International Manufacturing Manager

Job Summary:

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 processes.
• Increase productivity as measured by process KPIs.
• Refine and drive alignment on manufacturing process standards (GOS)
• Coach manufacturing engineering teams for development.

Production Equipment Strategy -

• Manage fleet of manufacturing equipment and drive improvement plans.
• 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).

Operations support and technical expertise –

• Introduce new advances in manufacturing equipment and tooling.
• Assess overall operations performance and drive improvement actions.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Maintains knowledge of shop floor operations, product mix and characteristics, and general business processing requirements.
• Accommodate occasional requests for support outside of essential functions listed above as required to support business objectives.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Education:
• B.S. Degree in Engineering.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of ten years of experience in manufacturing process engineering.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing technology and processing methods.
• Minimum of five years of project management experience.
• Experience in at least 2 of the following skillsets: Stamping, Forging, CNC Machining, Casting, or Plastic Injection Molding.

Computer Skills:

• 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% (ability to travel internationally to all of our locations is required)