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Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Milwaukee, WI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Position Summary:
Looking for a Mid to Senior level Manufacturing Engineer with 7 years of manufacturing experience to lead labor and process optimization plant layout and continuous improvement initiatives in a complex engineered manufacturing environment.
This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who thrives on the production floor can influence teams across departments and has a proven record of improving throughput reducing costs and building scalable manufacturing processes.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Looking for a Mid to Senior level Manufacturing Engineer with 7 years of manufacturing experience to lead labor and process optimization plant layout and continuous improvement initiatives in a complex engineered manufacturing environment.
This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who thrives on the production floor can influence teams across departments and has a proven record of improving throughput reducing costs and building scalable manufacturing processes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead plant-wide continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity quality safety and cost reduction.
- Analyze and optimize workflows across fabrication welding assembly and shipping operations.
- Develop labor standards capacity models staffing and production metrics to support growth.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement sustainable process improvements that increase throughput and on-time delivery.
- Design and improve plant layouts material flow systems workstation ergonomics and factory organization.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions related to downtime scrap rework and inefficiencies.
- Create and maintain SOPs standard work and best practices across departments.
- Evaluate capital equipment investments automation opportunities and ROI-driven manufacturing improvements.
- Partner closely with Production Quality Safety Supply Chain and Engineering leaders to execute operational priorities.
- Mentor junior engineers and help elevate continuous improvement culture across the facility.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Manufacturing Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
- 515 years of Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering experience in a production environment.
- Strong background in metal fabrication welding heavy manufacturing job shop or engineered-to-order environments preferred.
- Proven success implementing Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 5S value stream mapping and process improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into actionable operational improvements.
- Comfortable leading projects and influencing teams without direct authority.
- ERP/MRP experience required; CAD experience preferred.
- Six Sigma certification or equivalent CI training is a plus.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
CORE provides engineering on demand. CORE is the leading engineering, recruitment and staffing agency in the Greater Milwaukee Area.
