Purpose of Position

• Direct production and coordinate with engineering and other staff functions to achieve plant cost, quality, and service objectives while meeting all safety, health, and environmental requirements
• Leading team to deploy and develop lean production

Day to Day Responsibility

• Assist in the development of an operating plan aligned with division, business, and manufacturing strategies to meet key performance objectives
• Lead execution of operating plan to meet manufacturing objectives
• Assure manufacturing capability and performance improvement in support of division, business, and manufacturing strategies
• Provide focus and direction to plant personnel to assure knowledge and support of plant manufacturing priorities and requirements
• Meet all safety and environmental regulatory requirements. Create and maintain a safe working environment for all employees.
• Develop, track and improve capacity plan and capacity utilization
• Leads and organizes production group for continuous improvement
• Develop and deploy lean production in efficiency improvement and waste eliminate
• Build effective relationships within the business, plant staff groups, and with key customers and suppliers where required
• Assure growth in talent and capability of the plant production staff
• Champion corporate manufacturing initiatives as required
• Ensure shop floor operators to follow SOPs, EHS regulations and company policies and maintain and implement EHS system to ensure zero incidents and improve operators’ EHS awareness

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor and /or above degree majoring in engineering or science
• At least 5 years experiences in optical/electronic/telecom/ mechanical production or other related manufacturing engineering area
• Progressive responsibilities in operations and/or engineering leadership, including operations or engineering department supervisor experience
• At least 3 years or proven management experience in leading teams and departments in meeting continuous improvement goals, step change performance improvements, innovation, expanding technical capability, work redesign or other change efforts
• Experience coordinating activities within functional responsibility and collaborating with other groups to achieve results
• Experience in staff or project roles such as Quality or Applications Engineering, Supply Chain, or a project assignment
• Lean experience
• Demonstrated track record of growing talent.

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Cable assembly manufacturing experience
• Project management skill
• DMAIC methodology
• IE skill