KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES
Motor Manufacturing NPD Project Management:
Attend/ promote NPD meetings, co- lead with the Operations Team to develop and maintain manufacturing action plans for new tooling, equipment, and production scheduling needs.
Ensure proper management of suppliers of capital equipment for turn- key applications/custom equipment. Ensure proper management of cost, timing and budget of each project.
Ensure proper delivery of formal presentations to leadership regarding project status.
Coordinate/ drive NPD builds with follow- up actions, including but not limited to Engineering Builds, Qualification Builds, and Pilot builds.
Ensure proper development of Gantt Charts, Project Schedule, Risk Assessment, and Contingency Plans.
Create/ empower collaborative project communication channels with NPD, Engineering, Manufacturing, Production Scheduling, Quality, Supervision, and floor operators.
Ensure proper agendas to facilitate and document project meetings.
Manufacturing Engineering Development
Ensure proper implementation of with GD&T, Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, and Control Plans.
Commit to/ drive major strategic cost, quality and delivery initiatives with aggressive focus on breakthrough process and technology improvements to achieve a substantial competitive advantage.
Ensure proper management of equipment certification and run- off, using statistical analysis tools to verify process rate, capability and Gage R&R.
Engage in/ lead automation and innovation course through technology co- research and development as well as engineering co- test and deployment.
Have ability to conduct/ lead research, development, and implementation of new manufacturing processes and capital equipment to improve current throughput, scrap/rework reduction, reduce cost, improve quality and improve reliability.
Ensure proper development of tooling, fixtures, and gages design.
Assist with/ drive Continuous Improvement Projects in: Kaizen Activities, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, OEE, Work Instructions, Time Studies, Line Balancing, etc…
Have ability to work with/ lead prototypes to confirm manufacturing time/cost estimates and test proposed manufacturing processes.
Process Design Analysis and Continuous Improvement
Possess/ empower a systematic as well as creative approach to problem solving process.
Understand/ drive well financial impacts of problem and solution.
Exhibit/ empower vision and foresight to test process. extremes and build a robust risk assessment analysis matrix to ensure project success.
Provide/ empower multiple what- if scenarios to find best total cost solution
Ensure proper performance of a wide variety of calculations and software aided analysis.
Team Leading and People Development
Understand and promote leadership culture with appreciation of Milwaukee core values.
Promote AME engineer capabilities through identifying strengths, gaps and expectation as well as continually devoting in individual development, mentorship.
Assist in operational management and strategic activities, align personnel and team’s organizational chart planning to the company’s target picture
Assist in/ drive the team’s performance to committed KPIs and key objectives.