Manager of Plant Engineering

Android/Avancez•Harper Woods, MI

About The Position

The engineering manager leads the engineering team in delivering, supporting, and maintaining effective and efficient production processes, while ensuring compliance with customer engineering requirements and specifications. The role identifies leading indicators for manufacturing processes, monitors them to drive improvement, assesses operational conditions, and removes barriers to stable performance. The manager oversees manufacturing engineering functions and supports process and equipment launch, engineering change management, maintenance, quality, safety, and continuous improvement. The role also manages engineering goals, risks, budgets, staffing, facility preparation, and assets, and works with cross-functional teams and colleagues across facilities to promote common methods and ongoing improvement. Minimal travel is required. Voltava describes itself as a global manufacturing and assembly partner with approximately 5,400 team members across 21 facilities worldwide. Its work includes module assembly and sequencing, contract manufacturing, supply chain, automation, and tooling and equipment design for customers in several sectors. The company emphasizes a people-focused, collaborative culture and states that it is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Strong organizational skills in a highly complex environment.
Technical competence across a wide variety of engineering areas.
Ability to work as part of a team and lead teams toward shared goals.
Ability to seek support from other facilities and headquarters resources.
Practical experience leading engineering systems and tasks, such as APQP, PFMEA, plant layout, tooling and equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance.
Proven leadership skills and experience mentoring and developing staff.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong computer skills and expert knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask.
Detail-oriented and highly organized.
Tact, a sense of urgency, and a focus on customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Evaluate launch gates for the buyoff and transfer of processes and equipment.
Develop engineering department and individual goals that support annual operations group goals.
Develop risk mitigation plans and work with key personnel and suppliers to identify critical risks proactively.
Build a high-performance culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and team member safety.
Manage the engineering budget, staffing, facility preparation, and relevant assets, as appropriate.
Support cross-functional commodity teams and promote continued improvement and common methods across global engineering teams.
Lead manufacturing engineering functions, including process and layout design, maintenance, systems and controls, Kaizen activities, quality support, ergonomics, and safety.
Regularly review maintenance objectives and ensure performance against targets and improvement goals.
Ensure gage maintenance and calibrations are completed, along with other requirements.
Ensure the Engineering Change process is followed and used to plan and prepare for changes.
Develop leading indicators for each process to support proactive monitoring.
Perform other duties as assigned.