Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Overall Purpose of the Job

Manages, Organizes and Prioritizes the activities of the ME Team to maximize manufacturing support as it relates to product quality, Service call rate and cost reductions inside the plant.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates improvement of manufacturing processes in the plant studying products and manufacturing methods.
• Drive continuous improvement in conversion cost as measured by company KPIs.
• Improve productivity and manufacturing efficiency by analyzing use of work force, Space requirement and layout across operations in the plant.
• Develops and leads manufacturing engineering activities to improve the use of machinery (OEE) and reducing cycle time.
• Reference for central Manufacturing engineering activities concerning new product introduction, confirming new manufacturing processes and supporting their implementation.
• Reference for central Manufacturing engineering activities concerning new technology’s introduction.
• Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services, following and established procedures and focusing on cost reduction.
• Confers with plant management and central ME regarding manufacturing capabilities, production plans and other considerations to facilitate production process.
• Participates to central ME initiatives.
• Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.
• Keeps updates internal manufacturing process database and production capacity data. Update site specifications documents and plant layout
• Support plant activities to reach the Quality targets.
• Develops plant operation budgets and Capex plans in cooperation with Central ME.
• Drive local plans to reduce energy and water consumption, also by introducing new company standard.
• In charge of plant infrastructures and facilities projects (Fire Protection, Safety, property protection and security).
• Actively contributes to the professional growth of plant manufacturing engineering team.

Areas of authority

• Approves vacations, allowances, and penalties inside his/her Operations.
• Nominates high performing employees for rewards (Suggest & Win, Quarterly Excellence awards, etc
• Evaluation and rating of subordinates (Performance management process)
• Deciding salary increase in alignment with performance level and company’s salary structure.
• Approving Budget of Department.

Organizational Relationships

• Supervision of: Process Engineers, Maintenance Manager, Dies & Tools maintenance engineers, Automation Expert.
• Functional relationships with: Production, EMS, HR, Supply Chain, warehouse, Quality
• External Relationships: Suppliers

Education, Skills, Experience required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years’ experience in Engineering.
• Project Management Skill is Required.
• Good Written and Verbal Communication Skills in English.
• Ability to Apply Lean Manufacturing Concepts.
• Auto CAD, MS Project & MS Office Tools.