Manufacturing Reliability & Process Manager

Amsted Automotive, Transform division in Sterling Heights and Shelby township is looking for a Manufacturing Reliability & Process Manager to lead maintenance strategy, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives that power production success.

Primary Function

The Manufacturing Reliability & Process Manager will ensure that the facilities, layout, and machinery used to manufacture product, run to their maximum efficiency and output through planning and managing the effective use of capital and driving continuous improvements in both process and maintenance activities. This includes total preventative and predictive maintenance and assisting plant Maintenance Managers in managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical, and robotic equipment. This role will also own machine level MES and E-maintenance systems and will lead future implementations of predictive maintenance systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the business unit in the creation and implementation of maintenance best practices, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Develop, participate, and provide follow up to corrective, preventive, predictive and TPM.
• Mentor, coach and develop high performing maintenance leaders at all business unit facilities.
• Develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out on large projects, plan to maintain strict adherence to maintenance activities that will allow the division operations team to deliver effectively.
• Manage capital project budgets, proposals, scheduling, delivery, and installation. Plan for multi-year maintenance schedules on key equipment.
• Prioritize the maintenance and repairs of company equipment and parts, including root cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Drive use of E-Maint system to document equipment issues and develop overall plan to predict machine maintenance and mitigate machine downtime.
• Support AAG MES activities by owning the machine level connectivity and output in each plant and use the data to support the reliability of the equipment.
• Develop engineered solutions to repetitive equipment failures by implementing ways of reducing the need for repairs and eliminating the occurrence of failures. Provide support on new equipment start-up, including machine selection, design and procurement of tools and fixtures, launch schedules, capability assessment, and capacity reviews  
• Ensure that all equipment controls, Programmable Logic Controller, Human Machine Interface, Servo Drives, Industrial computers, and all related software, hardware, communications methods and protocols are in proper working order, up to date and backed-up to the main server and laptops. 
• Manage related continuous improvement projects within the business unit, providing support with employees and outsourcing as required. 
• Create, review, modify and/or debug manufacturing systems in both new and existing manufacturing and test equipment. 
• Develops processes, methods, tooling, and production controls for innovative programs, supervises their assembly and proofing. 
• Communicate and interface with all management personnel and staff in order to meet productivity objectives. 
• Support customer design efforts through full or partial product design 
• Adopt and promote lean manufacturing principals. 
• TransForm Business Unit Maintenance Managers will have dotted line responsibility to this position.        
• Support the Company’s Goals and Objectives 

Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial or /Manufacturing or work-related equivalent  

Experience 

• Eight to ten years in Engineering or maintenance or related work experiences. Experience in automotive management of a fast paced, manufacturing environment.
• Experience with machine programming, integration of machine logic, and operator interface.
• Experience with Total Predictive Maintenance systems 

Skills, Certifications, Abilities 

• Strong Leadership skills – demonstrated experience in building teams & reorganizing teams for performance improvement. 
• Strong written & verbal communication skills across all levels of the organization. 
• Possess working knowledge of IATF16949, ISO 14001 and Q1 compliance criteria. 
• Elevated level of analytical ability where problems are complex. 
• Ability to direct workforce to accomplish projects on time and on budget. 
• Strong mechanical aptitude 
• Blueprint reading skills and familiarity with GD&T 
• Proactive and self-motivated, requiring minimal instruction or guidance for accomplishing tasks. 
• Must demonstrate a prominent level of integrity and discretion as this position is privy to confidential, executive level information.