Manufacturing Engineering Director

Celestica International LP • Richardson, TX

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About The Position

The Principle, Manufacturing Equipment & Process Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing processes and equipment for manufacturing to achieve quality cost and delivery goals for Celestica and its customer’s products.
Detailed DescriptionPerforms tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

Identify and manage all new customer-specific process and equipment development projects.

Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team, evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle. Support all manufacturing technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence.

Evaluate, optimize and negotiate tradeoffs for DFX issues with suppliers, customers, supply chain and equipment leaders to deliver a cost-optimized total manufacturing solution.

Evaluate potential manufacturing impacts affecting safety, cost, quality or delivery for each design concept.

Evaluate suppliers' capability and capacity to meet production schedule and cost targets

May also be considered the Subject Matter Expert in the company for specific sub-sector(s) of manufacturing.

Develop best practice standards, participate in industry organizations for developing the standards and provide training and application support globally.

Requirements

• Project Management - Ability to lead high value, complex, multifunctional projects that involve accountability to executive management or directly to the customer. Ability to influence decision makers to ensure that the right financial and people resources are allocated to your project, while ensuring that project ROR is in the desired range. Able to consider non-conventional technical solutions and acquire external knowledge and best practices into the project.
• Leadership - Demonstrate "Executive Leadership Behaviors" as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives.
• Financial Acumen / Business Planning - Develop strategic plans on business unit or total company level to ensure all engineering work is financially viable and deliver the right ROI for the company. Engaged in developing billing and accounting methods for engineering work, participate in benchmarking, understand and apply best market practices to make engineering delivery financially attractive to our internal and external partners.
• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage all new customer-specific process and equipment development projects.
• Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team, evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle.
• Support all manufacturing technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence.
• Evaluate, optimize and negotiate tradeoffs for DFX issues with suppliers, customers, supply chain and equipment leaders to deliver a cost-optimized total manufacturing solution.
• Evaluate potential manufacturing impacts affecting safety, cost, quality or delivery for each design concept.
• Evaluate suppliers' capability and capacity to meet production schedule and cost targets
• May also be considered the Subject Matter Expert in the company for specific sub-sector(s) of manufacturing.
• Develop best practice standards, participate in industry organizations for developing the standards and provide training and application support globally.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees