We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer Manager to lead a manufacturing team and oversee engineering activities within the manufacturing facility, ensuring that products are produced to meet quality standards, production schedules, and cost objectives.Â
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the manufacturing engineering team, providing guidance, mentoring, and training to ensure the team's success and professional growth.
- Develop and implement manufacturing processes and procedures to optimize production efficiency, quality, and safety.
- Transforms the business using lean methodologies
- Coordinates maintenance activities at the site addressing preventative maintenance, capital projects, upgrades/updates and custodial staff
- Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams including production, design engineering and quality assurance to drive continuous improvement and innovation in manufacturing processes
- Identifies opportunities for automation and integration of new technologies to streamline production processes and increase productivity
- Leads root cause analysis and corrective action activities to address manufacturing issues and ensure compliance with our quality policy and regulatory standards
- Develops and manages budgets, forecasts and resource allocation for manufacturing engineering projects
- Drives a culture of safety, quality and excellence throughout the manufacturing engineering team and across the organization
- Develops and maintains relationships with 3rd party contracted resources
- Communicates effectively with all levels of the company
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 years Manufacturing experience
- Minimum of 3 years Manufacturing Engineering and Lean Management experienceÂ
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering; post-graduate degree is a plus
- Experience working on issues of diverse scope, where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends
- Ability to effectively lead and manage people, including setting expectations, assessing performance, providing feedback, delegating tasks, having difficult conversations, and engaging and developing employees
- Experience successfully deploying capital improvements, such as automation from conceptualization to implementation
- Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information
- Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions
- Experience with Injection molded plastics is a plus
- Experience with electronic components is a plus (i.e.; motors, wire harnesses, printed circuit boards)
- Experience with Google Suite is nice to have
- CAD experience is a plus
- A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with Team Members and colleagues