Description
This role is responsible for taking a leadership position within functional project teams, collaborating with stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle, and performing solution design, capacity modelling, validation, and manufacturing.
The role provides essential feedback on compliance and ensures product quality and risk mitigation. The role applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues, offer expertise, drive innovation, and provides guidance across cross-organizational projects.
Responsibilities
- Leads MFO manufacturing and engineering operations strategy across multiple complex product lines, with accountability for quality, cost, delivery, safety, compliance, inventory, CAPEX, and workforce engagement.
- Leads senior individual contributors and first-level managers across manufacturing and engineering functions, providing performance leadership, coaching, talent development, resource planning, and organizational capability building.
- Ensures products and manufacturing services consistently meet quality, reliability, delivery, and performance requirements, establishing and tracking key operational metrics and driving timely corrective actions.
- Partners with business and functional leaders to shape strategic and operational decisions, aligning manufacturing priorities with business objectives, customer requirements, and supply-chain needs.
- Drives continuous improvement, productivity, operational efficiency, cost optimization, and manufacturing excellence, identifying systemic issues and implementing sustainable solutions.
- Provides strategic manufacturing and engineering leadership across internal operations and external manufacturing partners, leading complex cross-functional and cross-regional initiatives with global supply-chain impact.
- Leads medium- to high-complexity local and global programs, including resource planning, financial management, budgets, forecasts, CAPEX, risk management, and execution governance.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and outsourced manufacturing partners while proactively managing business risks, operational issues, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Provides domain expertise and executive-level manufacturing perspectives to cross-organizational programs, exercising independent judgment in resolving complex business and operational challenges.
- Drive adoption and integration of new manufacturing technologies, strengthening engineering capability, productivity, product quality, and long-term manufacturing competitiveness.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineering and operations teams, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Supports business-critical operational and project priorities through appropriate off-hour engagement and domestic/international travel may require.
Education & Experience Recommended
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in engineering & manufacturing, design and solutions, or a related field.
Knowledge & Skills
- Automation
- Data Analysis
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Management
- Lean Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- New Product Development
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Tooling
Cross-Org Skills
- Effective Communication
- Results Orientation
- Learning Agility
- Digital Fluency
- Customer Centricity