Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Armor

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TOGETHER, WE SAVE LIVES: Job Summary: Lead the manufacturing engineering team that builds life-saving ballistic armor. You’ll own daily operational support, scale new/legacy product lines, drive automation, and run a structured Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) that lifts throughput, yield, safety, and cost. Responsibilities: - Build and lead a team of manufacturing, process, and automation engineers supporting operations. - Identify, evaluate, and justify capital expenditure (CapEx) projects by developing data-driven business cases - Work with the New Product Development group to ensure Tollgate Zero and NPI guidelines are followed, from inception to mass production. - Develop and validate manufacturing processes, tooling, and equipment for new products to consider DFM best practices. - Create and manage process documentation including work instructions, PFMEAs, control plans, and SOPs. - Build and maintain a prioritized CIP portfolio tied to plant KPIs (OEE, FPY, CT, COQ, safety). - Execute Lean/Six Sigma projects. - Identify automation opportunities (robotics/cobots, vision systems, PLC/HMI, AMRs, in-process inspection, data capture). - Lead vendor selection, URS/FDS, FAT/SAT...