Aquinas Consulting is hiring a Manager, Manufacturing Engineer located in Danbury, CT.  Together with your team, you will play a central role to:

• Optimally integrate new products in the supply chain (product industrialization)
• Create and optimize the supply chain processes (manufacturing excellence)
• Create and optimize the manufacturing infrastructures (manufacturing infrastructure)

What You'll Do

• Take full responsibility for product industrialization
• Lead with your team the product industrialization and ensure manufacturing capabilities on quality, time and cost to enable successful product launches
• Coordinate the industrialization of our products within the overall supply chain and in close alignment with Product Engineering
• Design and implement end-to-end manufacturing and assembly processes
• Releases manufacturing lines
• Optimize manufacturing processes to maximize efficiency and quality
• Develop and improve the physical and technical infrastructure required for the production, logistics, and configuration of products.
• Build up the team and implement the target picture
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and drive improvement projects to increase manufacturing quality, capacity, efficiency, and profitability
• Foster a productive, target-oriented collaboration within the team and its interfaces

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s Degree minimum, Master’s Degree preferred in Operations Management, Manufacturing Management, Industrial Engineering or the like.
• 15+ years relevant and incremental experience post Bachelors.
• Depth and breadth of work experience in high volume industrial manufacturing environments.
• Someone who can mature to possible senior leadership role with much larger teams in 3-5 years.
• Must be able to strategize with senior leadership as well as execute at tactical levels.
• Must be an outstanding communicator, adjusting their style of communication to the audience.
• Must be a decision maker, comfortable in drawing thoughtful conclusions on sometimes non-perfect data sets and evaluating and preparing for risk.
• Must be a teacher, lead, develop and unite the team

Please note: Applying to this role is an agreement to have your information entered into our database and acknowledgement that a recruiter will reach out to you either by phone, email, and/or text message regarding this and similar job opportunities.

Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community.  Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.