Manager, Production Engineering (Lean/CI)

Job Description

Primary Function of the Position

The Manager of Production Engineering is accountable of managing production activities of a Value Stream to deliver products/ services that meet quality specifications, achieve, or exceed service level and cost targets while ensuring employees safety, complying with applicable regulations and company policies.

Under direct supervision works with the Sr. Production Manager or Director of Manufacturing to establish short-term strategies to assure meeting SIOP production goals as well as product/ process transfer, employee engagement, culture deployment, and continues improvement processes.

This role require partnership with local and corporate departments to ensure alignment and flawless plan execution. Asked to maintain an effective work model through the implementation and monitoring of process indicators in terms of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Staff and Productivity.

Essential Job Duties

• Participate in Goals deployment process, measure production metrics (KPIs) to monitor performance and coordinates actions to ensure improvements.
• Review production plan and coordinates manufacturing resources to ensure timely delivery of products and components, while be sure to comply with Quality System requirements
• Interacts and works jointly with other departments to solve any restriction that may stop or slow down production, including material, personnel, equipment, and process issues.
• Participate in planning budget and control expenses applicable to production area to comply or exceed department financial targets
  • Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to next management level (Safety, People, Quality, Service and other)
  • Identifies and coordinates cost reduction projects including labor productivity, inventory optimization, material scrap and defects reduction, using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools to drive improvements on department KPIs
  • Monitor inventory and cyclical counts of raw material
  • Promote the implementation of Safe work conditions by performing /coordinating root cause analysis for safety hazards and/or security incidents or accidents
  • Promote the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Order and cleanliness (5S’s) and Health and Hygiene campaigns
    • Provides timely and effective help for new products introduction and existent process transferences
    • Validate Engineering Changes (ECO's)
    • Ensures to comply with quality system (QSR), Standards (ISO) and Environment, HS requirements, as well as all applicable company procedures and policies
    • Coordinate quality audits random to the production process
    • Responsible for ensuring subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition
    • Participate in the Health and Safety Commission, making tours to identify unsafe conditions
    • Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
    • As part of the responsibilities includes perform interviews, hire, and train employees, plan, assign and manage workload to monitor their development plans (TAPs, OTPs), reward and discipline employees, manage conflicts
      • Partnership with Human Resource department to address personal related activities
        • Ensure that your staff complies with the training program certifications.
        • Ensure that corrective actions generated by quality notifications (VR's, PL's, NCR'S, DN's, EE's) are closed in accordance with the quality system.
        • Perform semiannual evaluation process (C.I.P and MERIT), giving feedback to supervisors
        • Foster respect and morals among the members of the work team in compliance with the company's code of conduct
        • Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding standards, individual and leadership expectations

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• BS in Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in medical industry (Production, Engineering, Planning, Quality) preferable.
• 3+ years of proven leadership as Production Supervisor, Superintendent, or people manager (Coaching and Talent Development)
• Knowledge of the Quality System requirements such as ISO-13485 and MDSAP
• Knowledge of the Environmental System requirements such as ISO-14001
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement through Continuous Improvement methodologies (Lean Sigma, Root Cause problem solving techniques)
• Knowledge on Product, equipment validation (IQ, OQ, PQ)

Preferred Skills and Experience Training