Production-Manufacturing Engineering Leader

NOVARES•Walworth, WI

About The Position

This role involves two main levels of responsibility. Level 1 focuses on analyzing and optimizing existing manufacturing processes to improve performance in terms of security, quality, cost, time, and environment, as well as training personnel. Level 2 involves integrating and launching new processes within the plant, meeting technical and economic objectives, and supporting the Launch Leader in new product development. The main missions include training personnel in processes and skills, ensuring the productivity of existing processes/products, managing technical databases, defining and writing procedures, designing production line layouts, creating and validating time sequences, optimizing processes during the project phase, providing technical input for improvements, maintaining tooling and equipment, ensuring equipment reliability, proposing innovative technical solutions, managing process modifications, negotiating with external providers, validating inspection means, defining and optimizing packaging, ensuring workstation ergonomics, troubleshooting quality problems, using time analysis and SMED for optimization, and applying production standards. For Level 2, responsibilities include coordinating the integration of new products/processes, defining and implementing necessary plant means, participating in project meetings and FMECA processes, leading FMECA working groups, supporting PFMEA, validating specifications for specific means, producing capacity specification means, launching calls for tender, monitoring suppliers, receiving and validating new resources, initializing CAM technical data creation, creating process adjustment sheets, programming specific equipment, conducting CCV/VSM, performing flow and layout studies, conducting station and time studies, compiling manufacturing files, starting production of new products, and detecting and resolving incidents.

Requirements

Strong work experience in machine qualification including calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability and reproducibility
Able to communicate effectively in a worldwide environment

Responsibilities

Train relevant personnel in processes and ensure the deployment and capitalisation of technical skills at the site
Train and support relevant personnel in work methodologies, operating processes and tools
Make the necessary decisions to optimise results, in line with initial data
Ensure the productivity of existing processes/products
Manage the technical database
Define and Write the procedures for new means and processes.
Define the production line Layouts. Create and validate the Time Sequences.
Help to develop the process during the project phase, 'in production' and optimise it
Provide technical input for processes and workstations to make technical improvements
Schedule and maintain or organise the maintenance of tooling, assembly machines and the product
Make production equipment reliable to improve the quality, safety, etc. of existing means
Propose innovative technical solutions concerning manufacturing processes in order to reach productivity, quality improvement and safety objectives and to reduce running time
Cost, carry out and validate the 'in production' modifications for the plant processes
Negotiate with any external service providers
Validate the implementation in the field of inspection means
Define and validate the Work In Process (Forklifts, suspended or other, etc.)
Define and validate the substitution packaging
Optimise existing packaging
Ensure compliance with workstation ergonomics rules
Troubleshoot to solve quality problems
Technically solve problems to eliminate 'quality obstacles'
Use time analysis and SMED to optimise processes.
Apply the Production standards.
Coordinate the integration of new products / processes on the site for which he is assigned.
Help to define the necessary Plant means and coordinate their implementation to acquire the necessary skills locally
Attend Project meetings and assist with the FMECA Process with the project group.
Is able to lead a Process and/or means FMECA working group.
Support/participate in the definition of CS process during the PFMEA
Participate in and validate the writing of the Specifications for the Specific means on the site.
Produce the Specification Capacity means.
Launch calls for tender and consultations for Capacity and Plant means
Monitor suppliers
Receive and validate the acceptance and the development of new resources.
Initialise the creation of CAM technical data (Parts, Parts lists, Instruction sheets)
Create process adjustment sheets (parameters) and associated documents
Carry out the programming required to operate specific equipment
Carry out CCV / VSM for new projects
Conduct flow and layout studies.
Conduct station and time studies (time usage rules) and draw up documentation in compliance with quality requirements
Compile the manufacturing file: procedure, operation sequence diagram, man-machine activity chart, instruction sheets, lists, manufacturing charts
Start the production of new products. Run rate ...
Detect incidents and implement adapted action plans to solve problems.