Manufacturing Engineer - Manufacturing - Base Salary to 105k/year - Ashland City, TN

• Our client is a global manufacturer, with 12,000 employees and operations across seven countries, produces residential and commercial water heaters, boilers, and water treatment products. As a stable category leader, the company fosters a culture of continuous improvement, emphasizing Lean and Six Sigma principles along with a strong commitment to safety and ergonomics.
• In this Manufacturing Engineer role, the focus is on driving process improvements, managing capital projects, and applying design-for-manufacturability (DFM) strategies to enhance throughput, quality, and cost efficiency within a high-volume industrial plant.
  

Responsibilities:

• Apply ergonomic and safety standards across processes, equipment, and facilities
  
• Develop, evaluate, and improve manufacturing methods using data and analysis
  
• Assess new technologies/processes to lift efficiency, productivity, quality, and cost
  
• Build capital justifications for tooling, equipment, and savings initiatives
  
• Analyze labor/space/flow; design equipment and workspace layouts for max efficiency
  
• Serve on Product Development System (PDS) teams to ensure DFM, tooling, and equipment readiness for launches
  
• Partner with vendors on specifications; source equipment/materials; evaluate to quality standards
  
• Estimate cycle times, staffing, and costs to inform management decisions
  
• Collaborate with management/engineering on capacity, schedules, and constraints
  
• Implement Lean tools: continuous improvement, kaizen/blitzes, Kanban, line balancing, TPM, takt time
  
• Team with maintenance on troubleshooting, installations, and equipment setup

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering or related field
  
• 5+ years’ related manufacturing engineering experience
  
• Hands-on with Six Sigma, Lean, and continuous-improvement methodologies
  
• Strong technical communication: reports, procedures, presentations to cross-functional groups
  
• Proficient in applied math and statistics (probability, statistical inference, geometry/trig; fractions/percentages/ratios)
  
• Demonstrated problem solving: define issues, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions
  
• Ability to read/analyze technical procedures, standards, and regulations

Compensation:

• Base salary to 105k/year
  
• Relocation Assistance available
  
• Comprehensive benefits: medical & dental insurance, company-paid life insurance, 401k retirement savings plan, short- & long-term disability, tuition assistance

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