Engineering Manager - Highway 61

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.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our HNI Workplace Furnishings team in Muscatine, Iowa!

In this role, you will lead the Engineering Center of Excellence at our Highway 61 facility, managing cross-functional engineering teams focused on three key areas aimed at improving business agility and profitability.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about driving breakthrough change—identifying improvement opportunities, conceptualizing solutions, and implementing new and enhanced processes to boost labor performance, efficiency, and profitability.

If you are a results-oriented leader who can overcome challenges and inspire others, this role is for you.

• Provide strategic technical decisions and solutions by creating plans, prioritizing, delegating, and managing all engineering activities and deliverables for the facility
• Deliver broad technical leadership by effectively communicating technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• Lead the development and implementation of Project Management processes within the Highway 61 facility

In your Day-to-Day, you will:

• Manage, support, and evaluate engineers’ performance, providing coaching and development opportunities
• Oversee project logistics and allocate technical resources to meet business demands
• Identify opportunities to optimize performance in safety, quality, delivery, and cost, utilizing metrics to manage and improve outcomes
• Support plant-level technical escalations
• Conduct process audits and Gemba walks to uncover gaps and improvement opportunities
• Ensure a successful onboarding experience for all engineering team members