Sr. Director, Industrial Eng & Op Excellence

Overview

Employer: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC

Job Title: Sr. Director Industrial Engineering and Operational Excellence

Job Location: 35500 Chester Road, Avon, OH 44011

Work Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week (M-F, 8 am to 5 pm)

Annual Salary: $266,500 per year

• Provides strategic and functional leadership to enable Bendix to attain its business goals; drives Engineering initiatives and Operational Excellence strategies through Continuous Improvement, Advanced Automation, Optimization, Integration, and Manufacturing Technologies to advance the company in the global Commercial Vehicle industry.
• Champions the Knorr-Bremse Operating Model and drives best practices across the manufacturing organization.
• Ensures flawless new product launches.
• Drives strategic transformation of Manufacturing and Logistics activities including footprint and strategic projects.
• Champions LEAN journey of CVS NA and elevates Maintenance Operating System and maintenance maturity.
• Drives regional Conversion Cost Productivity and regional CAPEX optimization projects.
• Drives standardization ensuring full compliance with Global BoP / BoT.
• Collaborates with global COO and global operations to enhance standards.
• Fosters a culture of lean transformation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence to improve critical KPIs.
• Partners with Knorr-Bremse to develop and deploy global operating strategies.
• Advances digitization of operational measures by implementing advanced systems to monitor, report, and improve KPIs (Factory 4.0).
• Serves as program manager on large-scale Engineering and/or Operational projects.
• Mentors and coaches teams to maximize potential, support career growth, and create positive employee experiences.
• Manages and directs global engineering teams responsible for Industrialization Engineering (IE), Advanced Process Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering for all product lines.
• Leads engineering and technical professionals to deliver high-quality, repeatable processes and automated manufacturing systems to meet production goals.
• Develops transformational process/technology/automation roadmaps and engineering capabilities within the COE and manufacturing.
• Plans and implements production processes, equipment, and assembly technologies, including initial capacity planning.
• Develops and implements strategy for process optimizations based on LEAN principles.
• Implements large-scale process and equipment VAVE for Electronics.
• Leads the creation and adherence of global teams to industrialization strategy guidelines to support program and project launches.
• Leads global engineering teams across IE, Advanced Process Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering for all product lines.
• Conducts Systematic Layout Planning (SLP).
• Oversees contractors and service agreements, projects involving Advanced Product Engineering, line design and modification, and workplace design.

Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering. Fifteen (15) years of experience in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering (or related Engineering field). Ten (10) years’ experience in Commercial Vehicle manufacturing and/or engineering; multi-department leadership experience providing Engineering Services and Support for complex manufacturing facilities;
Greenfield startup experience; large ($5M+) project and/or program management experience; cost efficiency and reduction experience; experience developing manufacturing strategy across multiple countries to optimize cost, footprint and efficiency; assembly and machining practices experience; computer/CAD systems experience; demand/capacity planning experience; and statistical analysis experience.

Travel requirements:
Up to 50% domestic and international travel.

Remote/work telecommuting:
May work remote 1 – 2 days per week.

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