**Senior Manufacturing Engineer – New Product Development** **Bring Products to Life—Safely and Efficiently** Join a well-established industry leader with a century of success, delivering innovative safety and identification solutions across critical sectors like healthcare, aerospace, and manufacturing. Work in a collaborative, growth-focused culture where your ideas are valued and your career truly matters. As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer – New Product Development (NPD), you’ll help shape how new products move from concept through production, ensuring they’re designed for manufacturability, quality, and smooth scale-up. You’ll partner closely with R&D, Product Management, Quality, and Operations to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions that make work safer around the world. **Why You’ll Love It:** + Day-one benefits including health, vision, dental, and 401(k) match. + Frequent promotions and clear career paths. + Leadership that listens and invests in employee development. + Respectful, team-oriented culture focused on continuous improvement. + Exciting pipeline of new product launches as manufacturing capabilities expand. **What You’ll Do:** + Serve as a key manufacturing engineering lead on cross-functional NPD teams. + Engage in a structured stage-gate development process, participating from prototype through design selection, validation, and production scale-up. + Deliver design-for-manufacturability (DFM) feedback early in development to ensure smooth, cost-effective assembly. + Act as the essential bridge between R&D and production—making sure manufacturing requirements are clear, feasible, and high quality. + Lead Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) sessions with cross-functional teams, mapping processes, identifying risks, and developing mitigation plans. + Design and implement lean production lines using single-piece flow, standard work, Kanban, and error-proofing strategies. + Develop and validate assembly fixtures and tooling, including Gage R&R studies to ensure repeatability and quality. + Balance multiple active projects (typically 6–7 at once) in varying stages—requiring strong organization and communication. + Support production floor trials and build strong relationships with operators and engineers to deliver practical, effective solutions. **The Impact You’ll Have:** You won’t just improve processes—you’ll help ensure essential safety and identification products are designed for quality, manufacturability, and long-term reliability. You’ll collaborate across teams to contain defects in-house, improve processes, and deliver best-in-class results to customers. **Who We’re Looking For:** + Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical, or Manufacturing Engineering. + Typically 3–5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience with exposure to new product development cycles. + Solid understanding of industrial/manufacturing engineering fundamentals, including DFM, process capability analysis, and lean methodologies. + Experience interpreting technical drawings and Bills of Materials. + Hands-on experience with PFMEA, control plans, and error-proofing techniques. + Strong communication skills, with the confidence to share feedback in design reviews and collaborate across functions. + Positive, proactive collaborator who thrives on teamwork and learning. + Organized, adaptable problem-solver able to manage multiple projects at varying stages. + Familiarity with Six Sigma tools is a plus—but internal training is provided to green-belt-equivalent level. **Preferred Background:** + Printing industry experience is ideal but _not required_ . + Open to candidates from OEM, contract manufacturing, or general manufacturing with strong NPD exposure. + Experience with formal stage-gate product development and Six Sigma/lean environments is highly valued. **Work Environment / Location:** + Based on-site at the employer’s Milwaukee area headquarters. + Collaborative, flexible schedule (~8–5 typical, with flexibility for production trials and meetings). + Interaction with nearby R&D facilities (~5 miles away) via in-person and virtual meetings. + Production floor engagement varies by project phase and is essential for understanding processes and building relationships. **Ready to Help Shape the Future of Manufacturing?** Apply today to join a team where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work has a meaningful global impact. **_Please note all resumes and candidate information submitted are kept in the strictest confidence. No resume will be released without the candidate's prior permission._** **_About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson_** WellsManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. 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