HNI Corporation

Engineering Manager – Systems & Operations Integration

HNI Corporation  •  Muscatine, IA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.What We Need: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering Center of Excellence at our Highway 61 facility. This role is responsible for leading cross-functional engineering teams while driving the integration of material flow, information flow, and data systems across operations.This is an opportunity for an engineering leader who can bridge operations and technology, define a future-state vision, and implement solutions that improve labor performance, efficiency, and overall business outcomes. The ideal candidate will bring a systems mindset and help ensure consistency and connectivity across processes, tools, and platforms.What You Will Do:
  • Provide strategic technical leadership by creating plans, prioritizing work, and managing engineering activities across the facility
  • Lead and develop engineering teams across improvement, integration, and systems-focused workstreams
  • Define and drive the future-state roadmap for systems, data, and operational integration
  • Design and optimize how material flow, information flow, and data systems connect end-to-end
  • Partner with IT and corporate teams on systems architecture, governance, and platform utilization
  • Evaluate and enhance solutions related to MES, IoT, and data systems to improve visibility and performance
  • Identify and implement improvements across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) metrics
  • Support plant-level technical escalations and lead process evaluations, audits, and Gemba walks
  • Effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
What You Have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, including leadership experience
  • Proven success driving continuous improvement and operational performance
Preferred:
  • Experience with MES, IoT, or data-driven manufacturing environments
  • Strong understanding of systems thinking and how operations, data, and technology integrate
  • Background bridging engineering and technical systems (IT, data, or automation exposure)
  • Experience developing future-state roadmaps and driving system/process improvement
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About HNI Corporation

At HNI Corporation, we go beyond simply building great desks, chairs, file cabinets and fireplaces. We're focused on building relationships by delivering solutions. With deeply held values that were born with the corporation's founding in 1944, we are a collection of individuals, called members, united by a dedication to integrity, quality, innovation, service and continuous improvement.

HNI Corporation's growth strategy centers on three imperatives: building leading brands, taking care of end users and achieving operational excellence. The corporation's manufacturing and supply chain expertise consistently translates to the highest quality products, provided with the fastest and most dependable turnaround in its industries.

HNI Corporation is a group of companies, each representing a family of leading brands, products and services for the office and home. In HNI Corporation's unique and powerful member-owner environment, every member has an opportunity to share in making the business better. Everyone is rewarded for individual and collective performance through stock ownership, profit sharing and other compensation systems.

Our culture is built around Rapid Continuous Improvement (RCI) and the notion that every member has something unique and valuable to contribute. We have found that when our people share their ideas, and management acts on those ideas, we achieve something powerful: 10,000-plus individuals working actively to make the company better.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Muscatine, Iowa
Year Founded
Unknown
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