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Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future. Woodward supports our members' wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. Staff: Estimated annual base pay:$113,000 (minimum) - $147,000 (midpoint) - $181,000 (maximum) Senior Staff: Estimated annual base pay:$145,000 (minimum) - $181,500 (midpoint) - $218,000 (maximum)
All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity
12 paid holidays, including floating holidays Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave Paid parental leave Adoption Assistance Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life Member referral bonus Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Voluntary benefits, including:
Staff: Key Responsibilities:
Production Support: Oversee production support across multiple lines, standardizing troubleshooting procedures and implementing system-level improvements. Manage hardware disposition processes to minimize waste and ensure adherence to quality standards. Manufacturing Process Ownership: Manage multiple manufacturing processes, focusing on creating and maintaining scalable workflows that optimize efficiency across a value stream. Ensure processes remain adaptable to production changes and customer demands. Process Capability and Improvement: Oversee process capability programs across multiple lines, using advanced analytics and simulation tools to improve efficiency and scalability. Production Documentation Management: Manage production documentation for multiple lines, ensuring consistency, compliance, and accessibility. Fully integrate digital documentation systems to support collaboration across teams and improve efficiency. Project Support and Leadership: Oversee cross-functional manufacturing projects within a value stream, oversee complex timelines, budgets, and deliverables
Key Skills:
Productivity Improvements: Oversees process improvement initiatives across multiple production areas, ensuring consistency and optimizing operations. Utilizes advanced methodologies like statistical process control (SPC) and data analysis to drive sustainable efficiency gains. Data Analysis: Develop data-driven models to optimize manufacturing processes, improve resource allocation, and reduce variability within a value stream. Conducting Cost Analysis and Optimization: Optimize manufacturing processes by balancing labor, material, and overhead costs within value streams. Use cost analysis tools to maximize machine uptime, reduce scrap rates, inventory analysis, and improve operational efficiency. Lean Manufacturing: Drive Lean transformations within a value stream, integrating tools such as Kanban and JIT to optimize production. Design for Manufacturability & Assembly: Manage DFMA reviews across multiple projects or product lines, ensuring alignment between design, manufacturing, and assembly processes. Develop standards and guidelines for DFMA implementation and drive process improvements to reduce production complexity. Equipment: Oversees equipment selection and troubleshooting strategies for multiple production lines, ensuring alignment with project timelines and operational goals. Advocates for new equipment at a site level. Develops plant-wide standards for optimizing equipment performance and maintenance practices. Mentorship: Serve as a mentor to junior engineers, focusing on technical development and career growth. Lead by example through accountability and leadership. Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking : Lead cross-functional teams to resolve systemic issues within a value stream and implement sustainable solutions. Knowledge of APQP Tools and Systems: Oversees APQP-driven process control initiatives, ensuring tooling/fixturing designs and process capability improvements are standardized across production lines. Develops systems to monitor critical process parameters. Communication and Collaboration Skills: Lead communication efforts within a value stream, ensuring alignment and transparency in decision-making processes.
Other Qualifications:
Senior Staff: Key Responsibilities:
Production Support: Drive plant-wide production support initiatives by developing proactive strategies to improve process performance and reduce variability and improve uptime. Mentor engineers on advanced tools and troubleshooting methods. Manufacturing Process Ownership: Drive ownership for plant-wide processes by establishing clear standards, implementing new technologies, and mentoring engineers to ensure accountability. Process Capability and Improvement: Drive plant-wide process improvement strategies by standardizing best practices, mentoring engineers, and integrating advanced tools like automation. Production Documentation Management: Drive plant-wide documentation strategies, mentoring engineers on best practices and transitioning to advanced digital tools for real-time updates. Project Support and Leadership: Manage large-scale manufacturing initiatives, streamline operations, mentoring project members, and report progress to senior leadership
Key Skills:
Productivity Improvements: Drives plant-wide process improvement programs, mentoring engineers on methods to reduce variability, improve process reliability, and enhance efficiency. Integrates advanced technologies, such as automation, to improve productivity and scalability. Data Analysis: Lead initiatives to implement data-driven decision-making across a site, using production data to identify areas for improvement and ensure alignment with operational goals. Conducting Cost Analysis and Optimization: Lead cost reduction initiatives by standardizing best practices, driving measurable improvements in asset utilization, and identifying savings opportunities across value streams. Lean Manufacturing: Oversee enterprise-wide Lean Manufacturing programs, aligning processes with organizational goals. Design for Manufacturability & Assembly: Drive DFMA initiatives across departments, standardizing best practices and ensuring product designs optimize manufacturability, assembly, and cost efficiency. Mentor engineers on advanced DFMA techniques and ensure alignment with organizational goals. Equipment: Leads procurement, troubleshooting, and maintenance of complex systems, integrating advanced tools for monitoring and diagnostics. Mentors teams on implementing advanced troubleshooting techniques and ensures alignment with production goals. Mentorship: Guide junior and mid-level engineers by providing structured feedback and advice. Promote collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams to encourage development. Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Drive site wide problem-solving initiatives, focusing on long-term improvements and risk mitigation strategies. Knowledge of APQP Tools and Systems: Drives plant-wide APQP implementation, mentoring engineers on tooling/fixturing strategies and process capability metrics. Reduces variability and improves reliability using advanced tools like automation and statistical monitoring. Communication and Collaboration Skills: Represent value stream in site-wide discussions, advocating for operational improvements.
Other Qualifications:
This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident (i.e., 'Green Card holder'), or a protected person (e.g., asylee, or refugee). Woodward is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local laws. #LI-HYBRID
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Woodward HRT/MPC
life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, short term disability, long term disability, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
Mar 27, 2026