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Co-lead your department alongside a veteran team in a stable, innovation-driven culture offering true engineering autonomy, robust benefits, and rare manufacturing flexibility (45-hour weeks and customizable starts).\n\nStrategic Operational Alliance: Co-lead your department with an experienced Engineering Manager and a top-tier Production Manager within a highly collaborative, team-oriented culture.\n\nUnrivaled Flexibility: Achieve true professional harmony with a flexible morning arrival (6:00–8:00 AM), an average 45-hour week, and minimal weekend obligations—a rarity in production environments.\n\nDriven by Improvement: Join a secure organization dedicated to process innovation, where you will have the autonomy to spearhead meaningful engineering upgrades.\n\nSecurity & Comprehensive Rewards: Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with a tenured executive team and an extensive benefits package tailored for long-term family support.\n\nManufacturer is seeking a Lead Process Engineer to work in their engineering team. The Lead Process Engineer will be responsible for overseeing an assigned area related to best practices, KPI improvements, plan execution and new technology industrialization. Daily you will report to an Engineering Leader. Responsibilities will include:\n\nCollaborate Globally: Partner with sister sites to support top manufacturing initiatives and share best practices.\nTrack KPIs: Oversee, analyze, and drive production numbers and key performance indicators.\n**Drive CI Projects: **Spearhead continuous improvement by managing budgets, timelines, group CI, and 2–6 individual CI projects at any given time.\nAnalyze Capacity: Perform biannual capability and capacity analyses for your designated area.\nTroubleshoot & Support: Spend up to 50% of your time on the manufacturing floor focused on engineering tasks and daily mechanical troubleshooting of equipment/processes.\nPrepare for New Models: Assist the new model engineering team with startup preparation, tooling readiness, and line modifications.\n**Optimize Layouts & CAD: **Improve line layouts and utilize 2D/3D software to conceptualize and design specialized fixtures and gauges.\nTrain & Educate: Educate associates on standard production, quality, and engineering procedures.\nSolve Quality Issues: Bridge the gap between operations and quality to determine root causes and implement effective countermeasures.\nFlexible Support: Complete additional engineering assignments as required.\n\nThis is a hands-on position that requires qualified candidates to be on the manufacturing floor up to 50% of their day. Candidates should be able to manage their own projects while offering guidance to junior engineers, be flexible with their work requirements, and have good written and verbal communication. Individuals should have excellent floor communication skills and be able to effectively communicate with executives, peers and frontline associates.\n\nMedical benefits are available the first of the month after 30 days of employment. Holidays, vacation, relocation assistance, 401K and annual bonus!\n\nREQUIREMENTS for the Lead Process Engineer:\n\n1. Bachelor's degree; preferred majors include mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technologies, industrial technologies or manufacturing technologies\n\n2. At least five years of similar manufacturing engineering experience\n\n3. A general understanding of process controls, ideally PFMEA\n\n4. Experience focused on continuous improvement initiatives, including scrap reduction, efficiency improvement, elimination of downtime, etc.\n\n5. Project management skills, including overseeing timelines and budgets\n\nBasic 2D and 3D modeling Mechanical aptitude\n\n8. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel\n\nSkills preferred but NOT required:\n\n1. Automotive manufacturing work experience\n\n2. Capital equipment projects\n\n3. Exposure to Lean and/or Six Sigma methodologies\n\n4. New model launch\n\nStrong data analysis skills Tooling Power BI Supervision of others\n\nWhy work for this organization:\n\nNew capital equipment projects have been completed at the plant\n\nDiverse business mix (Honda, Toyota, Ford and other OEMs)\n\nSupply truck, car, van and EV markets\n\nCompetitive benefits package and bonus structure\n\nOpportunity for advancement at the plant or corporate level *(you don't have to relocate to promote into corporate positions) * Good work/life balance, with minimal Saturdays (when you do work a Saturday, you will get a comp day!)\n\nCandidates are preferred to be local to the Bellefontaine, Ohio area. 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