Position Overview
Trojan Battery Company is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in a high-growth, innovation-driven manufacturing environment. This role is responsible for leading process design, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives, with a strong emphasis on PLC-controlled manufacturing systems, equipment reliability, and process capability.
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer serves as a technical leader and problem solver, providing direction to cross-functional teams, mentoring junior engineers, and driving capital projects that improve safety, quality, throughput, and cost. This position plays a key role in advancing automation, controls robustness, and data-driven manufacturing performance across the plant.
The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically strong, and comfortable working on the manufacturing floor while also leading strategic initiatives and capital investments.
Areas of Focus
· Lead and support automation-driven process improvements using PLC-controlled equipment
· Drive process stability, equipment uptime, and yield improvements through controls optimization and root-cause analysis
· Lead capital projects involving automated equipment, PLC upgrades, line expansions, and capacity improvements
· Act as a technical escalation point for complex process and equipment issues
Responsibilities
· Responsible for determining how key functions in a process are identified, defined & controlled
· Provide senior-level technical support for Allen-Bradley PLC-controlled manufacturing equipment (ControlLogix / CompactLogix environments)
· Improve capability through statistically screening variables that have the greatest impact to our process
· Troubleshoot and debug PLC logic, I/O, sensors, actuators, VFDs, and servo systems
· Provide process and operations support and input to cross functional teams.
· Ensure that Lean manufacturing principles are apply for waste removal and ergonomics within all aspects of system, lines, and cells design. As well be familiar with Tack Times, SMED, Poke Yoke, Kan-Bans, Kaizen, 6S, A3, TPM, etc.