Head of Manufacturing Engineering

About You and The Role

As the Head of Manufacturing Engineering you will lead the effort to scale our inhouse manufacturing capabilities while continuously developing new processes to support design changes and new internal builds. Youll leverage your deep technical expertise to understand core design requirements and ensure they are consistently met during assembly. This role is highly crossfunctional involving close collaboration with design engineers supplier industrial engineers operations program managers quality engineers maintenance engineers and manufacturing technicians.

As the ultimate owner of all inhouse manufacturing your team will be responsible for developing and validating all manufacturing processes designing and modifying line layouts and managing equipment design and fabrication. Your first major initiative will focus on developing multiple new manufacturing lines along with the supporting processes and equipment to bring inhouse production of complex electromechanical subassemblies that feed into our toplevel systems.

You are a seasoned manufacturing engineer with a strong track record of developing production lines from early prototypes to fully scaled (and potentially highly automated) manufacturing. You have a deep understanding of failure modes that can impact highvolume production and you proactively design processes to detect or prevent issues before they arise. With a solid grasp of both manufacturing limitations and capabilities you propose design solutions that are efficient to produce and easy to inspect.

You take a critical and unbiased approach to process evaluation distinguishing between what must be fixed and what would be nice to fix. You raise design and process concerns with humility creating a collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to share ideas. As an experienced mentor you are a trusted technical leadersharing best practices reviewing designs and supporting the development of junior team members.

What Youll Do

As the Head of Manufacturing Engineering you will lead the effort to scale our inhouse manufacturing capabilities while continuously developing new processes to support design changes and new internal builds. Youll leverage your deep technical expertise to understand core design requirements and ensure they are consistently met during assembly. This role is highly crossfunctional involving close collaboration with design engineers supplier industrial engineers operations program managers quality engineers maintenance engineers and manufacturing technicians.

As the ultimate owner of all inhouse manufacturing your team will be responsible for developing and validating all manufacturing processes designing and modifying line layouts and managing equipment design and fabrication. Your first major initiative will focus on developing multiple new manufacturing lines along with the supporting processes and equipment to bring inhouse production of complex electromechanical subassemblies that feed into our toplevel systems.

You are a seasoned manufacturing engineer with a strong track record of developing production lines from early prototypes to fully scaled (and potentially highly automated) manufacturing. You have a deep understanding of failure modes that can impact highvolume production and you proactively design processes to detect or prevent issues before they arise. With a solid grasp of both manufacturing limitations and capabilities you propose design solutions that are efficient to produce and easy to inspect.

You take a critical and unbiased approach to process evaluation distinguishing between what must be fixed and what would be nice to fix. You raise design and process concerns with humility creating a collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to share ideas. As an experienced mentor you are a trusted technical leadersharing best practices reviewing designs and supporting the development of junior team members.

What Youll Do

• Lead and develop a highperforming team of manufacturing engineers. Set a clear vision define ambitious goals and foster a culture of accountability innovation and technical excellence.
• Cultivate a performancedriven team culture that emphasizes a bias for action radical simplicity and the pursuit of reliable scalable manufacturing processes.
• Own the endtoend development of manufacturing capabilities including planning budgeting designing procuring commissioning and validating inhouse assembly lines and associated facilities and equipment.
• Define and implement manufacturing process documentation including process flows PFMEAs standard work instructions setup checklists training plans and control plans.
• Partner closely with design engineering teams to identify and drive designformanufacturability improvements that simplify assembly improve product quality and reduce cost.
• Provide expert technical support to production operations assisting with root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions for production issues.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for cost quality and deliveryincluding firstpass yield cycle time cost of poor quality and ontime delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across all manufacturing lines exploring automation vision systems and other innovations to eliminate waste reduce variability and increase throughput.
• Own capital planning and resource allocation for new production lines and facility upgrades to support increasing production demand and new product introductions.
• Develop rampup strategies and scalability plans to support production growthfrom lowrate initial builds to fullrate manufacturing and global deployment.
• Collaborate crossfunctionally with Supply Chain Quality Product Design Operations and Program Management to ensure alignment and execution across all phases of product lifecycle.

What Youll Bring

• Over 10 years of relevant experience designing and developing manufacturing lines proven track record of scaling something from the 10s of products per month to the 1000s of products per month.
• Over 3 years of direct experience with manufacturing engineering leadership ideally on complex electromechanical products.
• Exceptional ability to keep multiple projects moving forward in parallel.
• Experience with fixture and equipment design to produce 1000s of products per month.
• Demonstrated CAD fluency.
• Proven ability to solve challenging problems quickly and seamlessly.
• Handson experience with factory layout design process mapping and line balancing.
• Demonstrated core competencies GD&T PFMEA Process Development and Implementation.
• Experience with DFM/DFA principles and working closely with design engineers.
• Understanding of Traditional & NonTraditional Manufacturing & Assembly Processes such as Injection Molding Stamping Die Casting 3D Printing Fastening Welding Adhesive Joining etc.
• Excellent communication written verbal and visual. You know how to tailor to your audience with the right level of technical depth.
• Worked in a super fastpaced environment that is in a constant state of evolution.

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