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We're seeking a Senior Plastics Manufacturing Engineer to serve as a technical leader in developing, validating, and optimizing manufacturing processes. This role plays a key role in leading and advancing structured engineering systems, improving process performance, and ensuring consistent, scalable results across operations.

You'll lead complex process development initiatives, drive high-impact projects, and help define best practices in process validation, control, and continuous improvement-while mentoring engineers and supporting production performance.

This role operates within a structured engineering system focused on formal process validation, defined control limits, and data-driven execution to deliver consistent, repeatable performance. It is heavily focused on injection molding and requires the ability to develop, validate, and stabilize processes in a dynamic production environment.

What You'll Do

Engineering Systems & Process Standardization

• Define, implement, and continuously improve structured engineering systems for process development, validation, and control
• Establish standard methodologies for process window development, documentation, and data-driven decision making
• Ensure consistent application of engineering practices across programs and teams

Process Development & Validation

• Lead complex process development, mold validation, and troubleshooting activities
• Develop robust, data-driven process windows that ensure repeatability and stability
• Align validation outcomes with production-ready process definitions
• Lead structured validation activities to define process windows and ensure processes are capable across expected operating ranges
• Apply scientific molding principles to establish and validate process windows

Process Stability & Problem Solving

• Provide technical leadership in resolving complex molding issues, including process instability, variation, and production disruptions
• Apply structured, data-driven root cause analysis to improve quality, yield, and efficiency
• Ensure processes operate within validated process windows and defined control limits to maintain stability, repeatability, and consistency across production.
• Work within defined process control frameworks rather than relying on trial-and-error adjustments, using structured methods to diagnose and correct process variation

Project Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Lead cross-functional engineering projects (e.g., scrap reduction, cycle time improvements, capability expansion)
• Support capital equipment decisions, tooling strategy, and manufacturing investments
• Drive continuous improvement efforts and ensure solutions are sustained and standardized
• Provide technical input during quoting and new program planning to define process capability, approach, and risk

Mentorship & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Mentor and develop engineers, reinforcing strong engineering discipline and execution
• Partner with Production, Tooling, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure process capability and alignment
• Provide hands-on technical support during critical launches, trials, and production disruptions, stepping in to stabilize processes and restore performance when needed

What You Bring

• 7+ years of manufacturing or process engineering experience
• Strong expertise in process development, validation, and troubleshooting
• Proven ability to lead projects and influence cross-functional teams
• Analytical, data-driven mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
• Experience mentoring or developing technical talent

Preferred: Experience in plastics or injection molding is strongly preferred. However, candidates with related manufacturing backgrounds-such as machining, castings, or other complex process environments-are strongly encouraged to apply.