Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager, Medical Tubing and Film – Pleasant Prairie

Job Description :

The Engineering Manager, Medical Tubing and Film provides day to day guidance, direction, pace and accountability for the Engineering Department focused on Medical Tubing and Flexible film extrusion and converting processes. Manages various engineering activities including safe plant operations, new product / process development, capital equipment projects, manufacturing standards and training, continuous improvement, and other sustaining operational activities.

The ideal candidate for this role is a technical leader with a proven track record of maximizing the business impact of teams, investing in developing talent, and jumping in with a hands-on approach to drive new product and process excellence.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES :

• Actively promote and drive a culture of safety within Spectrum Plastics.
• Develop and maintain a diverse, well-trained, high energy, motivated engineering team by setting expectations, goals, and direction and providing training, mentoring, coaching, recognition, and feedback
• Manage and drive all facets of engineering projects including design, construction, automation, assemblies, process development, validation activities, documentation, training, and transfer to production.
• Drive continuous improvement activities using Lean Manufacturing methodologies to improve both the efficiency and quality of manufacture with strong accountability for site savings goals
• Establish and manage project schedules, delivery dates, and cost objectives. Drive engineering team to execute on these plans. Communicate this information to internal and external customers.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly and responding to requests
• Drive capital investments including resourcing, budgeting, and execution of capital projects.
• Apply risk management best practices to the development and manufacturing processes by identifying hazards, estimating and evaluating associated risks, controlling these risks, and monitoring the effectiveness of risk controls.
• Generate and keep all manufacturing documentation up to date (BOM’s, specification changes, ECO’s, reports, print revisions, fixturing, protocols, etc.).
• Discover and explore new business opportunities, unmet customer / market needs, and technology opportunities to fill the pipeline.
• Support the commercial teams by providing customer support as the go-to technical leader for extrusion and films in medical applications.
• Define and manage project activities for commercial release of new products and corresponding manufacturing processes while meeting expectations for sustainable, efficient, repeatable, and reproducible manufacturing operations.
• Translate customer needs into quantifiable CTQs that can be used to scope projects, report progress to targets, and create actionable plans to meet customer requirements.
• Collaborate with site operations leadership to identify and resolve technical systemic challenges and support commercial solutions.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively in a cross functional organization. Use strong presentation skills to present technical information to audiences with diverse backgrounds and connect technical concepts to business outcomes.
• Available to travel domestically or international as needed up to 15%

Job Qualifications

Preferred :

WORKING CONDITIONS :

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and stand for moderate periods of time in an office and factory setting. Regular use of hand tools, micrometers, and microscopes is required. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, will regularly lift up to 20 pounds, and occasionally be required to lift and / or move up to 50 pounds.