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This unique role combines both Value Stream and Production Lead responsibilities, offering a diverse and challenging opportunity.

 As a Value Stream Lead, this position supports the complete Product Life Cycle from Phase 0 (Concept) to Phase 4 (Obsolescence.) Responsibilities may include the following:

• Sustaining manufacturing operations, including production support, quality improvement, and project management, such as cost reduction, inventory reduction, and sourcing change.
• Lead strategic planning for Test, Manufacturing, and Sourcing Strategies.

As a Production Lead, this position has responsibility and leadership over manufacturing subassemblies of modules and complete systems. It also acts as the Investigator on product lines and supervises product assemblers, including overseeing day-to-day activities to meet daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly requirements. The Production Lead focuses the team on aligning activities and resources towards creating and achieving shipment and revenue goals through partnering with functions that do not report to this position.

The Production Lead is responsible for ensuring a safe work environment, driving quality improvements, providing premier customer service, developing a technically qualified work workforce. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Customer focus

• Instill and maintain a sense of urgency and customer focus within Manufacturing.
• Prioritize production in line with customer service requirements and revenue goals.
• Drive continuous improvement of on-time shipments of systems, accessories and service parts

Quality

• Promote a quality-focused culture.
• Ensure workmanship standards exist for all operations and that they are followed at all times.
• Ensure responsibilities under the quality system are met.

Safety

• Ensure policies, procedures and programs are implemented throughout Manufacturing.
• Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are thoroughly investigated and resultant actions completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure staff is trained in all relevant procedures and policies.
• Ensure compliance with pertinent environmental health and safety procedures within their individual manufacturing operations areas.

Organization and people development

• Supervise staff in a manner that will facilitate high-performance in line with standards of leadership.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and a clear identifiable work ethos.
• Act as mentor both in a formal and informal manner.
• Ensure adequate tools are in place to effectively manage manpower.
• Actively participate and assist in selection and recruitment of new employees.
• Complete performance appraisals and interim reviews in a timely manner.
• Develop both team and individual goals and objectives and measure actual performance against them, providing timely and honest feedback on performance even in difficult situations.
• Keep the management team informed of issues and concerns in a timely manner.
• Create opportunities to reward and recognize success of teams and individuals.
• Ensure results are maintained and displayed a timely basis.

Manufacturing Engineering

• Development of Manufacturing Documentation, Identification of Tooling, and Test Fixture requirements. Develop or work with Engineering to develop required tooling and test fixtures.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for Gross Margin improvements.
• Assist in projects related to Best Cost Manufacturing and aligned with business objectives. Examples may include Insourcing, Outsourcing, and/or Cost Reductions.
• Lead product ownership from Proof of Manufacturing through Obsolescence.
• BOM Maintenance, Engineering Changes, Design Improvements, Lean Manufacturing

 ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Sourcing Strategies
• NPI (New Product Introduction)
• Engineering and Operations Documentation
• Sustaining Production
• Process Improvements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

To be successful in this position, you must:

• Have a thorough understanding of manufacturing technologies and processes, assembly and production methods.
• Have a thorough understanding of production planning, scheduling, purchasing, and inventory control.
• Be comfortable managing high levels of pressure while delivering results.
• Able to understand the key system constraints.
• Able to spot critical process issues quickly.
• Have these characteristics:
• Disciplined and tenacious.
• High energy.
• Able to multitask.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong analytical skills and common sense with an emphasis on the scientific method of problem-solving.
• Strong leadership, customer focus, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

EDUCATIONAL / EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor or master’s in engineering or science field of study ie in Mechanical, Electrical, Physics, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years current experience preferred, in Mechanical and automation assembly designs, including Manufacturing Engineering background using DFMA/DFx process for design and fabrication.
• Min 3 years of experience as production lead/supervisor or project leadership
• Excellent PC skills, especially Excel, SAP and other relevant application
• Strong background in Manufacturing Engineering and Visual/imaging product