Takt-Driven Manufacturing Efficiency Lead

Munters Corporation (MUS); Daleville (VA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Munters Corporation seeks a Manufacturing Efficiency Manager to lead the engineering team, optimize production systems, and ensure safe, cost-efficient output that meets demand. The role interfaces with Operations, R&D, Design, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, Safety, Test, and Finance to align people, materials, tooling, and processes before takt begins.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in manufacturing/engineering, strong Lean Six Sigma Black Belt expertise, and experience in automation and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, Operations, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in manufacturing, engineering, operations, or continuous improvement.
• 3+ years leading technical teams.
• Lean, line design, productivity, capacity, financial analysis, and cross functional leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Protect takt by setting demand-based requirements, validating cycle time and staffing for every phase, maintaining capacity models, identifying constraints early, and establishing leading indicators, escalation, and recovery plans.
• Lead Manufacturing Engineers as assigned manufacturing system owners for product, line, process, labor, layout, standard work, readiness, waste, capacity, and improvement projects.
• Implement and govern the approved product playbook. Strict adherence is mandatory; Production may not unilaterally change the defined resource allocation, process sequence, standard work, takt logic, quality controls, testing method, or approved build method.
• Enforce a production readiness gate covering engineering release, BOM and materials, wire data and harnesses, tested panels, piping jigs, subassemblies, tools, software, test equipment, staffing, standard work, layout, and takt validation. Every red condition requires an owner, countermeasure, and due date.
• Drive parallel manufacturing with a target of completing 70 to 80 percent of practical work offline through subassemblies, kits, harnesses, panels, piping modules, and tested assemblies before final build.
• Design efficient manufacturing systems including process flow, layout, work balance, takt, cycle time, manhours, staffing, tooling, material presentation, unit start and finish dates, bottleneck analysis, capacity, and risk controls.
• Participate early in New Product Introduction and apply design for manufacturing, assembly, testing, automation, and serviceability before production release.
• Lead elimination of the Seven Wastes using one piece flow, standard work, line balancing, SMED, kanban, JIT, 5S, visual management, DMAIC, root cause analysis, error proofing, and automation.
• Develop capital and automation business cases using investment cost, engineering cost, labor savings, capacity and revenue exposure, quality improvement, risk reduction, ROI, and payback.
• Convert daily production abnormalities into permanent countermeasures by separating execution issues from process design issues and assigning action to the correct functional owner.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Leadership

Manufacturing systems design

Cross-functional leadership

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Automation equipment

Job description

Munters Corporation seeks a Manufacturing Efficiency Manager to lead the engineering team, optimize production systems, and ensure safe, cost-efficient output that meets demand. The role interfaces with Operations, R&D, Design, Quality, Supply Chain, Planning, Safety, Test, and Finance to align people, materials, tooling, and processes before takt begins.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in manufacturing/engineering, strong Lean Six Sigma Black Belt expertise, and experience in automation and