Manager Manufacturing & Process Development Engineering

Why you should join

Responsible to support and execute new product development and manufacturing strategies and drive cost savings through manufacturing process innovation.  This includes supporting team decisions on manufacturing location, make versus buy, vendor strategy, and ensures continuous improvements working closely with other SVs and BUs operations and Corporate Manufacturing Excellence resources.  Creating product and manufacturing platforms to optimize return on capital investment and align capital assets near to the point of consumption will also be a focus. 

Your main tasks

Strategy
-Develop best demonstrated flexible manufacturing processes to support the needs for Din Rail products and share across Industrial and TE business units 
-Develop Manufacturing Technology Road Map in alignment with plants in PRS Footprint 

Execution 
- Lead a global team of manufacturing and process development engineers in the support of Din Rail new product and sustaining engineering efforts 
- Work closely with New Product Development and Sustaining Engineers early in the development process to identify and address design for manufacturability challenges 
- Support manufacturing cost and capital quoting efforts for the PMO org. in the creation of P&L detail 
- Support the manufacturing footprint strategies by product groupings in strong coordination with operations and considering point of consumption 
- Coordinate efforts with operations to maintain plant utilization and platforming efforts 
- Drive compliance with raw material platforming and sustainability (ex : resins , metals,….) 
- Drive cost out and productivity savings through support of Sustaining Engineering VAVE 
- Support Development Eng. for prototyping efforts to support product validation testing and minimize production tooling conditioning  
- Ensure all internal capital asset tracking systems, i.e. TLM, are up to date and accurately documented for assets the manufacturing development team is responsible for 
- Ensure all tooling designs for new products at time of launch are available and up to current revision regardless of internal or external production location and saved in PDM Link 
- Ensure effective and efficient work execution by employees 
- Management of departmental Opex/Capex budget  
- Coordinate with PjM to define and ensure follow up of projects Capex 

Talent 
-Develop and maintain succession plan for MDE Manager 
-Develop talents for MDE organization (development plans) 
-Management of departmental G&Os, regular conversations with purpose, and year end evaluation processes 

Your ideal background

-Minimum of 10 years’ experience within a Manufacturing / Engineering environment with project responsibilities associated with process, costing, and/or project management 
-Minimum 3 years’ experience in an operations environment is required 
-A professional level of business acumen 
-A good understanding of manufacturing processes combined with good technical awareness 
Previous exposure to TE Connectivity processes and structures would be a benefit  
Optimally to have a deep and broad knowledge of TE Connectivity’s manufacturing technologies and the product portfolios they support is beneficial 
Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and communication skills  
Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continues improvement attitude 
Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task  
Ability to work in a matrix environment with multi-cultural teams 
Ability to form strong Teams and demonstrate strong leadership skills 
Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends  
Specialized and profound knowledge in electronics, physics, mechanics and plastics 
Strong ability to take decisions 
Statistical knowledge (Six Sigma, SPC, MSA, AIAG and other statistical standards) 
Good communication and presentation skills 
Good English knowledge, verbal and in writing (also for presenting)  
Green / black Belt (good to have) 

Competencies