Process Engineering Manager

Job Responsibilities

The position is dedicated to the technical leadership of the Process Engineering Team. The position is additionally responsible for the technical support of manufacturing focused on providing a consistent product that meets customer specifications with additional responsibilities including, but not limited to: 

• Lead initiatives to achieve product yield improvements, variation reduction, and achieve cost reduction goals related to the manufacture of ceramic cores/parts.

• Direct and manage the activities regarding process standards and work instructions.

• Manage the facility’s engineering budgets.

• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) initiatives ensuring product development in accordance with overall project timelines, budget, and quoted standards.

• Develop the overall plant scrap reduction plan and manage the initiatives and actions to meet the scrap targets.

• Work in conjunction with the Product Engineering Manager to achieve all plant financial and scrap reduction metrics. 

• Report status of scrap reduction initiatives to Plant Manager and other high-level managers as required. 

• Direct and participate in the conception, evaluation and implementation of cost improvement, product improvement and production problem solving activities.

• Coordinate scrap reduction initiatives with the HRC and Corporate Engineering technical staff

• Establish professional working relationship with Engineering Managers and Engineering Team at each casting facility and promote engineering team communication regarding product status and issues.

• Establish professional working relationship with HRC, suppliers of raw materials, equipment, and services and promote engineering team communication regarding supply status, material, quality, testing and issues.

• Work directly with process customer’s engineering team in conjunction with the casting facility’s engineering team to optimize materials, core design, and producibility as required.

• Responsible for developing the future strategic engineering organizational structure with the Product and Tooling Engineering Manager, the Plant Manager, and the HR manager.

• Responsible for creating an environment of engagement and fostering development of Engineering Staff

• Manage training development strategies for the Engineering Staff

• Maintain high attendance record.

Job Roles 

• Accountability and follow-through--interacts within organizational matrix understanding the inherent interdependence of roles and functions; takes ownership of outcomes; acts in the best interest of the team, group, function, and enterprise.
• Rigor--continuous focus on repeatable processes at scale; analyzes efforts; recalibrates as needed; considers multiple inputs from multiple stakeholders; exhibits detail orientation.
• Tactical agility--inspires team to proactive improvements while maintaining ability to react to issues as they arise; functions well under pressure of production and time expectations; able to manage the tension of speed and specification demands. 
• Practical and adaptive thinking--understands organizational capabilities and introduces solutions within existing frameworks while simultaneously adapting to changes, developments in technology and marketplace demands. 
• Versatile leadership--technically capable, yet able to detach to gain perspective; deploys resources strategically and works alongside team when necessary.
• Possibility thinking--proactively challenges the status quo and seeks to solve problems differently than we have in the past; explores the boundaries of technology and current practice; embraces and champions change including automation, smart manufacturing and progress in data gathering and interpretation.
• Relationship-oriented--establishes and maintains connections with team, peers and cross functionally; collaborates and compromises for the good of the enterprise; provides thought partnership; creates and scales best practices across enterprise.
• Prioritization--understands the business and its technical, financial, and strategic direction and goals; prioritizes work accordingly and communicates rationale for decisions; advocates for customers within t