Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

The Manager, Manufacturing Engineering is responsible for leading and managing a team of manufacturing engineers, ensuring efficient production, maintaining high quality, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives for a manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of manufacturing engineers, fostering a collaborative and motivating work environment.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to optimize production efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
• Project Management: Manage and oversee manufacturing engineering projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
• Budget Management: Prepare and implement the departmental budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that products meet quality standards and customer requirements.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments (e.g., Engineering, Quality, Production) to achieve production goals.
• Innovation: Encourage and support innovation in manufacturing processes and technologies.
• Data Analysis: Analyze production data to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions.
• Vendor Management: Work with vendors to ensure timely delivery of materials and equipment.

Additional Job Details

• Works to achieve operational, functional, and/or business targets within team with direct impact on departmental or job family results

• Delivers operational results that have impact on the immediate or short-term results (e.g., less than 1 year) for the department and/or job family group

• Plans and establishes goals and objectives for a team typically comprising of intermediate-level professionals and entry level professionals

• Communicates with parties within and occasionally outside of own department or job family, which may include external clients or partners depending upon the job area

• Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures

• Responsible for making moderate improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of the job area

• Problems are difficult and moderately complex and typically impact multiple departments or job family

• Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues

• Manages a team typically comprising of intermediate-level professionals and entry level professionals

• Leads, directs and reviews the work of team members in order to accomplish operational plans and results

• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within own area, in accordance with manager review and approval

Knowledge & Experience

• Requires practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes, projects and tactics within one job area

• Typically has advanced knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization

• 5 + years of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in related field

• Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs

• Strong dedication as a team player.

Salary: 90K - 125K DOE

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