Engineering Director

Are you a visionary technical leader who thrives at the intersection of innovation, strategic execution, and operational excellence? We are seeking an Engineering Director to take exclusive ownership of driving engineering strategies across Test, Industrial, Process, Automation, and Product Engineering disciplines.

In this senior leadership position, you will shape technology roadmaps, mentor high-performing teams, and build seamless cross-functional alignment to deliver top-tier support for global customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Characterize and control the critical operational standards and methods that enables quality, cost and delivery on the customer products. Lead best practices sharing and adoption within engineering operations. Lead process capability matrix relative to technology roadmap. Lead the execution of equipment installation, operational and performance qualification.

• Be the standard work subject matter expert for manufacturing operations. Ensure the processes, organizational capability and culture combine to consistently meet commitments to customers. Must be able to build collaborative relationships with internal and external customers. Lead the selection and development of standard work for specified processes and technologies.

• Create and monitor objectives, goals, strategies and measures for the engineering teams. Establish efficient processes and systems to track and report status of initiatives to include resources, projects, savings, etc. Lead development and adoption of process performance monitors to achieve Takt Time.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for engineering activities to ensure that appropriate site, regional and corporate resources are appropriately leveraged. Manage issues to achieve root cause identification and regional deployment of systemic corrective actions.

• Build strong engineers, technicians, and leaders through developing resources for further training, building a candidate pipeline and ongoing coaching. Accountable to execute on Plexus’ Best People strategy, leaders will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning and ensuring that their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.

• Responsible to exemplify and hold their team accountable to demonstrating the Plexus Core Values. As a leader, you will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning, and ensuring their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.

Education/Experience Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required; a degree in Engineering is preferred.

• Ten (10) years of related experience is required; Seven (7) or more years of equivalent industry experience is preferred.

• General Knowledge of ISO 9000, AS9100, TL9000, ISO 13485, FDA GMP Quality System Requirements, through training or hands on experience is necessary for success in this role

• Black Belt certification is preferred

• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.

• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.