Manager - Manufacturing Engineering

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Job Description:

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Role Definition
Leads team supporting operations and manufacturing processes, tooling and tool design, and equipment needed to successfully and economically produce assigned parts/products in accordanced with engineering specifications.

Responsibilities

•    Lead and manage the Process Validation team to ensure manufacturing processes are thoroughly validated prior to production. Ensure alignment with internal manufacturing standards, facility objectives, and New Product Introduction (NPI) goals, while maintaining compliance and driving operational excellence

•    Oversee industrial engineering functions including line balancing, cycle time determination, manpower analysis and layout optimization

•    Develop and maintain documentation for validation protocols, reports, and standard work

•    Collaborate cross-functionally with design, quality, and operations teams to support new product introductions and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, quality, and cost efficiency

•    Leading manufacturing processing, cost estimating, cost management, systems planning, layout, standards, releasing, etc.

•    Managing development, implementation and continual improvement of the operating methods, equipment, systems and other operating infrastructure used to realize operating goals and objectives.

•    Utilize data-driven approaches to solve complex manufacturing challenges and optimize throughput.

•    Mentor and guide a team of engineers to achieve departmental goals and technical excellence 
 

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
 Level Working Knowledge: 

•    Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

•    Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

•    Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

•    Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

•    Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Judgment and Decision Making: Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.
 Level Extensive Experience: 

•    Seeks input from multiple sources to generate diverse ideas for decision making.

•    Sustains organization strategies over time by accurately analyzing tradeoffs in changing direction or staying the course.

•    Makes decisions that remain defensible beyond the short term.

•    Communicates decisions confidently and resolutely.

•    Remains steadfast in championing others' decisions that later come under scrutiny.

•    Coaches others to improve judgment and confidence in decision making skills.

Capacity Planning & Management - MFG: Knowledge of tools, approaches and practices for determining production demand and ability to manage resources needed to provide satisfactory levels of service.
 Level Working Knowledge: 

•    Documents major considerations of product promotions and analyzes their effect on production and required capacity.

•    Provides management reports on actual and projected capacity requirements.

•    Uses available tools to interpret forecasts and work out required capacity.

•    Participates in developing short-term capacity requirements for a specific product or plant.

•    Collects and collates key elements of demand chain used in developing capacity requirements.

Lean Manufacturing: Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.
 Level Extensive Experience: 

•    Manages the adoption of lean manufacturing principles across the organization.

•    Teaches others about how lean approach integrates operations, customers, logistics and product development.

•    Consults on work cell design and plan layout in support of lean principles.

•    Consults on the use of lean approaches across multiple functions.

•    Trains others on key lean measurements and tools and techniques for measuring performance.

•    Participates in detailed planning for implementing and monitoring lean manufacturing.

Manufacturing Equipment: Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update and store them.
 Level Working Knowledge: 

•    Performs routine maintenance: cleaning, replacing defective or worn parts.

•    Performs basic care and safety considerations for a specific type of manufacturing equipment.

•    Participates in setting up new machines and testing according to manufacturer's specifications.

•    Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques; resolves common problems.

•    Conducts routine inspections; checks machine performance and equipment safeguards; reports standards violations.

Manufacturing Processes: Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process.
 Level Extensive Experience: 

•    Advises others using industry experience and benchmarks for methodology effectiveness.

•    Develops best practices documentation for all major activities and tasks.

•    Trains others on all major tasks and considerations for the full manufacturing process.

•    Participates in measuring and monitoring new processes and technologies.

•    Selects and optimizes specific methodologies for specific products.

•    Evaluates benefits, drawbacks and appropriateness of alternative processes and technologies.

Manufacturing Safety: Knowledge of manufacturing safety; ability to identify work-related hazards and perform necessary activities to meet regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, environment and site.
 Level Extensive Experience: 

•    Consults on the use of new tools and techniques for safety protection.

•    Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements.

•    Designs and implements emergency response processes and procedures.

•    Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers; communicates safety rules and regulations.

•    Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations; initiates corrective action.

•    Ensures that all employees and contractors comply with relevant safety policies and regulations.

Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.
 Level Working Knowledge: 

•    Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.

•    Investigates the need to refer potential exceptions upward for review and approval.

•    Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.

•    Participates in the implementation of manufacturing standards and procedures to one's own function.

•    Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.

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