Staff Manufacturing Engineer - Global Growth & Expansion

The Judge Group; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Job summary

GTI Fabrication, a rapidly growing manufacturer, is seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer for the Global Strategic Growth team in Buffalo, NY. The role leads technical due diligence and capacity expansion initiatives across a global network, partnering with production planning, operations, and engineering to shape scalable manufacturing strategies.

The successful candidate will evaluate facilities and partners, develop investment plans, and guide risk mitigation while ensuring readiness for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Extensive manufacturing engineering experience supporting production operations, facility development, capacity expansion, or strategic manufacturing initiatives.
• Experience conducting technical due diligence, manufacturing assessments, facility evaluations, or acquisition support activities.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, facility operations, quality systems, production planning, and operational excellence methodologies.
• Experience with capacity planning, process development, facility layout, equipment selection, and manufacturing system implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing technical due diligence activities for prospective facilities, strategic partners, joint ventures, and acquisition targets.
• Define assessment methodologies, evaluation criteria, site visit plans, and validation requirements.
• Translate customer, product, regulatory, and business requirements into manufacturing process, equipment, facility, tooling, labor, testing, and quality requirements.
• Evaluate production capacity through analysis of cycle times, takt times, OEE, equipment uptime, staffing models, changeovers, constraints, yields, and material flow.
• Assess manufacturing capabilities across fabrication, welding, coating, assembly, testing, packaging, and integration processes.
• Review facility readiness including layouts, utilities, material handling systems, maintenance programs, warehouse operations, quality systems, EHS compliance, and manufacturing technologies.
• Identify gaps relative to company standards and quantify associated risks related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, compliance, and business continuity.
• Develop current-state and future-state process flows, conceptual facility layouts, equipment requirements, staffing plans, and implementation strategies.
• Estimate capital expenditures, operating costs, launch expenses, staffing requirements, and project schedules required to achieve operational readiness.
• Support site selection, make-versus-buy decisions, capacity allocation strategies, partnership evaluations, and acquisition assessments.
• Develop technical risk registers, mitigation plans, gap closure strategies, and executive-level recommendations.
• Support equipment specification development, supplier reviews, installation planning, commissioning activities, process validation, and production readiness efforts.
• Coordinate manufacturing handoffs and ensure successful transitions into long-term operational ownership.
• Develop and refine due diligence standards, assessment tools, best practices, benchmarks, and lessons learned.
• Mentor engineering team members and provide technical leadership on complex manufacturing and facility development initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical due diligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Industrial/Mechanical/Operations Engineering

Job description

GTI Fabrication, a rapidly growing manufacturer, is seeking a Staff Manufacturing Engineer for the Global Strategic Growth team in Buffalo, NY. The role leads technical due diligence and capacity expansion initiatives across a global network, partnering with production planning, operations, and engineering to shape scalable manufacturing strategies.

The successful candidate will evaluate facilities and partners, develop investment plans, and guide risk mitigation while ensuring readiness for