ENGEL embodies a spirit of innovation, built on decades of experience. With a dynamic workplace, ENGEL is the injection molding industry leader in technological advancements, ensuring sustainable global growth. The ENGEL company history is a success story that we keep on writing everyday together with our employees.

Do you have what it takes to spur game-changing innovation, generate creative solutions and add world-class value to our customers? Then get ready to join the ENGEL team and become part of the next chapter in our history as we continue to grow the business in North America!

Position Summary

The Operations Manager leads day-to-day operations for the Wilmington site, ensuring safe, efficient, and scalable execution across order-to-ship processes, production scheduling, inventory management, and fulfillment. Trexel is a newly acquired business within the ENGEL Group, and this role supports the alignment of site operations, reporting, and controls with ENGEL headquarters standards while enabling continued growth.

This position manages a team of approximately 6–10 employees, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and is fully accountable for site financial performance (P&L), including budgeting, cost control, forecasting, and margin delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of ~6–10 employees; set clear priorities, goals, and performance expectations.

• Establish daily and weekly operating rhythms, including tier meetings, KPI reviews, issue escalation, and action tracking.

• Ensure compliance with safety policies, training requirements, and site standards; promote a strong safety-first culture.

Order Processing & Customer Fulfillment (Order-to-Cash Execution)

• Own the end-to-end order process, including order entry verification, scheduling, procurement coordination, production execution, shipping, invoicing readiness, and post-ship issue resolution.

• Improve order accuracy, on-time delivery, lead times, and responsiveness to customer needs.

• Partner with Sales and Customer Service to prioritize orders, manage backlog, and communicate delivery commitments.

Standardization & Alignment with ENGEL Headquarters

• Implement and maintain HQ-aligned processes for:

  • Operational controls and reporting cadence

  • Finance and controlling requirements (P&L, cost center discipline, forecasting)

  • Quality management and corrective action systems

  • Inventory controls and governance

• Prepare and present regular operational and financial performance updates to Trexel and ENGEL leadership.

P&L Ownership & Financial Management

• Full ownership of site P&L, including revenue execution support, labor and overhead management, COGS drivers, inventory accuracy impacts, and margin improvement.

• Lead annual budget development; manage monthly forecast updates and variance analysis.

• Identify and execute cost-reduction initiatives without compromising safety, quality, or delivery.

• Ensure internal controls for purchasing, inventory, and spend approvals align with corporate expectations.

Continuous Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Drive Lean and continuous improvement initiatives (standard work, waste reduction, flow, 5S, root-cause problem solving).

• Partner with Engineering and Applications teams to ensure operational readiness for new products and processes.

• Own vendor performance where relevant (lead times, quality, cost), working with procurement and corporate resources as needed.

Qualifications (Required)

• 3–5 years of operations leadership experience within manufacturing, light manufacturing, industrial technology, or related environments.

• Proven experience managing teams (ideally 6+ direct and/or indirect reports) and building accountability through KPIs.

• Demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and P&L management at the site or business unit level.

• Strong working knowledge of order management and fulfillment workflows (SAP, inventory, shipping).

• Ability to standardize processes, implement controls, and operate effectively in a corporate or hybrid reporting structure.

• Technical background, particularly in equipment assembly, is a plus.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, or equivalent experience.

• Experience operating within a multinational corporate structure (matrix reporting).

Work Environment

• On-site role at the Wilmington, MA facility.

• Occasional travel to ENGEL sites or customer/vendor locations as needed.

WHY ENGEL? The ENGEL group has been thriving for decades. This is because as a family-run company, we rely on long-standing relationships and aim to live up to our own exacting standards of expertise and experience in all fields of plastics processing. We see ourselves as a driving, innovative force that has continually set new standards in a dynamic and diverse industry. Our competitive edge has come from generating added value for customers worldwide.

ENGEL attaches great importance to flexibility, innovation and self-responsibility of all of its employees and business units. This is the only way to consistently supply and guarantee results of the highest global standards.

ENGEL offers a competitive total compensation package to eligible employees, including: health, dental, LTD and life insurance, 401k with match, contribution to HSA, Dependent and Health FSA, vacation pay and holiday pay. We are looking forward to receiving your application and resume and going over the position with you.

ENGEL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protective veteran status or any other category protected by state or local laws.

ABOUT THIS COMPANY ENGEL is a global leader in the manufacture of plastics processing machines. Today, the ENGEL Group offers a full range of technology modules for plastics processing as a single source supplier: Injection molding machines for thermoplastics and elastomers, and automation. In 2016/2017 ENGEL’s turnover totaled approximately 1.36 billion euros worldwide, with 5,900 employees across nine production plants in Europe, North America and Asia (China and Korea), and subsidiaries and representatives in more than 85 countries. ENGEL offers its customers the excellent global support they need to compete and succeed with new technologies and leading-edge production systems.