Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Chesterfield, MI, United States - On-site

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It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

What You’ll Do
As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager position, you’ll be part of our team located in Chesterfield, Michigan.  You’ll get to:  

• Support two manufacturing Chesterfield, MI locations and manage a team of engineers.
• Develops and implements optimal, cost-effective manufacturing processes and methods in accordance with product specifications and quality standards.
• Recommends and implements improvements to production processes, methods and controls.
• Coordinates manufacturing launch for new or revised products.
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement activities that will result in cost savings, utilization and efficiency improvements and overall safety of the employees in the plant.
• Acts as a technical bridge between Product Engineering and the plant floor. 
• Actively drives productivity improvement programs, encompassing every aspect of the manufacturing process, from raw material to finished goods.
• Works with teams to select optimum manufacturing methods and sequence of operations to produce high quality products at the lowest cost.
• Initiates all of the manufacturing principles of Lean Manufacturing.
• Ensures safety and ergonomic considerations are made relating to equipment, process and plant layout.
• Continuous improvement activities related to inventory reduction, working capital turns and complexity management.
• Strong understanding of the development of the budgeting process, and closely monitor on a daily basis.
• Prepares capital expenditure justifications for production equipment.
• Understand and be able to guide/coach teams on a wide range of process improvement tools to identify and eliminate waste.
• Orders and manages the construction of primary and auxiliary equipment.
• Performs manufacturing capability studies for new equipment.
• Coordinates the installation and start-up of production equipment and required auxiliary equipment.
• Interface with Tooling Engineering and Purchasing on the new construction of tools, injection molding machines and secondary operation of equipment.
• Establish and maintain the processes in production to ensure the production of parts which meet company and customer specifications.
• Ensure compliance with safety, regulation and quality standards.
• Manage set-up workshops to improve mold change time and throughput.
• Propose technical solutions to problems, and coordinate with departments.
• Carries out process improvement, problem resolution, project management and employee training.
• Improves manufacturing processes and methods for cost-reduction, quality improvement and efficiency.
• Assists plant manager in improving a system of production control, standard operating procedures, safety, quality control and training.
• Performs research, design and development of manufacturing processes including production flow, assembly methods and production equipment.
• Prepares and maintains detailed layouts of buildings and equipment.
• Coordinates the manufacturing launch of new/revised products including establishing goals, training team members and evaluating results.
• Performs product/process analysis for cost reduction, quality improvement, and improved efficiency.
• Represents manufacturing on cross-functional teams.
• Act as liaison / interface between plant and program.
• Conduct and report on monthly launch readiness reviews.
• Oversee critical programs launch readiness reviews.
• Monthly issue of Run@Rate schedules / results for plant, including convergence planning
• Validate KPI reporting and convergence actions.
• Validate plant capital equipment / capacity needs available to support launch.
• Coordinate installation and launch of all production equipment and tooling.
• Participate in PMP / APQP reviews as required.
• Validate team hiring ramp curve realistic/capable for plant.
• Study, develop in detail, validate, release and set-up the complete Production System of the program using group standard lean Capex methodologies: process flow charts, work combination Table, PFA (Process Functional Analysis), layout (SW