Director, Manufacturing Engineering

Reports to: Senior Vice President Operations and Transformation

Scope: 8 U.S. Manufacturing Facilities

The Director of Manufacturing Engineering provides enterprise leadership for manufacturing process excellence automation and asset reliability across Overhead Door Corporations U.S. manufacturing footprint. This role is responsible for developing and executing a unified manufacturing engineering and maintenance strategy that enables world-class productivity equipment uptime and technological advancement. The leader will integrate engineering maintenance and facilities functions under a single vision driving automation digitalization and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) within the OHD Lean Operating System. This position blends strategic system design with hands-on execution ensuring that process capability reliability and cost effectiveness improve year over year across all sites.

Manufacturing Engineering Leadership

• Lead the enterprise Manufacturing Engineering strategy to improve process capability throughput and cost efficiency.
• Define and deploy standard manufacturing methods best practices and process documentation across all plants.
• Partner with Operations and Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability and scalability of new products.
• Oversee major capital investments layout optimization and capacity planning initiatives.

Automation Digitalization & Smart Factory

• Develop and implement the corporate automation roadmap to drive productivity consistency and labor efficiency.
• Lead digital transformation through implementation of smart manufacturing systems MES and IoT technologies.
• Integrate equipment monitoring predictive analytics and real-time performance dashboards.
• Evaluate and deploy robotics vision systems and advanced automation to improve safety and reduce waste.

Maintenance & Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

• Own enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy driving TPM deployment and asset lifecycle management.
• Establish preventive and predictive maintenance programs focused on reducing unplanned downtime and maintenance cost.
• Standardize maintenance planning CMMS utilization and spare parts management across plants.
• Drive MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) improvements year-over-year.

Facilities & Capital Planning

• Oversee facilities management including infrastructure maintenance utilities and energy optimization.
• Ensure all facility projects meet regulatory environmental and safety standards.
• Lead annual capital planning process and long-term asset renewal strategy.
• Drive energy efficiency and sustainability improvements in partnership with EHS & Sustainability leadership.

Technical Capability & Continuous Improvement

• Build an enterprise-level technical capability roadmap for engineers technicians and maintenance professionals.
• Lead advanced problem-solving using Six Sigma root cause analysis and reliability-centered maintenance techniques.
• Integrate engineering and maintenance metrics into site performance dashboards and executive reviews.
• Partner with Lean and Quality to ensure process discipline and adherence to standard work.

Leadership Expectations

• Operates as a strategic transformation leader driving technology and reliability improvements across all sites.
• Fosters a culture of technical excellence ownership and continuous improvement among engineering and maintenance teams.
• Balances strategic capital planning with hands-on operational problem solving.
• Influences through data collaboration and disciplined execution not escalation.
• Serves as the corporate champion for automation TPM and digital manufacturing innovation.

• Bachelors degree in mechanical Industrial Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering (masters preferred).
• 10 years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering maintenance or operations leadership.
• Demonstrated success implementing automation and TPM in multi-site manufacturing environments.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams through large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing reliability engineering and digital factory technologies (MES IoT robotics).
• Strong leadership communication and project management skills.
• Experience in building products industrial equipment or discrete manufacturing preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing sites.
• Position Impact
• This role is foundational in shaping the future of manufacturing for Overhead Door Corporation combining engineering excellence automation and reliability into a single cohesive system. Success will be measured by improved equipment performance reduced downtime capital efficiency and the advancement of digital manufacturing maturity across all plants.