JOB DESCRIPTION

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and actively participate in the development of assembly standards and best business practices.
• Evaluate product design for deviations to safety, quality or efficiency targets and drive issue resolution. Promptly elevate issues without solid countermeasures to leadership.
• Lead regular manufacturing engineering reviews of program deliverables to ensure consistent application and execution of standards and use of analysis tools.
• Product, process and engineering release management control to include any long-term forecasting of equipment needs.
• Act as a liaison between the Sycamore facility, AE, and the customer relative to product and process changes.
• Works with other department managers to ensure materials released from this facility achieve the highest quality standards possible.
• Provides supervisor training and employee training on new processes and equipment.
• Lead, manage, and monitor plant continuous improvement operations based on safety, quality, efficiency, HSE & E, and/or cost restraints.
• Work with suppliers to support continuous improvements as required to meet quality, schedule, and cost goals.
• Keep company abreast of Engineering advancements and supporting activities as envisioned by Business Unit and Plant Management.
• Communicate via minutes, telecommunication, and/or electronic mail Systems Engineering activities and information.
• Responsible for adhering to and promoting all HSE &E policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties deemed necessary by the Plant Manager.
• Has the authority to stop production process if a quality or safety concern is noticed.

• Qualifications

• Tertiary Qualification in Manufacturing/Engineering or relevant discipline
• Ideally: Postgraduate studies in Engineering, Production Management or related discipline

• Experience

• 5+ years operational experience
• Preferred automotive background/experience
• Experience in production management of manufacturing equipment
• Experience in new facility set-up, re-layout activities
• Proven experience in a similar role within a JIT environment
• Proven experience in a manufacturing/engineering/people management
• Project Management experience on medium to large projects
• Experience in dealing with building relationships and delivering outcomes

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