Director of Manufacturing Engineering

Purpose Statement: Primarily responsible for providing technical leadership and execution of strategic initiatives across Test, Industrial, Process, Automation and/or Product Engineering disciplines. The Director of Manufacturing Engineering will have exclusive ownership driving improvements to stakeholder’s engineering needs. The role is responsible for managing the implementation and execution of engineering philosophies across the manufacturing operations while working directly with the Engineering Managers to ensure proper resources and skill levels are in place to support the voice of the customer and the process. The role will focus on ensuring there is cross functional alignment to provide engineering support and resolve customer issues. This role will also provide strategic vision to define technology roadmaps and technologies and support development, deployment and support plans.

Key Job Accountabilities:

• Characterize and control the critical operational standards and methods that enables quality, cost and delivery on the customer products. Lead best practices sharing and adoption within engineering operations. Lead process capability matrix relative to technology roadmap. Lead the execution of equipment installation, operational and performance qualification.
• Be the standard work subject matter expert for manufacturing operations. Ensure the processes, organizational capability and culture combine to consistently meet commitments to customers. Must be able to build collaborative relationships with internal and external customers. Lead the selection and development of standard work for specified processes and technologies.
• Create and monitor objectives, goals, strategies and measures for the engineering teams. Establish efficient processes and systems to track and report status of initiatives to include resources, projects, savings, etc. Lead development and adoption of process performance monitors to achieve takt time.
• Serve as primary escalation point for engineering activities to ensure that appropriate site, regional and corporate resources are appropriately leveraged. Manage issues to achieve root cause identification and regional deployment of systemic corrective actions.
• Build strong engineers, technicians, and leaders through developing resources for further training, building a candidate pipeline and ongoing coaching. Accountable to execute on Plexus’ Best People strategy, leaders will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning and ensuring that their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.
• Responsible to exemplify and hold their team accountable to demonstrating the Plexus Core Values. Leader will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning, and ensuring their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.

Education/Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10 or more years of related experience is preferred. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience will be considered.
• General Knowledge of ISO 9000, AS9100, TL9000, ISO 13485, FDA GMP Quality System Requirements, through training or hands on experience is necessary for success in this role
• Black Belt certification is preferred

This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.