Product Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Arconic is currently in search of a Product Manufacturing Engineer Manager to join our Business Unit/Team in Springdale, Arkansas.  
  At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities, and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.

• Category: Engineering, Skilled Labor - Trades
• Employee Type: Full-Time
• Location: Springdale, AR / Bloomsburg, PA / Cranberry, PA
• Experience: 10+ Years
• Travel:75%

 

Description

Kawneer's architectural systems businesses operate in the U.S., Canada, UK, France,  and the Netherlands. The product range includes windows and doors, curtain wall systems, railings, shutters and conservatories, all engineered to work together to produce a wide-variety of standard and custom facades.

We are committed to innovative and creative product design. Our products can meet the most exacting engineering and technical standards while overcoming sophisticated design challenges. Kawneer's design expertise, combined with aluminum's flexibility and recyclability, makes our architectural systems and products the right solutions for today and tomorrow.

Primary Purpose of the job:

• Leading all technical aspects of Manufacturing implementation of new products and equipment modernizations required to deliver the new product development road maps for the company including research and development of OEM equipment to expand capabilities. 

Major activities / key challenges: 

• Lead the manufacturing execution of the new product timelines and execution of actions to those timelines through direct action and influence within manufacturing organization.
• Understanding of complete Kawneer Product Library, Utilization, and manufacturing methods for each distinct product line.
• Lead the manufacturing execution of the product development road map creation and stage gate process through direct action and influence. 
• Constantly learning and researching the most modern manufacturing techniques within the Building and Construction Industry.
• Ability to utilize conceptual designs to envision and estimate manufacturing requirements in order to develop detailed manufacturing timelines to ensure product production on time and at rate within manufacturing. 
• Expand CAD/CAM and 3D architecture for all new products within manufacturing organizations including all manufacturing plans and drawings are developed in coordination with new product development. 
• Evaluating the ability to manufacture internal vs external and to develop vendor capabilities and relationships to produce products outside of current internal manufacturing capabilities.
• Support and suggest design constraints/cost to the new product development team to optimize and continuously improve product development.
• Coordinate the manufacturing launch of new/revised products and components including establishing goals, developing documentations, training team members, and evaluating results.
• Perform product/process analysis for cost reduction, quality improvement, and improved efficiency with modifications in product design.
• Ability to design experiments capable of evaluating new product capability assessment within tolerance and at production rate
• Management of EC and Change Management approvals within manufacturing organization.
• DOE and Root Cause analysis driven on manufacturing variations to product design to drive execution of on time product launches within manufacturing.
• Strategic Analysis of equipment capability matrix vs product road map to drive strategic capital investment.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering or technical field plus 10 years of work experience in a manufacturing or related field with working knowledge product design and statistical processing. 
• Self-motivated, with strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Possess the ability to communicate effectively (written/verbal), maintain positive working relationships, and co