Manager, Mastercam Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM)

Location: Tolland, Connecticut, United States; onsite manufacturing center role.

Salary: $134,000–$167,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops CAM and digital manufacturing solutions as part of Intelligent Manufacturing and the Sandvik Group, serving manufacturing sectors including aerospace, automotive, medical, and education.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary technical team while planning capacity, priorities, performance goals, and succession coverage.
• Manage daily operations, scheduling, readiness, maintenance, utilization, and continuous improvement for the Digital Manufacturing Engineering spaces and Manufacturing Lab.
• Partner with Product Management and R&D on software testing, product validation, benchmarking, beta testing, proof-of-concept work, and technical investigations.
• Advance connected workflows across design, CAM programming, simulation, machine execution, inspection, analytics, and closed-loop feedback.
• Support customer demonstrations, partner engagements, training, content creation, manufacturing projects, and industry events.
• Own manufacturing quality, safety, compliance, operating budgets, capital requests, capability roadmaps, and performance reporting.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, CNC programming, applications engineering, manufacturing operations, product validation, or advanced manufacturing, including at least 3 years of direct or indirect people leadership.
• Working knowledge of CNC machining and CAM programming across 3-, 4-, and 5-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn; hirify.global proficiency is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading work in a manufacturing, applications, demonstration, prototype, or comparable advanced manufacturing operation.
• Experience with software testing, product validation, benchmarking, customer demonstrations, proof-of-concept work, or engineering investigations.
• Working knowledge of tooling, work-holding, metrology, inspection, machine simulation, post processing, automation, and connected manufacturing systems.
• Experience managing technical projects, vendors, equipment installations, operating budgets, and capital requests.
• Experience collaborating with Product, R&D, Commercial, Customer Success, Marketing, IT, Operations, and external technology partners.
• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, mechanical, industrial engineering, mechatronics, industrial technology, or a related field is strongly preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.

Nice to have

• Professional certification or advanced training such as Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Lean Six Sigma, PMP, OSHA 30, or equivalent technical credentials.
• Strong technical leadership, coaching, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and continuous-improvement skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project management tools; reporting and dashboard experience is preferred.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 15% to customer sites, partner locations, and industry events.
• Availability for occasional demonstrations, events, installations, or urgent equipment matters outside normal business hours.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-first manufacturing and demonstration environment with required training, PPE, supervision, risk assessments, and stop-work authority.
• Work emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, accountability, customer focus, responsibility, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
• The role supports customer and partner engagement across manufacturing, software, automation, metrology, and educational ecosystems.
• Employment is full-time and exempt, with occasional travel and out-of-hours operational support requirements.
• hirify.global is part of Intelligent Manufacturing and the Sandvik Group, with a global partner and developer network.