Process Engineering Manager

ERSG is currently looking for a permanent Process Engineering Manager for a company that is delivering the world’s longest and most complex subsea and land cable systems to connect nations and drive the global energy transition. This role will be in Charleston, South Carolina.

Process engineering ensures the consistency of the actions and initiatives related to process: process control development, process continuous improvement, process optimization breakthrough. It drives process continuous improvement activities, with a view to reduce manufacturing variance and improve competitiveness and participates to industrial benchmark activities.

• Define and optimize process parameters to communicate them to production to produce at the best cost.
• Validate and record any changes to the process (material, tooling and machine)
• Coach the production department to work on the capability of the process to reduce the cost of production.
• To be the privileged interlocutor between CC2 and the Charleston site.

• Tendering:
  Provide Tender Production cost for the Factory, including relevant investments. Keep Plant factory cost standards up to date
• Safety, quality, environment, work regulations, compliance and competition rules Apply and motivate staff to apply instructions, procedures and regulations in terms of safety, quality, environment and work regulations.
• Process:
  Define, optimize the parameters of each manufacturing process Validate and record any changes to the process parameters.
• Process Engineering:
  Coordinate the drafting, validation and dissemination of manufacturing and self-control procedures
• Standard:
  Define and improve production standards data.
• Continuous improvement:
  Promote and organize continuous improvement through the use of proven methods (5W, 8D,…) but also by participating in benchmarks within the group.
• Organization of the service:
  Ensure you have the necessary expertise and versatility at all times.
• Employee management:
  Leading, training, coaching and monitoring your direct reports.
• Technical feasibility:
  Update the technical information that allows the design offices to determine the Technical feasibility of the proposed cables.
• Drives alert system for critical issues, including AMS ; checks that actions are implemented and lessons learned are integrated.
• Ensures that the organization has the right skills and competences in place, and have a development plan for each member of the plant technical organization.

• To guarantee compliance with these rules, to reduce the frequency and severity of work accidents as well as the environmental impact of the activity
• Results of internal/external audits, environmental indicators (energy saving, reduction and sorting of waste, etc.)
• Respond to specifications and ensuring safety, quality and productivity,
• Monitoring of the competitiveness plan (SMP)
• Proposal and implementation of actions
• Meet the company's requirements in terms of process engineering, materials and processes within the budget approved by management
• Respect for deadlines, results of internal and external audits (ISO 9001 and 14001)
• Budget realization
• Ensure that the department has competent and motivated staff at all times to achieve the site's objectives
• To be able to manufacture cables within the quality and calculated manufacturing costs
• Number of NC; determine the causes of problems and solve them
• Number of internal NC due to raw materials production discrepancies

• Industrial Engineer Degree or minimum 5-7 years of industrial manufacturing experience
• Experience:
  
  5 years minimum in an industrial manufacturing sector, process engineering or quality function
• Good interpersonal skills and upward and downward communication
• Strong…