​​​​​​​Production Engineer

Production Engineer
Location: South Florida
Compensation: $85,000 – $115,000 base salary + bonus + Relocation Package

About the Role: This is a production leadership role with a growing equipment manufacturer building complex products for commercial, industrial, and mission critical environments. The right person will lead the daily factory operation, manage a production team of roughly 50 employees, and help drive output, safety, quality, efficiency, and on-time delivery.

This is a strong fit for someone who knows how to run a real manufacturing floor, set clear expectations, coach supervisors and operators, solve production problems, and improve how work gets done. HVAC experience is not required; strong manufacturing operations leadership is what matters most.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead daily production and manufacturing operations to ensure finished equipment ships on time.
• Manage, coach, and develop a production workforce of roughly 50 employees.
• Set production goals, staffing plans, schedules, and workflow priorities across the floor.
• Drive output, efficiency, safety, quality, productivity, and cost improvement across product lines.
• Evaluate machine resources, staffing needs, bottlenecks, downtime, and production constraints.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering, product engineering, quality, and leadership on ETO and new product builds.
• Establish workflow policies that improve speed and efficiency without compromising safety or product quality.
• Communicate production issues, resource needs, and operational roadblocks to senior leadership.

About You:

• 5+ years of manufacturing operations experience in a management or supervisory capacity.
• Experience leading production teams in a real manufacturing environment is required.
• Background in industrial machinery, automotive, aerospace, defense, appliances, electronics, metal fabrication, or similar manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, staffing, throughput, downtime, safety, and quality.
• Proven ability to train, coach, mentor, and hold production employees accountable.
• Working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, process improvement, and problem-solving tools.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, quality, maintenance, and plant leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related field is preferred.

What We Offer:

• Performance-based bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Relocation support available for the right candidate.
• Opportunity to lead a hands-on manufacturing team in a growing production environment.
• Direct impact on output, safety, quality, delivery, and long-term factory performance.
• Highly visible role working across production, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and senior leadership.