Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities

· Mentoring Engineering and Production Teams with technical knowledge and experience

· Provides technical information to the Tooling Engineering Department for new tool builds that will be moving to Production

· Manages and facilitates customer requirements for validation activities

· May handle some technical project management interactions/meetings with customers

· Identifies constraints in production processes and systems

· Proposes viable manufacturing solutions such as replacement, repair or additions to processes or equipment, including feasibility and costs

· Manages the effective and efficient implementation of improvement processes.

· Participates in planning capital expenditures and reserve for contingencies

· Provides material specifications for Quality Assurance/Control measures

· Provides technical standards and support for incoming inspection procedures

· Coordinates the resources of the Engineering department with the Quality Assurance/Control Department in the investigation of quality-related problems

· Researches and provides technical engineering information and support in the design, implementation and monitoring of quality-related solutions.

· Ensures safety requirements/regulations are maintained with manufacturing changes, modifications or improvements or projects. Ensures safety assessments of new job tasks are conducted to remove possible hazards to employees.

· Designs, implements, and maintains technical document communications systems.

· Develops and delivers presentations from an engineering perspective

· Creates and communicates production piece price quotes

Required Qualifications

• Experience:

  · Minimum five years supervisory or management experience.

  · Minimum twelve years’ experience in ISO medium or high-volume high-tech

  contract manufacturing

  · Direct involvement in development and implementation of new products,

  manufacturing processes and equipment, as well as manual assembly operations.

  · Product development and launch experience

• Knowledge:

  · Strong working knowledge of ISO9000 and/or ISO13485.

  · Mold Tooling / CNC Machining / Swiss Machining backgrounds would be an asset

  · ANSI drawing standards and GD&T knowledge would be an asset

• Skills:

  · Good training and presentation skills.

  · Strong verbal, written communication, and report writing skills

  · Strong management and mentoring skills.

  · Excellent organizational skills.

  · High attention to detail

  · Strong ability to adapt

• Abilities:

  · Demonstrated ability to employ modern analytical methods

  · Demonstrated ability to prepare and deliver technical presentations

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to provide technical assistance in the identification of new products, processes and technologies 
• Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt Experience 
• Supervisory experience
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word & Projects.