Director of Manufacturing Engineering

Astec is a global, environmentally focused infrastructure and manufacturing company that specialises in asphalt road building and aggregate processing. Our mission is to design and build the most innovative products for the industries we serve, leveraging innovative solutions and technologies to serve customers all over the world.

The Group Director of Manufacturing Engineering will develop and lead a multi-disciplined engineering team that drives world class manufacturing processes and systems across all IS Group production sites and value streams. As a critical member of the IS Group Functional Leadership Team, this role will be the functional lead for all Manufacturing Engineering resources and will play an important role in all manufacturing continuous improvement activities and strategies.

As Group Director, you will support various site leadership teams with a focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Velocity, and Cost.

• Together with the site safety leaders and management team, support corporate safety programs and drive safety into the design of the product, process, and work environments.
• Ensures that best practices are developed and shared among group manufacturing locations, monitors progress to goals, and helps with tools, training, and resources as required.
• Hire, manage, and develop a group level technical team of manufacturing engineers capable of executing to the strategic plan with innovation, engineering know-how, and proven core competence. Assist sites in vetting their ME candidates to the same standards.
• Aids in defining and coordinating the group manufacturing engineering strategy at each location aligned with the overall operations objectives of the company, including optimizing site footprint, accelerating site automation, leading new product introductions, driving lean improvement project, etc.
• Serves as team member of regular Project Management Office (PMO) reviews of projects mentoring ME’s in project progression and preparation for site reviews.
• Ensures adherence to Capital Acquisition Request (CAR) processes through preliminary review and input to CAR prior to submission for leadership approval.
• Ensures the IS ME team establishes the ME requirements for successful Oracle implementation and following utilization. Provides Oracle training for site ME’s and support of ME related Oracle implementation and utilization issues.
• Serves as subject matter expert in the establishment of standard labour for site operations.
• Manages and supports annual planning of large-scale capital investment and cost reduction efforts. Assist Director of Strategic Operations (DOSO) in establishing capex investment priorities for each site.
• Guide, direct, and coordinate the implementation of process improvements and equipment upgrade/development projects to increase product quality, manufacturing efficiencies, production yields, and reduction of product costs.
• Support the launch of new or improved product by fully supporting the new product development process. Ensure product is designed for manufacturability and optimal safety, efficiency, and cost. Be the primary interface between Manufacturing and Design Engineering departments.
• Participate in product development reviews to ensure manufacturing engineering and manufacturing operations readiness for upcoming initiatives and products.
• Be responsible for integrating a LEAN/CI approach, providing strong leadership to change the culture; implementing a manufacturing strategy which encompasses lean product development, lean manufacturing principles, and optimisation of process/product flow.
• Drive factory yield improvements through establishing systems/tools that enable effective data capture, process enhancements, design changes and early design input during new product development.
• Assist the Production Planning & Control team to ensure that each site maintains systems and documents to govern the control of manufacturing processes used in the production of final assemblies and components. This includes hourly and daily measurement systems for monitoring the output of the processes.
• Achieve manufacturing…