Director, Manufacturing Engineering

Location: Georgetown, Texas, United States; onsite at the Texas manufacturing campus.

Company

hirify.global, a Sanmina Company, designs, builds, and delivers technology infrastructure solutions for world-class customers.

What you will do

• Lead Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Test Engineering, Test Automation, NPI Engineering, and Customer TPM teams for the Texas campus.
• Drive factory performance, operational excellence, safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction through site-level KPIs.
• Optimize manufacturing processes and factory flows, support daily production execution, and improve FPY, RTPY, DPPM, OEE, throughput, cycle time, labor efficiency, and cost performance.
• Deploy robotics, automated assembly, vision systems, digital manufacturing tools, and test automation while improving diagnostics, traceability, test coverage, and operational efficiency.
• Lead NPI readiness, phase-gate reviews, pilot builds, process validation, launch readiness, production ramps, and readiness of processes, tooling, equipment, automation, test systems, capacity, and staffing.
• Lead customer-facing TPM activities, customer reviews, escalation management, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, SPC, yield improvement, cost reduction, waste elimination, and capacity improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience in manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Automation, and NPI organizations.
• Proven success driving operational excellence, productivity, quality, and manufacturing scale.
• Strong customer-facing experience.
• Ability to lead the Texas engineering organization while executing global engineering standards, SOPs, governance models, NPI phase-gates, automation standards, KPI reviews, and best practices.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Experience in data center infrastructure, server, electronics, rack integration, or related manufacturing environments.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on accountability, urgency, continuous improvement, and professional development.
• Competitive base salary and performance-based annual bonus eligibility.
• 401(k), tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health benefits.
• Paid time off, company-paid holidays, parental leave, and family care support.
• Structured training, on-the-job learning, matching gifts, and volunteer programs.