Sr. Director, Manufacturing Engineering NA

Job Description

At Electrolux Group our vision is to be the home appliance industry leader in consumer satisfaction by delivering outstanding lifetime experiences with solutions that always get better. We share ideas and collaborate so that together we can develop solutions that deliver more enjoyable and sustainable living.

Come join us as you are. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and more our global community of people from 100 countries we listen to each other actively contribute and grow together.

Join us in our exciting quest to build the future home!

About the role:

The Senior Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering North America (IME NA) is accountable for defining and executing the regional manufacturing engineering strategy across the full production-system lifecyclefrom product and process concept through equipment selection industrialization commissioning ramp-up and sustained performance. This leader will integrate lean principles automation artificial intelligence advanced analytics digital manufacturing maintenance excellence and material-flow design to create safe flexible scalable and cost-competitive operations. The role owns the regional technical roadmap and ensures manufacturing systems are designed to deliver planned OEE throughput quality labor productivity maintainability sustainability and total cost objectives.

Reporting to the COO the Senior Director of IME NA will partner with factories product lines R&D Quality Supply Chain Finance IT/OT Procurement and other operational teams to improve regional performance enable strategic capacity and footprint decisions and accelerate the deployment of standardized manufacturing technologies and ways of working.

Where youll be: Position can be located in Springfield TN OR Charlotte NC.

What youll do:

• Own the North America Manufacturing Engineering strategy operating model technical standards governance and capability roadmap across all manufacturing sites.
• Lead product industrialization including DFM/DFMA process architecture manufacturing concepts and new product launch readiness.
• Direct production system line cell and facility design to optimize safety quality capacity productivity flexibility and cost.
• Establish and validate manufacturing performance targets including OEE throughput yield labor productivity reliability and energy consumption.
• Lead equipment tooling automation and supplier selection through standardized specifications capability assessments cybersecurity requirements and total cost of ownership analysis.
• Develop and execute the smart manufacturing roadmap including MES SCADA IIoT robotics machine vision digital work instructions production traceability and AI-enabled manufacturing solutions.
• Drive operational excellence through material flow optimization intralogistics constraint management capacity planning reliability engineering and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Own regional manufacturing capital investment planning and execution including business cases investment requests project governance commissioning and benefits realization.
• Lead capacity footprint and network optimization initiatives including make-versus-buy decisions line transfers consolidations and facility expansions.
• Establish manufacturing technology OT/IT data connectivity maintenance and cybersecurity standards in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Embed sustainability energy efficiency and resource optimization into manufacturing system design and operations.
• Build and develop a high-performing regional engineering organization while ensuring consistent implementation of approved standards processes and ways of working across North America facilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or related technical discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12 years of manufacturing engineering automation industrial engineering or related experience including 5 years leading regional or multi-site operations.
• Proven leadership of large technical teams and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated success delivering industrialization automation digital manufacturing and capital project initiatives.
• High-volume manufacturing experience and responsibility for major capital portfolios preferred.

Knowledges Skills and Abilities:

• Expertise in manufacturing system design industrial engineering lean operations automation and capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of Industry 4.0 technologies including AI analytics IIoT MES/SCADA robotics and digital manufacturing.
• Proven success driving productivity reliability cost and operational performance improvements across multiple sites.
• Strategic leader with strong financial acumen change management experience and a track record of developing high-performing teams and scalable solutions.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Ability to balance strategic transformation with day-to-day operational demands and move seamlessly between executive leadership and technical problem-solving
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly across the North America manufacturing network and to supplier or technology-partner locations as required.

Benefits highlights:

Flexible work hours/hybrid work environment.

Discounts on our award-winning Electrolux products and services.

Family-friendly benefits; Insurance policy plan and 401k.

Extensive learning opportunities and flexible career path.

As part of Electrolux we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you.

Come join us as you are.

Find more on: Electrolux Group North America: Group Careers: Home Products Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation disability or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability it is available upon request through The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Please be advised that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position at this time.

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