Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Job Description

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