Production Engineering Manager

Job Description

-Responsible for people management and career development activities including recruiting, onboarding, training, mentoring, coaching, and performance evaluation.

-Develop and maintain department Target Annual Plan (TAP).

-Drive business cases development and support project leads in Configuration Control Board meetings.

-Represent and support Production Engineering teams in progress reviews and cross-sector meetings.

-Responsible for leading production engineering to support development engineers to converge on an overall design solution that addresses comprehensive production manufacturability with high level of diagnostics for troubleshooting.

-Responsible for leading production engineering group developing and maintaining module manufacturing processes.

-Responsible for leading production engineering group investigating technical issues both analytically using design documentation and physically with hands-on in a production environment.

-Responsible for leading production engineering group supporting operations to deliver modules on time that meet high standards of quality.

-Report production status, issues, gaps and barriers to Sr. Management. Timely escalate in case of issue that can’t be solved within the own circle of influence.

-Drive cross-sector teams to achieve high standards of quality for both product and tooling.

Education

Minimum BS in Engineering with MS or MBA preferred, or equivalent experience.

Experience

-Minimum 10 years of experience developing manufacturing processes for new products, including at least 5 years leading a group or a major project.

-Experience in developing Manufacturing readiness plans to introduce new products into Production.

-Experience in leading cross-sector teams to implement Manufacturing readiness plans for new product industrialization.

-Experience in developing budgetary needs for facilities, capital equipment and headcount.

-Experience in managing new product introduction and industrialization.

-Background in optical engineering is preferred.

-Background in opto-mechanical metrology equipment/interface to data acquisition is preferred.