Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Posted:
1/9/2026, 12:44:49 AM

Location(s):
Noventa di Piave, Veneto, Italy ⋅ Veneto, Italy

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics

Job Description Summary

Leads engineering teams to optimize production processes, improve efficiency, propose budgets for production, implement new technologies.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership:  manage manufacturing engineers and technicians.
  • Process Optimization: Drive continuous improvement, Lean/Operational Excellence, and implement new manufacturing technologies.
  • New Product Introduction (NPI): Collaborate with design/operations to ensure manufacturability and smooth production ramp-up.
  • Production equipment: Manage equipment selection, installation, upgrades, tooling design, and capital investment budgets.
  • Documentation & Standards: Establish/approve process specifications, work instructions, material specifications, and ensure compliance (Safety, Quality, Regulatory).
  • Material data accuracy: driving initiatives & Implementing a continuous process to review material data accuracy
  • Material setup: define production BOM for new code and define Make or Buy based on industrial organization

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Management Engineering or related discipline from an accredited university or college; or equivalent experience
  • SAP MM module knowledge
  • Fluency in Italian and English

Skills

  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Change Management
  • Collaboration
  • Engineering Management
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Kaizen Leadership
  • Kaizen Methodology
  • Leadership
  • Lean Methodologies
  • Machine Shop Operations
  • Manufacturing process operations

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No