Director of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering

Nomad Global Communication Solutions • Columbia Falls, MT • 4h ago

This position requires that you must be a US Citizen for consideration and meet all Federal Contractor employee requirements. Nomad GCS does not support the H1B Visa for this position.

Position : Director of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering

Division : Innovative Solutions Group

Department : Innovative Solutions Group (ISG)

Status : Full-Time

Overview: Nomad Global Communications Solutions is a leading provider of communication and response products serving a wide variety of customers. Our purpose is to be the solution when every minute matters. We seek a candidate that is self-inspired to learn and demonstrates a high degree of customer service while positively contributing to our team.

Organizational Structure: Engineering is organized into Teams and Disciplines within the Innovative Solutions Division. The Director of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering (Team 4) owns manufacturability, production readiness, and final engineering validation prior to release to Production . This role ensures designs are technically correct, buildable, safe, repeatable, and aligned with Nomad's manufacturing capabilities and throughput requirements.

This role:

Validates engineering output prior to Production release

Ensures manufacturability, safety, and repeatability across all disciplines

Protects engineering intent while enabling Production throughput

Does not invent, configure, or standardize designs

Measures of Success:

First-pass Design-for-Manufacture-and-Assembly (DFMA) acceptance rate

Reduction in production rework and clarifications

Manufacturing throughput and takt time improvements

Reduction in production deviations and workarounds

Clear and auditable manufacturing documentation

Responsibilities:

Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Execution

Own DFMA review and approval prior to Production release.

Ensure designs are buildable, safe, repeatable, and clearly documented.

Reject incomplete, unclear, or unmanufacturable designs and return them for correction.

Production Readiness & Validation

Serve as the final engineering validation gate before designs are released to Production.

Ensure Production never needs to reinterpret engineering intent or create workarounds.

Validate tooling, fixtures, layouts, and workflows required for execution.

Industrial Engineering & Throughput Optimization

Optimize takt time, layouts, tooling efficiency, and labor utilization.

Establish and improve manufacturing cells and lines.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce waste and increase throughput.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Feedback

Partner with Team 1 to provide manufacturability feedback for standards improvement.

Collaborate with Team 2 and Team 3 to address manufacturability risks early.

Capture Production and field feedback and feed systemic issues into Standards & Modularity.

Resource Coordination & Leadership

Lead Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering resources assigned to Team 4.

Coordinate with Discipline Managers on staffing and capability needs.

Set clear expectations for technical rigor, validation discipline, and delivery.

Education and Experience:

Required:

8+ years engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibility.

Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Systems, Human Factors, or related). Equivalent experience considered.

Degree must be ABET accredited.

Demonstrated ownership of engineering standards, architectures, modular platforms, or reusable systems across multiple programs.

Strong cross-functional leadership: ability to align stakeholders, drive decisions, and deliver through influence.

Roadmap scoping, estimation, and delivery management experience.

Preferred:

Experience in complex integrated systems (mobile/industrial systems, connected systems, safety-critical or operator-facing products).

Familiarity with configuration management, requirements discipline, verification/validation frameworks, and release governance.

Background collaborating with manufacturing and field/service teams to translate feedback into engineering improvements.

Key Competencies:

Roadmap leadership and execution discipline

Standards governance and change management

Systems thinking and interface rigor

Clear written communication and documentation

Practical enablement mindset (adoption-focused, not just authoring)

Data-driven decision making (metrics, KPIs, capacity/estimation)

Demonstrable adoption and impact (reuse, quality improvements, faster execution, fewer integration issues)

Physical Demands:

Ability to stand and sit for extended periods.

Manual dexterity to operate office equipment.

Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Working Environment:

Professional office environment with regular interaction with guests, clients, team members, and vendors.

Typical indoor manufacturing environment. Noise level is usually moderate. Safety glasses and closed-toe shoes are required when on the production floor.

Everyday workwear must be business casual/smart casual and appropriate for the office environment.

Subject to temperatures fluctuations if/when job duties require time on the production floor.

Expected to maintain a professional image and demeanor on company property and while representing the company off-site.

Nomad GCS is an equal opportunity employer,(EOE,) and voluntarily follows affirmative action guidelines. As an equal opportunity employer, Nomad GCS does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable state and local laws.

Department

87-Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering

Employment Type

Full-Time

Minimum Experience

Senior Manager/Supervisor

Compensation

$160,000.00 salary DOE

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