What are the responsibilities and job description for the MGR ENGINEERING position at Daikin Comfort North America?
The Industrial Engineering Manager is responsible for the factory capacity planning, operational planning, and routing maintenance. Also to provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and analysts. Develops approaches for capacity analyses, makes recommendations for operational plans, and coordinates the maintenance and use of routing standard and data. Works directly with most of the cross functional teams, including Operations, Continuous Improvement, Production Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Finance, and IT.
Position Responsibilities may include:
Defines and coordinates the development of routing standards that are both as accurate as possible but also realistic to sustain as processes change and improvement projects take effect. Requires knowledge of best practices in manufacturing and how these processes are both interconnected and interdependent upon each other.
Ensures that the team of Industrial Engineers process ECRs and maintain the routings per the established standards. Requires expert understanding of Routings and Bills of Materials and how they are both foundational to the ERP system.
Coordinate and manage the team’s work both internal to the team and external with other departments to ensure on-time completion of tasks and projects.
Design various capacity analysis methods as needed to account for the latest forecasted demand, upcoming new product designs and the associated Phase In and Phase Out, current and new equipment, performance etc.
Coach and train the team on how to store, retrieve and manage the necessary data for capacity planning via the team’s SQL database. Ensure best practices are followed for the management of the SQL database and its procedures, jobs, views, etc.
Report out to leadership on the key takeaways from the various analyses performed by the team for capacity, operational planning, routings etc. Will require being both a strategic and tactical communicator and able to summarize complex data and analysis into simple conclusions.
Establishes continuous improvement goals and executes action plans.
Participate in additional projects to support ongoing business needs.
