International Manufacturing Manager

Drive global manufacturing performance improvement through equipment, process engineering, and product engineering collaboration.

Essential Functions:

Manufacturing Process Leadership –

• Lead technical process improvement and troubleshooting support on metal and plastic fabrication processes.
• Increase productivity as measured by process KPIs.
• Refine and drive alignment on manufacturing process standards (GOS)
• Coach manufacturing engineering teams for development.

Production Equipment Strategy -

• Manage fleet of manufacturing equipment and drive improvement plans.
• Maintain and update global proprietary machine design drawing catalog.
• Lead global machine maintenance strategy with systems to improve asset availability.
• Review and support new capital equipment business case development.

Product Engineering Collaboration -

• Provide recommendations for product development engineers (Design for Manufacturability).

Operations support and technical expertise –

• Introduce new advances in manufacturing equipment and tooling.
• Assess overall operations performance and drive improvement actions.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Maintains knowledge of shop floor operations, product mix and characteristics, and general business processing requirements.
• Accommodate occasional requests for support outside of essential functions listed above as required to support business objectives.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education:

• B.S. Degree in Engineering.

• Required Experience:
• Minimum of ten years of experience in manufacturing process engineering.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing technology and processing methods.
• Minimum of five years of project management experience.
• Experience in at least 2 of the following skillsets: Stamping, Forging, CNC Machining, Casting, or Plastic Injection Molding.

• Computer Skills:
• Ability to use a computer and applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Maintain familiarity with manufacturing, inventory control, and costing software applications.

Travel Requirements:

30% (ability to travel internationally to all of our locations is required)

Other Qualifications/Requirements or Skills:

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong skills in interacting with and communicating with people are essential.
• Proven ability to simultaneously handle a wide assortment of projects involving several departments and locations is important.
• Excellent organizational skills required.
• Strong project management and follow-up is essential.
• Must possess mobility to work in a standard plant and office setting and to use standard office. equipment, including computer, stamina to maintain attention to detail despite interruptions, strength to lift and carry objects weighing up to 40 pounds; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone.