Head of Manufacturing Engineering

Your tasks
- The mission of the position is to plan, coordinate and control all manufacturing engineering activities in order to meet budget and production targets (e.g. maximize production equipment availability and utilization, and reduce waste such as scrap and lead time). Furthermore, the Manufacturing Engineering Manager initiates and implements action plans for continuous improvement of all manufacturing engineering relevant processes.
- manage and coordinate the manufacturing engineering function of the plant/operations unit
- translate plant/operations unit’s manufacturing engineering strategy into action plans and ensure implementation
- contribute to strategic and operative planning of the plant/operations unit (e.g. with respect to investments, capacity, and headcount planning)
- ensure the achievement of manufacturing engineering targets according to internal and external customer expectations
- interface to segment, BU or division functions in order to gather local manufacturing engineering requirements (e.g. ESH and ergonomics) and demands and other feedback
- participate in and/or steer global or local manufacturing engineering-related and cross-functional projects
- conduct employee dialogues, personnel development, and coaching
- prepare, review, and manage the budget and forecast of manufacturing engineering cost centers
- ensure timely submission of financial data to controlling
- implement and conduct activities according to the budget established
- ensure that the financial goals are met
- design and implement overall (cross product) factory processes e.g. by definition of production concept (e.g. line vs. job shop organization), design of plant/operations unit layout (e.g. factory, workplace), factory simulation (e.g. manufacturing and logistics processes, ergonomics, etc.) or product cost calculation according to lean principles and standards
- align with Product and Process Industrialization (PPI) to realize process changes and industrializations of new product specifications
- define standard operation sheet, work combination table and (standard work instruction) job instruction sheet including standard times (e.g. by time studies) based on work instructions and according to standards
- ensure the installation, start-up, validation and handover (to production) and improvement of all production and supply chain equipment as well as tools (incl. tool management) and devices according to production control plans and standards
- design and implement production and supply chain equipment IT (i.e. software as e.g. PLC, MDA, MES, etc. and hardware as e.g. IPCs, control boxes, etc.; also Industry 4.0) according to standards and in in cooperation with plant supply chain
- plan and implement maintenance of production and SC equipment and production and SC equipment IT (mechanical, electrical, IT) as well as of building internal equipment and infrastructure according to standards (e.g. TPM)
- ensure the availability of qualified employees for the manufacturing engineering function in cooperation with plant HR
- initiate and control the continuous qualification of manufacturing engineering employees in cooperation with plant HR
- ensure production performance (KPI) monitoring and reporting (e.g. regarding cost, lead time, quality, scrap, waste, energy, OEE, etc.) in cooperation with plant controlling
- ensure manufacturing engineering performance (KPI) monitoring (e.g. regarding cost, lead time, quality of manufacturing engineering activities such as equipment installation projects)
- initiate and control measures to improve production as well as manufacturing engineering performance
- ensure local implementation of central manufacturing engineering standards
- provide feedback and input for further development of standards regarding manufacturing engineering and production processes (e.g. production flow plan, production control plan, work instructions, standardized work chart, standardized work combination table, job instruction sheet, process parameters, materials), production equipment (e.g. machines, human machine interface, ergonomics, equipment, layout), logistics (e.g. material handling and storage technologies) and quality (e.g. test methods, equipment) to segment, BU or divisional functions

**Profile**:

- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years experience in similar position
- Manufacturing related technologies, systems, infrastructures, standards and processes
- Manufacturing engineering systems and methods (e.g. REFA, MES, TPM)
- Quality management (including quality policies, systems and processes)
- Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques
- Lean production/CBS principles, methods and tools
- Management skills, tools and techniques (e.g. balanced scorecard, benchmarking)
- Human relations skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking, moderation and negotiation)
- Project management skills, tools and techniques
- IATF 16949 standard / Mastery and u