Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Position Summary

As an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer V, you will lead large-scale engineering programs and define manufacturing strategies focused on recapitalization, capital investment planning, and operational capability across the Americas.

This role operates at a highly strategic level, requiring deep expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence senior leadership. You will lead complex, high-risk projects and programs while setting direction for engineering execution and long-term manufacturing capability.

The role is centered on enterprise-level manufacturing engineering including capital strategy, process innovation, system integration, and performance optimization. You will play a key role in shaping engineering standards, guiding investment decisions, and driving alignment across multiple sites and functions.

You will partner closely with senior leadership, plant leadership, and cross-functional teams to ensure engineering strategies align with business objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Program & Strategic Leadership

  • Leads large, complex recapitalization programs and capital initiatives with significant scope, risk, and business impact
  • Defines project strategies, execution approaches, and resource allocation
  • Aligns engineering initiatives with division-level objectives and long-term business goals

  Manufacturing Engineering Strategy

  • Establishes direction for manufacturing systems, equipment standards, and process capabilities
  • Anticipates business, technology, and operational changes and drives proactive improvements
  • Develops innovative engineering solutions to address complex and evolving challenges

  Enterprise Problem Solving & Innovation

  • Solves unique, complex problems with broad organizational impact using conceptual and innovative thinking
  • Leads development of new processes, technologies, or engineering practices
  • Drives continuous advancement of manufacturing capabilities

  Executive Influence & Decision Making

  • Communicates complex concepts and influences senior leaders and executives to drive alignment and decisions
  • Makes authoritative recommendations that significantly impact business performance
  • Balances competing priorities and sets direction across programs and initiatives

  Technical Leadership & Expertise

  • Serves as a recognized subject matter expert within the organization
  • Provides technical leadership, consultation, and guidance to engineering teams and leadership
  • Leads and mentors engineers across multiple levels

  Standards & Organizational Impact

  • Drives development and standardization of engineering processes, tools, and best practices
  • Ensures alignment of manufacturing engineering practices across sites and regions
  • Influences long-term capability development and continuous improvement

• Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented problems.
• Makes decisions and recommendations that are authoritative and have an important impact on extensive organizational activities.
• Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests.
• Works on programs with complex features.
• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives by setting the direction and allocating resources; works within division objectives.
• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions
• Anticipates business, vendor and/or regulatory changes; recommends product, process or service improvements
• Communicates complex concepts, anticipates potential objections and persuades senior executives, to adopt a different point of view

Keys to Success

• Keeps self-control in hard situations.
• Strong Communication skills
• Problem Solving and decision making.
• Costumer focus (internal and external)
• Negotiation skills
• Creativity, proactivity, and teamwork.
• Problem Solving process.
• Exceptional attention to   internal and external customer requests
• Negotiation skills

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None
• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution.
• Provides technical leadership and consultation to management and peers

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 11–15 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, or related environment
• Deep expertise in manufacturing engineering, capital projects, and process/system design
• Proven ability to lead complex, high-impact programs and influence organizational direction
• Strong business acumen and ability to align engineering with strategic objectives
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, including executive-level interactions
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in area of specialization