System Engineering Manager Jobs in Fishers, IN (NOW HIRING)

We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Engineering - Manager to join our Manufacturing team in Plainfield, IN.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways: 

• Build Effective Teams: Create a strong team identity by leveraging diverse skills and perspectives, ensuring everyone is aligned around shared goals and empowered to contribute meaningfully.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Develop productive partnerships with crossfunctional stakeholders, working collaboratively to remove barriers, streamline processes, and achieve shared business outcomes.
• Communicate with Clarity: Deliver clear, audiencespecific communication across multiple channels, ensuring alignment, transparency, and understanding at every level of the organization.
• Cultivate Innovation: Introduce new ideas, tools, and process improvements that enhance efficiency, strengthen operational performance, and support longterm organizational success.
• Develop Talent: Coach and mentor team members to help them grow their capabilities, advance their career goals, and contribute more effectively to the organization's objectives.
• Drive Results: Maintain a strong focus on execution, consistently delivering highquality outcomes even in challenging or fastchanging environments.
• Champion Health & Safety: Model proactive safety behaviors, identify risks, and support actions that build an interdependent, injuryfree workplace culture.
• Manage Complexity & Align Work: Navigate complex information, balance stakeholder needs, and prioritize work effectively to ensure plans, resources, and actions align with organizational goals.

• 7-10 years of plant manufacturing experience, with demonstrated leadership in a highvolume or complex production environment.
• Site Manufacturing Engineering leadership experience, providing daily technical direction across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacityexpansion operations.
• Proven ability to lead endtoend capital projects, including scope development, business case creation, vendor management, execution oversight, and safe, ontime startup.
• Strong crossfunctional engineering support capability for major initiatives such as automation deployment, line reconfiguration, equipment moves, and new process introductions.
• Demonstrated success driving capacity, throughput, and productivity improvements through process optimization, equipment upgrades, and standard work implementation.
• Expertise in HSEfocused engineering, including machine safety, ergonomics, dust/emission controls, PIV engineering controls, and closure of risk assessments with engineered solutions.
• Technical leadership in automation and advanced manufacturing, including technology evaluation, OEE improvement, and stabilization of automated systems postlaunch.
• Effective crossfunctional interface skills, ensuring alignment with enterprise stakeholders on priorities, timelines, risks, and execution plans.
• Experience building and developing highperforming engineering teams, including workload prioritization, coaching, capability development, and succession planning.
• Strong execution discipline, maintaining cadence, visibility, and accountability through structured project reviews, risk escalation, and performance reporting.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Deep Manufacturing Expertise: Leverage 7-10 years of plant manufacturing experience to lead engineering strategy, guide technical decisions, and support complex operations across refurb, delining, drivetrain, automation, and capacity expansion workstreams.
• Strong Capital Project Leadership: Drive endtoend ownership of capital projects-defining scope, building business cases, engaging vendors, and ensuring safe, ontime, onbudget execution with reliable startup and performance outcomes.
• CrossFunctional Partnership & Influence: Collaborate closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, HSE, and Planning to lead major site transitions, deploy automation, reconfigure lines, relocate equipment, and introduce new processes while balancing stakeholder needs.
• Technical & SafetyDriven Continuous Improvement: Apply advanced manufacturing, automation, and processoptimization skills to improve capacity, throughput, and productivity while ensuring engineering ownership of HSE risk reduction, machine safety, ergonomics, emissions control, and OEE stabilization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or related field, or equivalent experience required.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Significant level of relevant work experience, including supervisory and leadership experience, required.