Manufacturing Engineering Project Manager - Hamilton, OH, USA, Manchester, NH, USA

Job Overview

The Manufacturing Engineering Project Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic manufacturing projects across multiple Industrial SBU facilities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The primary focus of the position is ensuring that each facility has the manufacturing capacity, equipment, processes, and infrastructure required to deliver the annual operating plan while supporting the SBU’s longer-term, five-year manufacturing strategy.

This position leads a portfolio of approximately five to ten active projects at any given time. Projects will typically include capital equipment and automation investments, capacity expansions, product transfers between facilities, manufacturing process improvements, facility and infrastructure projects, and support for new product development and industrialization. Individual capital projects will generally exceed $500,000, although the portfolio may also include strategically important product transfers or capacity initiatives with limited direct capital investment.

The Manufacturing Engineering Project Manager leads projects from concept and business justification through design, funding approval, procurement, implementation, qualification, start-up, and operational handoff. The role partners closely with manufacturing operations, engineering, finance, sourcing, supply chain, quality, EHS, maintenance, facilities, product management, and external suppliers.

This is an individual-contributor position with significant project and matrix leadership responsibility. The position does not have direct reports but provides direction, coordination, and accountability to cross-functional project teams across multiple locations.

A Day In The Life

Every day at Hubbell is different and you’ll contribute in many ways. On any given day, you’ll make a difference by:

Capacity and Manufacturing Strategy

• Working with SBU and plant leadership to identify capacity requirements necessary to deliver the annual operating plan.
  

• Developing and maintaining a five-year manufacturing capacity roadmap aligned with expected demand, product strategy, manufacturing footprint, and business growth.
  
  Project and Portfolio Leadership

• Leading a portfolio of approximately five to ten active manufacturing projects across multiple facilities.
  

• Managing capital equipment and automation projects that will typically exceed $500,000 in total project cost.
  

• Leading strategically important product-transfer and capacity-expansion projects, including projects with limited capital investment but significant operational complexity or business impact.
  

• Establishing clear project charters that define the business need, scope, objectives, deliverables, financial justification, schedule, assumptions, risks, and required resources.
  
  Capital and Financial Management

• Developing capital expenditure requests and AFEs for manufacturing equipment, automation, tooling, capacity expansion, and facility-related investments.
  

• Preparing project financial justifications, including capacity requirements, cost estimates, labor impact, productivity improvements, savings, margin contribution, payback, return on investment, and implementation costs.
  

• Managing approved project budgets, purchase commitments, invoice approvals, cash-flow timing, capital forecasts, and project closeout.
  
  Equipment, Automation, and Supplier Management

• Developing equipment and process specifications based on required capacity, quality, safety, reliability, maintainability, and operating-cost expectations.
  

• Coordinating technical and commercial evaluations of equipment, automation, tooling, and supplier proposals.
  

• Working with sourcing to select suppliers based on technical capability, quality, delivery performance, total installed cost, lifecycle support, and commercial value.
  

• Leading supplier design reviews and monitoring supplier performance against agreed milestones and deliverables.
  
  Product Transfers and Industrialization

• Leading product transfers between Industrial SBU manufacturing facilities.
  

• Developing transfer plans that address equipment, tooling, routing, capacity, labor, training, inventory, quality, customer approvals, supplier readiness, and production cutover.
  
  Cross-Functional Leadership

• Providing indirect leadership to engineers, technicians, plant personnel, contractors, suppliers, and other project resources.
  

• Building alignment among manufacturing, operations, engineering, finance, sourcing, supply chain, quality, EHS, maintenance, facilities, product management, and commercial stakeholders.
  
  Operational Readiness and Handoff

• Ensuring that safety reviews, equipment documentation, drawings, operating procedures, maintenance plans, spare-parts requirements, training, process controls, and validation activities are completed before operational handoff.
  

• Confirming that new capacity is operational, sustainable, and capable of supporting the required production rate.
  
  

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial (required)
• 10-15 years prior experience in Manufacturing Engineering with proven leadership and management abilities (required)
• Proficiency in using Solid Edge CAD software required (required)
• Advanced Knowledge of business administration, project management, lean, Six Sigma, operational excellence preferred
• Ability to read and interpret drawing requirements and specifications is required.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills are required.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet critical deadlines.