AME (Advanced Manufacturing Engineering) Manager

• Console/ Packing Assembly NPD Project Management:

• Drive, promote NPD meetings, co-lead with the Operations Team to develop and maintain manufacturing action plans for new tooling, equipment, and production scheduling needs
• Drive NPD builds with follow-up actions, including but not limited to Engineering Builds, Qualification Builds, and Pilot builds
• Empower collaborative project communication channels with NPD, Engineering, Manufacturing, Production Scheduling, Quality, Supervision, and floor operators o Ensure proper development of Gantt Charts, Project Schedule, Risk Assessment, and Contingency Plans
• Ensure proper agendas to facilitate and document project meetings
• Ensure proper delivery of formal presentations to leadership regarding project status
• Ensure proper management of suppliers of capital equipment for turn-key applications custom equipment.
• Ensure proper management of cost, timing and budget of each project

• Manufacturing Engineering Development

• Lead research, development, and implementation of new manufacturing processes and capital equipment to improve current throughput, scrap/rework reduction, reduce cost, improve quality and improve reliability
• Lead prototypes to confirm manufacturing time/cost estimates and test proposed manufacturing processes
• Drive major strategic cost, quality and delivery initiatives with aggressive focus on breakthrough process and technology improvements to achieve a substantial competitive advantage
• Ensure proper management of equipment certification and run-off, using statistical analysis tools to verify process rate, capability and Gage R&R
• Ensure proper implementation of with GD&T, Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, and Control Plans
• Ensure proper development of tooling, fixtures, and gages design o Drive Continuous Improvement Projects in: Kaizen Activities, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, OEE, Work Instructions, Time Studies, Line Balancing, etc…
• Lead automation and innovation course through technology co-research and development as well as engineering co-test and deployment

• Process Design Analysis and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure proper performance of a wide variety of calculations and software aided analysis
• Empower a systematic as well as creative approach to problem solving process
• Empower multiple what-if scenarios to find best total cost solution
• Empower vision and foresight to test process extremes and build a robust risk assessment analysis matrix to ensure project success
• Drive well financial impacts of problem and solution

• Team leading and people development

• Develop AME engineer capabilities through identifying strengths, gaps and expectation as well as continually devoting in individual development, mentorship
• Nurture and empower leadership culture with appreciation of Milwaukee core values
• Drive the team’s performance to committed KPIs and key objectives