Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Blackline Safety (TSXV: BLN) is a wireless location leader that develops, manufactures, and markets products and services for worker safety monitoring. Blackline solutions deliver safety, security, and location awareness through innovative hardware and custom user interfaces, including mobile, messaging, and web services. Blackline's vision is to become the leading supplier of wirelessly connected worker safety monitoring products in the world. 

Job Summary 

The Manager, Manufacturing Engineering will play a key part in driving and leading operational improvements as Blackline Safety expands, providing local leadership to implement and maintain the operational gains achieved through continuous improvement, and in accelerating continuous improvement projects. Reporting to the Director, Manufacturing Engineering, you will coordinate the local Manufacturing Process, Manufacturing Test, and Manufacturing Repair teams. The Manager, Manufacturing Engineering is responsible for ensuring the factory is technically capable of on-time, on-cost, on-quality delivery of product. They will engage cross-functionally with all aspects of local manufacturing, from incoming materials all the way though manufacturing and service, and will work with multiple disciplines focused on the daily productivity, quality, and capacity improvement activities required to sustain rapid growth and support localization of new products.

Who are you? 

• You are highly motivated, independent, big-picture but attentive to details, and have a disciplined, collaborative approach to problem-solving 

• You have a strong history of manufacturing successes in your 10+ years of experience in leading engineering support teams in electronics manufacturing, built on your Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Electrical Engineering degree
• You thrive working on multiple tasks simultaneously and easily manage quickly changing priorities in a fast-moving, high-growth environment

• You are able to quickly and effectively prioritize activities for a team of engineers and technicians, making decisive decisions in uncertain situations and driving fast delivery of transformative results, while always keeping the team focused on product quality
• You are data-driven and excel at finding patterns across multiple data sources 

• You have strong interpersonal skills and can cross functional boundaries to rapidly find solutions to complex problems 

• You have high standards and motivate others to strive to meet them, with a customer-centric approach 

• You are hands-on and prepared to get involved with all aspects of operations with a can-do attitude and collaborative spirit 

Responsibilities 

• Lead and develop cross-functional team with matrix reporting structure responsible for factory manufacturing capacity, yield, and productivity, and act as a champion for continuous improvement activities 

• Engage with Product Development, Quality, and other disciplines to ensure root-cause analyses and resolution of issues in product or process are completed 

• Lead initiatives to bring in new technologies and oversee capital projects to deliver gains in productivity, capacity, efficiency, and quality 

• Support manufacturing readiness and required technical staffing needs for localization of new product introduction launches

• Drive standardization and improvement in cross-site manufacturing process and capabilities

• Manage development of documentation, procedures, and processes to standardize and improve manufacturing operations, and champion development of change management structure 

• Create new organizational structures and policies to develop organizational maturity and support organizational development initiatives 

• Oversee and coordinate development, maintenance, and improvements to existing product manufacturing methods, equipment, software, and documentation 

• Investigate and find root cause of product test failures and drive resolution to improve product yield, quality, and throughput 

Required skills 

• Exceptional understanding of modern circuit board assembly test methodologies 

• Proven success in leadership roles in manufacturing test development and operations project management 

• Thorough knowledge of electronics and assembly industry best-practices 

• Ability to rapidly prioritize and balance conflicting priorities 

• Exceptional ability to communicate in English, verbally and in writing 

• Demonstrated success leading Lean Manufacturing kaizen p