Sr Engineering Manager

Job Summary

The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for oversee Automation Processing and Tooling functions within the site. Responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership across critical manufacturing technologies to ensure safe reliable and efficient production of highquality components and systems. This role oversees crossfunctional engineering teams who design optimize and support automated equipment molding and processing operations and precision tooling used throughout the facility. The manager acts as a key partner to Operations Quality and Supply Chain ensuring that engineering solutions align with business priorities regulatory requirements and longterm technology roadmaps.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and sustain a highperforming engineering organization by hiring strong talent fostering retention through engagement and development and shaping the team structure to support longterm business needs and future growth.
• Grow and develop engineering leadership through mentorship coaching learning and development opportunities and by providing regular and clear performance feedback.
• Plan and execute long term strategies that move your team and the product stage(s) toward business objectives. This includes decision-making alignment staffing prioritization leading through change and working through ambiguity.
• Understands key engineering KIPs and proactively drives improvements to enhance efficiency quality reliability and overall operational effectiveness.
• Leads and drives meaningful results across multiple engineering teams whose work directly influences the broader organizational mission. This includes managing several engineering groups with engineeringmanager direct reports overseeing complex product or program scopes and taking ownership of businesscritical crossfunctional initiatives in parallel with daytoday team leadership.
• Develop and execute process enhancements while strategically influencing leadership decisions across multiple organizational levels.
• Contributes to a strong safety culture across multiple teams by an environment where individuals feel supported and empowered to take initiative.
• Identify and resolve problems proactively through advanced thinking partnership and foresight.
• Prepares PERs and project justification documents while maintaining the sites capital expenditure forecast and ensuring accurate timely reporting for all capexrelated activities.
• Develops initial project scope timelines savings projections and cost estimates while partnering closely with the commercial team to define and fulfill customerspecific project requirements.
• Promotes and supports a Lean Manufacturing culture across the facility continually improving processes and procedures to ensure highquality products are produced efficiently and at the lowest sustainable cost.
• Ensures that all established policies rules regulations and standard procedures are consistently followed across teams and operations.
• Research emerging technologies and advanced methodologies to identify and implement solutions that enhance plant capabilities efficiency and longterm competitiveness.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support and contribute to Lean Sigma programs and activities towards delivery of the set target
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Must also be able to maintain confidentiality and resolve conflicts.
• Make independent and sound judgments.
• Multitask work under time constraints problem solve and prioritize.
• Excellent communicator with ability to maintain confidentiality and resolve conflicts and ambiguity.
• Use written and verbal communication skills effectively.
• Read and interpret data information and documents to analyze and solve problems.
• Learn and apply new information and new skills.
• Able to comply with the companys safety policy at all times
• Able to comply with the companys quality policy at all times.

Education

• Education: Bachelors or Masterss in Engineering; Plastics and Polymers Manufacturing Automation Machine Tool Technology or equivalent.

Work Experience

• Experience: 10 years of job-related experience; 5 years of senior level management; 5 years in Project Management
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes workflows production equipment and industrial techniques.
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of Lean and 6 Sigma Manufacturing

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to assert technical solutions and standards in an international environment.
• Ability to collaborate well with people across different countries
• Self-motivated results and solution-oriented personality
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong ability to lead a team to get positive results.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with written and oral skills make quick decisions interpret data read & write speak in front of groups express & exchange ideas understand direction and adhere to procedures
• Organizational skills will enable planning prioritization & achievement of goals especially of importance for the successful execution of related activities.

Travel Requirements

Physical Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Comfortable working in a manufacturing environment.
• Specific vision abilities may be needed by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Make independent and sound judgments.