STAFF MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Posting Start Date: 10/26/26
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Job Description:
Job Overview
The Staff Manufacturing Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving manufacturing improvement strategy, resolving complex manufacturing challenges, and delivering sustainable improvements in product quality, scrap, yield, and operational performance.
This role provides technical leadership across manufacturing operations, with particular emphasis on connecting upstream manufacturing processes to downstream product performance and customer quality requirements. The successful candidate will independently identify and prioritize the highest-impact engineering opportunities, establish strategic improvement roadmaps, and lead cross-functional teams in executing initiatives that deliver measurable business results.
Job Requirements
The Staff Manufacturing Engineer will balance competing demands from production support, customer quality issues, process improvement, and new manufacturing initiatives. This individual will provide technical direction to Senior and Junior Manufacturing Engineers, challenge low-value activities, and align engineering priorities with business objectives in partnership with Engineering Management.
The position requires exceptional technical judgment, advanced problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to influence organizational decisions, organize cross-functional resources, and communicate clear technical strategies without direct reporting authority.
What Your Background Should Look Like
Technical Strategy, Prioritization & Leadership
Own the development and execution of a strategic manufacturing improvement roadmap focused on scrap reduction, process capability, product quality, and operational performance.
Independently evaluate manufacturing challenges, customer issues, production support demands, and improvement opportunities to identify initiatives with the greatest business impact.
Establish engineering priorities based on financial impact, technical risk, resource requirements, and expected return, while identifying and challenging low-value activities.
Provide technical direction to Senior and Junior Manufacturing Engineers, defining investigation strategies, project objectives, deliverables, and execution plans.
Organize and lead cross-functional teams, establish clear responsibilities, and communicate resource needs, priorities, and technical recommendations to leadership.
Mentor engineers in advanced problem-solving, strategic thinking, process characterization, and continuous improvement methodologies.
Advanced Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Action
Lead complex, cross-functional RCCA investigations involving chronic manufacturing defects, scrap, process variation, and customer quality issues.
Apply advanced problem-solving methodologies, including 8D, DMAIC, Five Why, Fault Tree Analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE).
Develop rigorous investigation strategies to identify and verify root causes, implement sustainable corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.
Utilize SPC, MSA, process capability analysis, and statistical methods to characterize processes and establish robust manufacturing controls.
Evaluate relationships between upstream manufacturing processes, downstream testing, and product performance to identify systemic improvement opportunities.
Manufacturing Improvement & Process Control
Lead high-impact initiatives to improve yield, reduce scrap, strengthen process capability, and improve manufacturing reliability.
Identify and prioritize opportunities for new manufacturing systems, equipment improvements, automation, and capital investment based on business needs.
Support development and improvement of PFMEAs, Control Plans, process monitoring systems, and manufacturing standards.
Leverage manufacturing data and analytical tools to identify trends, evaluate process performance, and support evidence-based decision-making.
Establish performance metrics and verification plans to demonstrate and sustain improvement results.
What your background should look like
Serve as a senior technical resource for customer quality investigations, corrective action activities, and manufacturing-related technical discussions.
Collaborate with Quality, Operations, Design Engineering, Maintenance, and other functions to resolve complex manufacturing and product performance issues.
Lead cross-functional technical teams by establishing clear objectives, responsibilities, timelines, and resource requirements.
Communicate technical findings, investigation status, improvement priorities, and recommendations to plant leadership and customers.
Support customer audits, technical reviews, escalations, and implementation of corrective actions as needed.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, or a related technical discipline required; advanced degree in Engineering or a related field preferred.
Minimum 15 years of relevant manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or related technical experience, including demonstrated leadership of complex manufacturing investigations and improvement initiatives.
Demonstrated experience independently developing and executing manufacturing improvement strategies and technical roadmaps across multiple processes or product lines.
Proven ability to evaluate competing engineering priorities, identify high-impact opportunities, and direct technical resources toward measurable business improvements.
Extensive experience leading complex RCCA investigations and implementing sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
Advanced knowledge of structured problem-solving methodologies, including 8D, DMAIC, DOE, SPC, MSA, process capability analysis, and statistical methods.
Demonstrated ability to connect manufacturing process variables to product performance and identify systemic causes of defects.
Proven record of delivering significant improvements in scrap, yield, product quality, process capability, or manufacturing cost.
Experience leading cross-functional technical teams, mentoring engineers, and influencing organizational decisions without direct reporting authority.
Experience supporting customer quality investigations, technical escalations, and corrective action communications.
Strong data analysis skills using JMP, Minitab, Python, SQL, or equivalent analytical platforms.
Experience with PFMEA, Control Plans, process validation, manufacturing documentation, and change control.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification preferred.
Excellent communication, technical leadership, and organizational skills, with the ability to communicate priorities, challenge assumptions, and influence senior leadership.
This position involves access to information and hardware subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Candidates must be a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or protected individual).
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ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/te-connectivity/) ,Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/teconnectivity/) ,WeChat, (http://www.te.com.cn/chn-zh/policies-agreements/wechat.html) Instagram andX (formerly Twitter). (https://twitter.com/TEConnectivity)
COMPENSATION
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $121,600-$ 182,300 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
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Job Locations:
1000 LUCAS WAY
HAMPTON, Virginia 23666
United States
Posting City: HAMPTON
Job Country: United States
Travel Required: Less than 10%
Requisition ID: 161182
Workplace Type: Onsite
External Careers Page: Engineering & Technology
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