Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Description

   Overall Purpose of the Job:

Manages, Organizes and Prioritizes the activities of the ME Team to maximize manufacturing support as it relates to product quality, Service call rate and cost reductions inside the plant.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates improvement of manufacturing processes in the plant studying products and manufacturing methods.
• Drive continuous improvement in conversion cost as measured by company KPIs.
• Improve productivity and manufacturing efficiency by analyzing use of work force, Space requirement and layout across operations in the plant.
• Develops and leads manufacturing engineering activities to improve the use of machinery (OEE) and reducing cycle time.
• Reference for central Manufacturing engineering activities concerning new product introduction, confirming new manufacturing processes and supporting their implementation.
• Reference for central Manufacturing engineering activities concerning new technology’s introduction.
• Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services, following and established procedures and focusing on cost reduction.
• Confers with plant management and central ME regarding manufacturing capabilities, production plans and other considerations to facilitate production process.
• Participates to central ME initiatives.
• Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.
• Keeps updates internal manufacturing process database and production capacity data. Update site specifications documents and plant layout
• Support plant activities to reach the Quality targets.
• Develops plant operation budgets and Capex plans in cooperation with Central ME.
• Drive local plans to reduce energy and water consumption, also by introducing new company standard.
• In charge of plant infrastructures and facilities projects (Fire Protection, Safety, property protection and security).
• Actively contributes to the professional growth of plant manufacturing engineering team.

Areas of authority:

• Approves vacations, allowances, and penalties inside his/her Operations.
• Nominates high performing employees for rewards (Suggest & Win, Quarterly Excellence awards, etc
• Evaluation and rating of subordinates (Performance management process)
• Deciding salary increase in alignment with performance level and company’s salary structure.
• Approving Budget of Department.

Organizational Relationships:

• Supervision of: Process Engineers, Maintenance Manager, Dies & Tools maintenance engineers, Automation Expert.
• Functional relationships with: Production, EMS, HR, Supply Chain, warehouse, Quality
• External Relationships: Suppliers

Education, Skills, Experience required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years’ experience in Engineering.
• Project Management Skill is Required.
• Good Written and Verbal Communication Skills in English.
• Ability to Apply Lean Manufacturing Concepts.
• Auto CAD, MS Project & MS Office Tools.