MIE Project Manager

Requisition Number: 70977

 

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Our Optical Communications segment has recently evolved from being a manufacturer of optical fiber and cable, hardware and equipment to being a comprehensive provider of industry-leading optical solutions across the broader communications industry.This segment is classified into two main product groupings – carrier network and enterprise network. The carrier network product group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data and voice communications. The enterprise network product group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments and individuals for their own use.

Role Purpose

Guide the planning, decisions, and actions required to establish a successful manufacturing solution in innovation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an equal partner with Commercial, Division Engineering & Technology to create a shared understanding of the program, business case and related core assumptions. Collaborate across roles & responsibilities with shared objectives, metrics and deliverables.
• Develop manufacturing end state view with regards to Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.
• Define and deliver technical readiness ensuring a manufacturing ready solution is being implemented and a strategy to achieve desired end state is communicated. 
• Work with program leads to ensure workstreams address all manufacturing needs required to achieve operational readiness (Safety, Manufacturing systems, Lean, staffing, PQA, Process Understanding and Control, Materials, etc).
• Define and deliver Operational readiness required to deliver products and services to the customer.  This includes implementing business processes/systems that enable accurate and timely information flow and material/product flow through the manufacturing system and value chain.
• Define and Implement targets and real time metrics that link individual performance to program metrics.
• Develop appropriate start-up plans, pilot operations, and/or subsequent scale up plans that can provide what the customer wants, when they want it, recognizing changes in scale may require changes to process, manufacturing systems, or locations.  Integrate detail from Plan of Record to recognize product generational changes over time.
• Evaluate product and process ramp against target performance and identify gaps.
• Ensure high-volume scale-up operations can comply with Achieving Manufacturing Excellence Level 1 criteria.

Experiences/Education - Required

• B.S. in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical/Controls, Materials, or equivalent)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Manufacturing leadership 
• Experience with project management
• Experiencing working effectively on all levels of an organization
• Understanding and application of Quality and Lean principles
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Ability to identify gaps and work across groups to identify solutions

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Master’s degree in engineering
• Operations Experience
• Knowledge of cable products, processes, and product flow.
• Six Sigma Greenbelt or Blackbelt certification.

 

 

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.  

 

The range for this position is $14