Engineering COE/Technology Manager

Role Purpose

Guide the planning, decisions, and actions required to establish a successful manufacturing deployment of a new optical fiber coating system.

Engage early in the innovation life cycle and serve as an equal partner with the innovation program’s core team leaders, to make decisions, manage tradeoffs, collaborate on the plan of Record, and establish plans that optimize the success of the overall program. Responsibilities

Serve as an equal partner with Commercial & Technology to create a shared understanding.

Key Responsibilities

Equal partner with Commercial & Technology to create and manage shared understanding of program hypothesis, business case and related core assumptions.  Collaborate with shared objectives, metrics and deliverables

Pull mentality” for bringing innovation into manufacturing, with effective checks/balances for safety, quality, delivery and cost

Ensure corporate, division, and/or local innovation processes are followed and effective, including MIE playbook, PQA, NPI, decision processes, etc. Leverage other knowledge experts and SMEs to support project.  Participate in the MIE community of practice. 

Interpret manufacturing needs for low and high-volume phases of program, influence program priorities to ensure creating viable manufacturing operations that leads to a successful business

Ensure product design, process design and manufacturing systems are able to achieve the targeted performance in Quality, Cost, Capacity (Delivery) and Safety

Define and deliver Operational readiness for the site(s) and location(s) required to deliver products and services to the customer.  This includes implementing business processes/systems that enable accurate and timely information flow and material/product flow through the manufacturing system and value chain.

Develop appropriate start-up plans, pilot operations, and/or subsequent scale up plans that are able to make what the customer wants, when they want it, recognizing changes in scale may require changes to process, manufacturing systems, or locations.  Integrate detail from Plan of Record to recognize product generational changes over time.

Ensure high-volume scale-up operations can comply with Achieving Manufacturing Excellence Level 1 criteria

Experiences/Education - Required

B.S. in Chemical engineering or other engineering degree with experience in chemical process or polymer manufacturing

10+ years of manufacturing experience including leadership experience with at least 3 years of experience in chemical process or polymer manufacturing

Practical chemical process and engineering knowledge in high volume manufacturing environment

Ability to work with ambiguity, ability to make and manage assumptions.

Ability to develop and communicate a strategic view and integrate multiple sources of input.

Strong team and influence skills within business; ability to influence plant/program priority and resource alignment to enable key deliverables.

Recognize and be effective across culture shifts in the innovation life cycle, including flexibility and high learning in early stage to building stronger discipline in later stages.

Strong communication skills, to share manufacturing readiness to steering teams and project team members and division leadership.

Demonstrate extreme ownership: ability to work past defining challenges and obstacles and lead the team to determine a path and overcome them

Experiences/Education - Desired

Operations experience: having held responsibility for planning and executing customer orders to on-time delivery.  Experience working effectively with ERP, MES, and logistics systems

Innovation experience: Experience as plant receiver or start-up lead for new polymer development and deployment into manufacturing. Understanding of innovation processes, tools.

Technology experience: appropriate understanding of process/quality/equipment engineering areas needed to support program delivery.

Understanding of manufacturing and system capabilities: PQA, PEx, MEE, KT, Lean, Cost analysis, Capacity analysis, industry Quality and/or Regulatory requirements. Project management skills to manage complex projects with multiple workstreams, on time, on budget.