Help Build the Factory That Takes CRAFT to the Next Level Tecate, Baja California, Mexico New Factory | Full-Time | Primarily Production-Floor Based

Do you look at a manufacturing process and immediately think, “There has to be a better way”? CRAFT is a privately held, entrepreneurial, fast-growing refrigeration manufacturer serving the U.S. supermarket and restaurant market. We combine manufacturing in Baja California, world-class engineering, advanced refrigeration design and testing, and close collaboration with major U.S. customers to create increasingly energy-efficient, reliable refrigeration systems with outstanding lifetime cost of ownership. And we're building a new factory in Tecate. We're looking for a hands‑on Manufacturing Engineer who wants more than maintaining somebody else's processes. We want you to help build better ones.

YOUR MISSION
Build and continuously improve the manufacturing processes that allow CRAFT to scale rapidly while improving: Safety Quality Productivity Delivery Operator Capability

Your operating philosophy should be: Observe it. Measure it.



Understand it. Improve it. Standardize it. Teach it. Verify it. Sustain it. That's the core mission of this position.

WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO
- Conduct time and motion studies and establish reliable takt, cycle and labor standards.
- Find bottlenecks and improve line balancing, layouts, workstations and material flow.
- Use SMED to attack changeover time.
- Create simple, visual Standard Work and Work Instructions that operators can actually use.
- Develop PFDs, PFMEAs and Control Plans for priority processes.
- Apply Lean, 5S, Kanban, FIFO, visual management and Poka-Yoke where they make work better.
- Use 8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, Pareto and PDCA to eliminate root causes—not just contain problems.
- Support pilot runs and turn new designs into stable, repeatable production processes.
- Train operators and verify that standardized work is understood and sustained.
- Work closely with Producti

📌 Manufacturing Engineer – Refrigeration Manufacturing (Tijuana)
🏢 Craft
📍 Tijuana