Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

ZEISS•Dublin, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The XRM Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Engineering manages all aspects related to the product quality and business process excellence development. This role involves consulting with the Management team and employees to ensure processes are developed, implemented, realized, and sustained. It also requires periodic review of applicable laws, regulations, and standards for compliance, and control of local process documents and records. The position coordinates the continuous improvement process (CIP) at XRM and has escalation duties to the General Manager and RMS Board in case of deviations. The role works with project engineering to ensure reliability and maintainability of new and modified products, collaborates on acceptance tests and inspection criteria, and develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other issues affecting plant operations (capacity, quality, cost, regulatory compliance). It also coordinates supplier management, guides efforts for equipment and system reliability, provides input to risk management plans, offers technical support to production and maintenance, and applies value analysis to repair/replace and make/buy decisions. The role analyzes existing business processes with owners to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities, supports the development of methods and procedures, and understands business processes in detail to advise and train cross-functional teams. It leads cross-functional team meetings focused on process improvement, creates business process flows and activity diagrams using value stream mapping, defines process metrics and goals, measures process performance, and establishes training for processes throughout the organization. The role also supports the development of project plans for process improvement teams and shepherds the methodology, assists users, and ensures continued use and improvement of processes. Data analysis techniques applied include Statistical Process Control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis, Six Sigma, Lean & PDCA, root cause failure analysis (RDFA/FMEA/5WHY/FISHBONE/8D, etc.), and failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action systems (FRACAS).

Requirements

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Engineering/Quality/Mathematics
7 + yrs. experience in industry
Experience with Quality Management systems
Experience with quality control methodologies and tools (JMP)
Lean & Six Sigma knowledge
Experience with audits
Evidence for structure and reliable work habits
Excellent communication skills.
A leader who develops leaders

Responsibilities

Consulting with the Management team and the employees to ensure all processes, which are an essential part of the management system are developed, implemented, realized and sustained.
Periodically review applicable laws, regulations, and standards to ensure continued compliance.
Control of documents and records of local processes (participation to approval, release management thru ECO process, communication of approved documents, administration of process information center.)
Coordination of the continuous improvement process (CIP) at XRM.
Duty and right for escalation to the General Manager and to the Management of the Research Microscopy Solutions (RMS) Board in case of deviations on the products and processes.
Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified products.
Collaborates in the development of acceptance tests and inspection criteria and procedures with project and systems engineering.
Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. The problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
Coordinate supplier management process with the purchasing department to ensure qualified suppliers are selected, approved, and monitored.
Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.
Analyze existing business processes together with business process owners to evaluate current capabilities and identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
Support the development of detailed methods and procedures and job aids for new processes
Understand business processes in detail, be willing & able to advise and train cross functional teams.
Leading cross functional team meetings with focus on the process improvement.
Create business process flows and activity diagrams utilizing value stream mapping tools
Define process metrics and performance goals together with business process owners.
Measure the performance of new processes and systems through metrics collection and analysis
Establishing training of processes and sub processes throughout the organization.
Support the development project plans to track the deliverables of process improvement teams across functions and initiatives
Shepherds the methodology, assist process users, and ensures continued use and improvement of the process.
Applies Data Analysis techniques that can include: Statistical Process Control, Reliability modeling and prediction, Fault tree analysis, Six Sigma, Lean & PDCA, Root cause failure analysis (RDFA/FMEA/5WHY/FISHBONE/8D, ETC), Failure reporting, analysis and corrective action systems (FRACAS).