Senior Manager, Engineering (Onsite - Irvine)

The Manager, Engineering will lead the Irvine Manufacturing site’s engineering and maintenance functions to support safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient production operations. This role provides direct leadership to a team of approximately five engineers and indirect leadership through the Manager, Maintenance Operations, who leads a maintenance organization of approximately ten direct reports. The position is responsible for equipment reliability, manufacturing engineering support, process improvement, capital execution, technical problem solving, and cross-functional partnership with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Facilities, and global engineering teams. The successful candidate will be a visible, hands-on leader who spends meaningful time on the manufacturing floor, sets clear technical priorities, develops talent, and ensures engineering and maintenance strategies support Irvine’s production, quality, safety, and growth objectives.

 Position Overview   The Senior Manager, Engineering will lead the Irvine Manufacturing site’s engineering and maintenance functions to support safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient production operations. This role provides direct leadership to a team of approximately five engineers and indirect leadership through the Manager, Maintenance Operations, who leads a maintenance organization of approximately ten direct reports. The position is responsible for equipment reliability, manufacturing engineering support, process improvement, capital execution, technical problem solving, and cross-functional partnership with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Facilities, and global engineering teams. The successful candidate will be a visible, hands-on leader who spends meaningful time on the manufacturing floor, sets clear technical priorities, develops talent, and ensures engineering and maintenance strategies support Irvine’s production, quality, safety, and growth objectives.

Lead the site engineering function for Irvine Manufacturing, including manufacturing engineering, maintenance engineering, equipment reliability, process improvement, and technical production support.   Manage and develop a team of approximately five engineers and provide leadership oversight to the Manager, Maintenance Operations and the broader maintenance team of approximately ten direct reports.   Own the site’s technical strategy for equipment uptime, reliability, capacity, safety, quality, and cost performance, using KPIs such as OEE, MTBF, MTTR, yield, throughput, downtime, and maintenance execution performance.   Partner with Operations to ensure production equipment, processes, staffing support, and escalation processes are sufficient to meet Irvine production commitments and business objectives.   Establish engineering priorities, assign resources, remove barriers, and ensure timely execution of technical projects, corrective actions, equipment upgrades, process improvements, and sustaining engineering activities.   Lead structured problem solving for recurring equipment, process, yield, quality, safety, and productivity issues using appropriate tools such as DMAIC, 8D, root cause analysis, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and CAPA support processes.   Oversee manufacturing engineering support for automated and semi-automated equipment, including troubleshooting, design improvements, process optimization, controls escalation, documentation, and manufacturability improvements.   Provide leadership oversight for the maintenance strategy, including preventive and corrective maintenance, spare parts strategy, EAM/CMMS discipline, equipment inspections, vendor coordination, and escalation of critical equipment or facilities issues.   Manage the site machine shop capability, including prioritization of shop work, safe operation, tooling and fabrication support, maintenance of shop equipment, and alignment of machine shop activities with