Job Summary:
Drive global manufacturing performance improvement through equipment, process engineering, and product engineering collaboration.
Essential Functions:
Manufacturing Process Leadership –
- Lead technical process improvement and troubleshooting support on metal and plastic fabrication processes.
- Increase productivity as measured by process KPIs.
- Refine and drive alignment on manufacturing process standards (GOS)
- Coach manufacturing engineering teams for development.
Production Equipment Strategy -
- Manage fleet of manufacturing equipment and drive improvement plans.
- Maintain and update global proprietary machine design drawing catalog.
- Lead global machine maintenance strategy with systems to improve asset availability.
- Review and support new capital equipment business case development.
Product Engineering Collaboration -
- Provide recommendations for product development engineers (Design for Manufacturability).
Operations support and technical expertise –
- Introduce new advances in manufacturing equipment and tooling.
- Assess overall operations performance and drive improvement actions.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Maintains knowledge of shop floor operations, product mix and characteristics, and general business processing requirements.
- Accommodate occasional requests for support outside of essential functions listed above as required to support business objectives.
Qualifications and Requirements
Education:
- B.S. Degree in Engineering.
Required Experience:
- Minimum of ten years of experience in manufacturing process engineering.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing technology and processing methods.
- Minimum of five years of project management experience.
- Experience in at least 2 of the following skillsets: Stamping, Forging, CNC Machining, Casting, or Plastic Injection Molding.
Travel Requirements:
30% (ability to travel internationally to all of our locations is required)