufacturing setting.
• Lean principles (Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen).
• Data Analysis (Minitab, Pareto, Control charts, Microsoft Project, PowerBI, PowerPivot, or VBA).

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.