Manager, Engineering - Manufacturing

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of engineers and engineering supervisors to support Site Operations by providing the technical expertise and innovative solutions required to sustain and optimize ongoing production, ensure site quality, drive continuous improvement projects to completion, oversee critical functional teams, and/or support the transfers of new products and new technologies into the site.
• Be a Strategic Leader:
  Assume responsibility for engineering activities associated with a defined product line(s) or function at one of our manufacturing sites and accept accountability for delivering the Key Performance Goals/Targets established for that product line(s).
• Serve as a key leader within the Operations’ Team and contribute to the development of the annual goals and objectives for Operations from which your Key Performance Goals/Targets are derived.
• Lead your direct reports which include any combination of engineering supervisors and engineers supporting a manufacturing site’s product lines and/or functions within the site.
• Understand and adhere to Integer’s Values and all company policies, procedures, and work instructions defined in your training plan.
• Ensure compliance to the established Quality Management System.
• Ensure compliance to all Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security protocols.
• Lead the execution of the engineering-related imperatives reflected in the site Hoshin Plan.
• Develop and execute, lead as needed, sustained Continuous Improvement processes.
• Define the goals and objectives for your direct reps with supporting Key Performance Indicators (metrics in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Productivity).
• Promote talent by developing individual growth and development plans and organizational succession plans.
• Manage by being present at the Gemba to observe and ask questions and by being an active listener.
• Model an open and inclusive communication style at the daily production boards, in the weekly engineering and operations’ project update meetings, and in the monthly KPI Board reviews and Town Hall meetings.
• As part of your Leader Standard Work, engage with Associates at all levels and across all functions, finding time every week to join them for lunch, during breaks, and inviting them to your team meetings.
• Ensure one/one time with your direct reports regularly to monitor performance and check in on progress to Individual Development Plans.
• Interact, as appropriate, directly with your customers, internal and external; support the preparations of site and customer business reviews and participate in site visits and audits by customers or other parties, as needed.
• Partner with your peers on the Operations’ Team, aligning on strategies, tactics, and actions needed, to achieve Operations’ objectives.
• Contribute to the Site level KPI board; attend and contribute, as appropriate, to the daily production board meetings.
• Collaborate with the R&D and Product Development teams to appropriately support the Product Development Processes and Technology Development Processes with resources in support of new product and/or new technology launches.
• Embed Quality within the Engineering team – “I own Quality.”
• Perform other duties, as needed and as directed.
• Champion Manufacturing Excellence and Market Focused Innovation Strategy Deployments:
  Be a site champion for deployment of the systems and tools to optimize all production and engineering activities across the site.
• Embrace the Manufacturing Excellence culture based on the Integer Production System and its five focus areas:
  Strategy Alignment, Leadership of Sustained Change, Standardization, Associate Engagement, and Systems & Process Optimization.
• Participate in the development and vetting of production plans with representatives from other departments, such as Operations, Planning, Continuous Improvement, Customer Service, Quality, and Materials to ensure that production performance standards meet customer requirements.
• Monitor the status of actual daily and longer-term performance against the production plan; drive actions to address off standard performance. Achieve above ensuring change management and required customer notification are being followed.
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