Manager Manufacturing Engineering

Vertiv is looking for a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to oversee the development and implementation of efficient and optimized manufacturing processes and systems for a growing organization. This role focuses on driving continuous improvement, material management, enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and ensuring quality and safety within manufacturing operations. The right person for the job will collaborate with various departments, utilize engineering principles and methodologies, and manage resources to achieve organizational goals and manage projects to completion. This is an onsite role in Franklin Furnace, OH.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Departmental Leadership: Lead the Manufacturing Engineering department, including setting goals, prioritizing projects, resolving issues, and communicating performance expectations and results. Select, develop and manage industrial engineering staff.
• Data & Bottleneck Management: Manage all Manufacturing Execution System (MES) data for production routes, including material flow, operations, tooling, data collection, and operating instructions. Identify and optimize critical constraints in the fabrication departments and final assemblies to enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and throughput. Implementation of PFEP (Plan for Every Part).
• Capacity Modeling: Develop and maintain a model that forecasts manufacturing resource levels (e.g., equipment and labor) based on demand, generating short-term and long-term scenarios. Utilize this model to pinpoint capacity improvement needs, prioritize actions, and track progress. Establish and maintain manufacturing process time standards used in product costing, production measurement, and capacity planning models.
• Manufacturing Layout Planning: Support the overall design and development of cleanroom layouts to ensure optimal use of space, efficient logistics, and smooth workflow.
• Reporting: Establish key operational metrics and reporting mechanisms to communicate performance and identify critical constraints. Highlight and optimize critical bottlenecks and constraints within the production process.
• Production Scheduling: Monitor, enhance and optimize dispatching algorithms to ensure efficient resource allocation, line balancing, and on-time lot delivery. Knowledge of FPS scheduler is beneficial.
• Professional Development: Stay updated on current industrial engineering processes and methodologies through professional publications and assess their applicability to the organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to reduce waste and implement "Smart Manufacturing" transformation strategies. Identify opportunities to reduce speed or throughput losses and work with process or tool owner to optimize.
• Other Duties: Perform additional tasks and responsibilities as required to support departmental and organizational goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or a related field
• 5-10 years of experience in an industrial engineering role
• 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
• Expertise in lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles is desired
• Knowledge of SQL or other computer languages to aid data mining
• Demonstrated experience in implementing process improvements and achieving efficiency gains
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision making
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

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