Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Title

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering, other related specialized Engineering area, or the equivalent experience is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience to meet managerial expectations.

Duties and Tasks:

• Possess high level of manufacturing technical skills
• Oversees the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of manufacturing methods, tools, processes, and operations for new and existing products
• Responsible for managing people, conducting meaningful performance reviews, career development discussions and merit recommendations
• Establishes and ensures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
• Works closely with engineering to ensure new products are seamlessly transitioned into production
• Customer interface supporting technical issues
• Responsible for ensuring that all internal quality practices demonstrate compliance to external requirements
• Collaborate across departments—Lines of Business, Supply Chain Management, and Engineering to ensure program objectives are aligned and understood
• Manage all capital requirements in facilities and ensure equipment and machinery meet the required safety, quality, and productivity requirements
• Designs, develops and transfers manufacturing engineering tools, strategies and systems
• May lead other managers and/or supervisors related to a business area, project or strategic activity
• Typically leads a department(s) or large complex project or several smaller projects concurrently to meet business and profitability growth objectives
• Manages group activities to develop and implement long range goals and objectives to meet business and stated profitability growth objectives
• Leads team members and / or senior department staff to develop measurements to monitor performance to established processes and procedures
• Leads teams in resolving business related issues
• Directs, coordinates and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of manufacturing efforts within areas of responsibility
• Ensures process compliance of all manufacturing activity in areas of responsibility
• Contributes to the development of strategies for pricing, program planning, risk management, and margin generation for programs at the proposal stage
• Manages the overall execution of process changes to improve overall efficiency of manufacturing and the effects on current and future work (cost, cycle time, quality)
• Establishes selection criteria for hiring senior members of operations staff and manages hiring process
• Supports proposals within Manufacturing
• Manages and reviews the development of operations schedules and baselines in response to program direction, contract guidance and product lifecycle requirements
• Leads efforts to identify technical risks and develop risk reduction plans
• Regular communications with senior level management
• Travel may be required
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organization

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong leadership skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, bridges communication across teams
• Strong ability to think creatively
• Strong ability to multi-task, skilled at executing complex tasks
• Strong ability to communicate issues, impacts, and corrective actions
• Strong planning, organization and execution skills
• Strong ability to implement changes and monitor effectiveness of changes related to cost and schedule of team or project
• Strong ability to motivate team or project personnel to develop innovative ideas for resolving business or project related issues through continuous improvement
• Strong use of change management and influence skills to obtain management level support for initiatives
• Leads team or project members to define interfaces of roles and responsibilities
• Interfaces with other teams to communicate effectiveness of team
• Strong analytical knowledge in budgeting, planning, problems solving and cost analysis
• Strong ability to prepare, direct, manage and maintain complex…