Engineering Manager, Web-Handling Machinery

# Engineering Manager, Web-Handling Machinery

Location: Greater Milwaukee Area – On-Site

Salary: $155,000 – $175,000

A Day in This Role

It’s another fast-moving morning on the manufacturing floor. You scan build progress on a new laminating line, review a SolidWorks assembly with your team, and jump into a cross-functional huddle to align on FAT timing. By afternoon, you’re troubleshooting a servo-driven web-handling issue, finalizing a vendor PO for actuators, and coaching an engineer through a design-for-safety update to meet CE and OSHA standards. You close the day planning next week’s prototype tests and resource loading for two simultaneous machine startups.

What You’ll Lead

- Mechanical design ownership—from parts and sub-assemblies to complete machines—for flexible packaging, converting, laminating, and printing-related equipment

- Automation integration across mechatronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and motion control

- Project governance: schedules, budgets, vendor coordination, and resource planning

- Performance validation including prototyping, testing, FAT, and startup support

- Cross-functional collaboration with process engineering, operations, quality, and maintenance

Must-Have Experience

- 8+ years in machinery engineering within flexible packaging, converting, laminating, printing, or closely related environments

- Proficiency in SolidWorks; mechanical design of parts, components, and full assemblies

- Hands-on background with heat sealing, laminating, converting, or similar industrial systems

- Understanding of supported and unsupported substrates and how materials behave in web processes

- Mechatronics depth including pneumatics, hydraulics, actuators, and automated sub-assemblies

- Strong knowledge of PLCs, servos, VFDs, and vector drives used in web-handling systems

- Ability to manage timelines, budgets, vendor communications, and resource allocation

- Advanced troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills

- Experience partnering with process engineering, operations, quality, and maintenance teams

- Proven work with prototyping, performance testing, FAT, and machine startup procedures

- Familiarity with CE, ISO, OSHA, and related safety and compliance standards

Nice to Have

- Exposure to flexographic, gravure, or digital printing systems

- Previous leadership or mentorship of engineers/technical staff

- Track record of elevating reliability, throughput, automation efficiency, or material-handling performance

- Background in advanced web-handling principles or adjacent printing processes

EEO Statement

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

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