Manufacturing Reliability & Process Manager

Means Industries • Shelby Charter Township, MI

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About The Position

Amsted Automotive’s Transform division is seeking a Manufacturing Reliability & Process Manager to lead maintenance strategy, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives across its Sterling Heights and Shelby Township facilities. The role ensures that facilities, layouts, and manufacturing machinery operate at maximum efficiency and output by planning and managing capital use and improving processes and maintenance activities.

The manager oversees total preventative and predictive maintenance and supports plant Maintenance Managers with breakdowns involving mechanical, electrical, and robotic equipment. The position owns machine-level MES and E-maintenance systems and leads future predictive maintenance system implementations. It also manages capital projects and continuous improvement work, supports equipment start-ups and manufacturing systems, and helps ensure production controls and equipment software and hardware are maintained and backed up.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial or Manufacturing, or work-related equivalent.
• Eight to ten years of experience in engineering, maintenance, or related work.
• Experience in automotive management in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience with machine programming, integration of machine logic, and operator interfaces.
• Experience with Total Predictive Maintenance systems.
• Strong leadership skills, with demonstrated experience building teams and reorganizing teams for performance improvement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across all organizational levels.
• Working knowledge of IATF16949, ISO 14001, and Q1 compliance criteria.
• Elevated analytical ability to address complex problems.
• Ability to direct a workforce to complete projects on time and on budget.
• Strong mechanical aptitude.
• Blueprint-reading skills and familiarity with GD&T.
• Proactive and self-motivated, able to accomplish tasks with minimal instruction or guidance.
• High integrity and discretion when handling confidential, executive-level information.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business unit in creating and implementing maintenance best practices, strategies, policies, processes, and procedures to improve operational performance.
• Develop, participate in, and follow up on corrective, preventive, predictive, and TPM activities.
• Mentor, coach, and develop maintenance leaders across business unit facilities.
• Develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance schedule and ensure preventative maintenance is performed on large projects; plan maintenance activities to support division operations.
• Manage capital project budgets, proposals, scheduling, delivery, and installation, and plan multi-year maintenance schedules for key equipment.
• Prioritize maintenance and repairs of company equipment and parts, including root-cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Drive use of the E-Maint system to document equipment issues and develop plans to predict maintenance needs and mitigate machine downtime.
• Support AAG MES activities by owning machine-level connectivity and output at each plant and using the data to support equipment reliability.
• Develop engineered solutions to recurring equipment failures and reduce repairs and failure occurrences.
• Support new equipment start-up, including machine selection, tool and fixture design and procurement, launch schedules, capability assessments, and capacity reviews.
• Ensure equipment controls, PLCs, HMIs, servo drives, industrial computers, related software and hardware, and communications methods and protocols are working properly, up to date, and backed up to the main server and laptops.
• Manage business unit continuous improvement projects, providing employee support and outsourcing as required.
• Create, review, modify, and debug manufacturing systems for new and existing manufacturing and test equipment.
• Develop processes, methods, tooling, and production controls for innovative programs, and supervise assembly and proofing.
• Communicate and interface with management personnel and staff to meet productivity objectives.
• Support customer design efforts through full or partial product design.
• Adopt and promote lean manufacturing principles.
• Provide dotted-line direction to Transform Business Unit Maintenance Managers.
• Support the Company’s goals and objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager