Engineering Manager - Manufacturing

Engineering & Maintenance Manager – Mississippi Manufacturing

Salary $140,000 - $160,000 + Benefits & Paid Relocation to the Southern USA

Lovely area provides a great escape from city life to incredibly scenic forests, rivers, and lakes. Temperate weather, charming people & lower cost of living. Solid schools, fine shopping, festivals, outdoor activities year around, community events, art & museums.

Our award-winning client is seeking an Engineering & Maintenance Manager for their manufacturing facility. In this role, you will support production activities, provide timely responses to production problems, lead engineering and maintenance groups and provide direction to optimize cycle time, uptime, yield, costs and MRO expenditures. Lead engineering group to remove production barriers such as downtime items, process and systems problems. New equipment, tooling, and systems designed and implemented into production.

As the Engineering &Maintenance Manager, your focus will be:

· Direct staff to write specifications to best define process and equipment needs & requirements

· Direct development of DCP and function as lead for launch phases

· Provide estimates in Capital, Tooling, Expense, and Timing for product changes & new products

· Provide direction for cost reduction efforts through clear goal setting, review of processes, tooling, methods, layout, departmental performance (scrap/MRO/OEE, etc.), cost reduction meetings, and active improvement efforts

· Support budgeting, forecasting and departmental training efforts

· Establish, manage & meet departmental budget

· Support the quality practices of records maintenance, customer requirements, direction and support provided

· Assure industry system and specific customer requirements are met.

· Oversee Preventive and preventive maintenance.

Minimum requirements for this Engineering Manager position:

· Bachelor’s degree in engineering

· At least 8 years’ experience in engineering, automotive or global manufacturing facility preferred

· Experience of Manufacturing and Quality principles, methodologies and systems (APQP, FMEA, PPAP, MSA, SPC, etc.)

· Experience in Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Problem Solving methodologies, etc.

· Project management experience

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.