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SalaryThe Manufacturing Process Specialist will drive global manufacturing performance improvement through equipment, process engineering, and product engineering collaboration.
Essential Functions:
- Manufacturing Process Leadership:
- Lead technical process improvement and troubleshooting support on metal and plastic fabrication.
- Increase manufacturing productivity as measured by process KPIs.
- Support remote site alignment on Manufacturing Process standards (GOS) for best practice safety, quality and productivity.
- Coach site manufacturing engineering teams for development
- Production Equipment Strategy:
- Drive improvement plans for helical wire processing equipment.
- Maintain and update global proprietary machine design drawing catalog.
- Lead global machine maintenance strategy with systems to improve asset availability.
- Review and support new capital equipment business case development.
- Product Engineering Collaboration:
- Provide recommendations for product development engineers (Design for Manufacturability).
- Support PLM software implementation.
- Operations support and technical expertise:
- Bring new developments in manufacturing to PLP sites around the world.
- Assess overall operations performance and drive improvement actions.
Qualifications and Requirements
- B.S. Degree in Engineering
- Minimum of ten years of experience in engineering or management.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing technology and processing methods
- Minimum of five years of management experience.
- Ability to use a computer and applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Maintain familiarity with manufacturing, inventory control, and costing software applications.
- Travel Requirements:30%
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong skills in interacting with and communicating with people are essential.
- Proven ability to simultaneously handle a wide assortment of projects involving several departments and locations is important.
- Excellent organizational skills required.
- Strong project management and follow-up is essential.
- Strength to lift and carry objects weighing up to 40 pounds
