Technical Manager Plant Process Improvements

Manage human resources and teams (CSW/MOLDING) and be responsible for meeting team efficiency goals. Responsible for implementing a work culture based on waste elimination and continuous process improvement, and ensuring teams work toward established efficiency goals.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and/or reduce the area's scrap level according to the measurable objectives established by the organization.
• Generate work strategies that ensure the maintenance and improvement of the area's indicators.
• Generate work strategies that contribute to the optimization of the area's processes.
• Manage compliance with the area's safety guidelines, as well as their implementation and monitoring of legal procedures applicable to the area.
• Supervise the proper execution of total productive maintenance on machinery and facilities to meet safety standards (product physics), quality, and productivity.
• Manage/prepare the budget assigned to the manufacturing, processes, maintenance, and tooling accounts to meet financial goals.
• Oversee the timely execution of project deliverables/engineering changes/requirements.
• Manage the execution/sustainability of actions focused on meeting the safety, quality, operational, process, tooling, maintenance, and financial objectives of the assigned operating platform.
• Supervise the management of improvements/changes made in the area to improve processes and reduce costs.
• Manage the generation and implementation of improvement ideas.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree: Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, or similar.

• 3-5 years of experience in automotive interior trim processes.
• Project management (automotive processes) (Desirable)
• Transfer of interior assembly machinery and equipment (Desirable)
• Experience in operational areas (Desirable)
• Knowledge of TPM, Quality Systems, plastics, pneumatic, mechanical, electronic, and electrical processes, robotics, industrial safety, personnel management, problem-solving, Six Sigma methodology, Lean Manufacturing, CSW, and molding.