Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Threadlock Precision is hiring an enterprise-level Manufacturing & Process Engineering Leader to strengthen manufacturing and process engineering across its operating locations. The role supports CNC process development, continuous improvement, technical team development, and consistent engineering practices across the platform.
Responsibilities
- Partner with plant engineering, programming, operations, and production teams across Threadlock to strengthen manufacturing and process engineering capability
- Help establish consistent engineering practices, standards, and expectations across locations while allowing flexibility for plant-specific needs
- Support plant teams in developing and improving CNC manufacturing processes for new and existing work, including routings, setup strategies, tooling, machining methods, and production readiness
- Work with technical teams to address complex manufacturing challenges and help ensure the right resources, expertise, and support are brought together to resolve them
- Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across locations so successful processes, tooling strategies, programming approaches, and lessons learned can be leveraged throughout Threadlock
- Help capture and standardize critical manufacturing knowledge to reduce reliance on tribal knowledge and improve consistency across locations
- Partner with plant teams to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve throughput, repeatability, process stability, equipment utilization, and production flow
- Support efforts to reduce cycle time, setup time, scrap, rework, variation, and other non-value-added activity
- Help teams use production data, process observation, and employee input to identify constraints, understand root causes, and develop sustainable improvements
- Facilitate cross-functional problem solving for recurring manufacturing and process performance issues, partnering with Quality and other functions as needed
- Maintain visibility to key improvement initiatives and help ensure actions are implemented, measured, and sustained
- Support and develop manufacturing engineers, programmers, machinists, and other technical resources through coaching, collaboration, and shared problem solving
- Help plant teams build stronger capability in process development, continuous improvement, documentation, and technical problem solving
- Create alignment across locations by establishing clear priorities, ownership, and expectations for key engineering initiatives
- Build strong working relationships across Engineering, Operations, Quality, Programming, Production, Supply Chain, and plant leadership
- Serve as a connector across the organization, helping teams access the right expertise, resources, and support to move initiatives forward
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or another related engineering discipline
- 15 years of progressively responsible experience in CNC machining, programming, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or related precision manufacturing, including demonstrated technical leadership responsibility
- At least 10 years of manufacturing and process engineering experience within aerospace and defense manufacturing, including CNC machining, precision manufacturing, or the production of complex engineered components
- Experience with CNC manufacturing processes, including milling, turning, and/or multi-axis machining, as well as tooling, fixturing, setups, process optimization, programming, and manufacturing documentation
- Experience supporting manufacturing or engineering activities across multiple facilities
- Experience leading or developing technical teams
- Experience with CAM software such as Mastercam, NX, PartMaker, FeatureCAM, or similar platforms
- Strong leadership, influencing, and change management skills with the ability to challenge existing practices, build alignment across locations, gain buy-in, and help teams adopt new processes, standards, technologies, and ways of working without relying on direct reporting relationships
- Strong Lean and continuous improvement capability with experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, value stream mapping, root cause analysis, and other structured problem-solving methods in manufacturing environments
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, explain technical issues clearly, align teams, and help drive solutions from concept through implementation
- Hands-on problem solver who can assess complex manufacturing challenges, identify root causes, evaluate alternatives, and help teams implement practical, sustainable solutions
- Enterprise mindset with the ability to balance standardization and best practices across multiple locations while recognizing the unique capabilities and operating needs of each plant
- Data-driven decision-making skills with the ability to use operational metrics, process data, cost information, and ROI to prioritize improvements and support investment decisions
- Strong coaching, development, and project leadership skills with the ability to strengthen technical capability, lead complex initiatives from planning through implementation, and drive measurable, sustained results
- Strong business and customer orientation with the ability to connect manufacturing and engineering decisions to customer requirements, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and long-term business needs
- Self-directed and highly accountable with the ability to establish priorities, manage multiple initiatives across locations, and drive work forward with limited day-to-day direction
- Candidates must be a “U.S. Person” as defined by applicable law (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or asylee/refugee)
- Experience within aerospace and defense or another highly regulated manufacturing environment
- Experience working within an AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality management system
- Experience with Lean manufacturing, structured problem solving, root cause analysis, corrective action, and continuous improvement
- Experience with new product introduction, capital equipment, automation, or capacity expansion
Benefits
- Bonus
- 401(k) plan with generous company match
- Competitive health and dental insurance
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Remote work with approximately 50–60% travel to business and operating locations
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