Job Purpose:
Supervises, leads, and provides technical direction to a group of technicians and/or engineers. Devotes a portion of time contributing to managerial, leadership, technical coaching, and staff development responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develops and enhances cross-functional team relationships and works cross-functionally to identify and resolve technical and organizational issues.
- Supervises a group of Engineers, Technicians, and contract staff.
- Determines appropriate contract staff levels in order to meet current workloads.
- Monitors spending so as to ensure department budgets are achieved.
- Provides guidance and training to staff, motivates individuals to achieve results, and assists staff in attaining performance/training objectives and career goals.
- Ensure Tooling/Equipment complies with EH&S requirements.
- Ensure best design practices/tools are employed by the group so as to maximize tooling/equipment effectiveness.
- Communicates the company, site, and department vision(s) to assure that staff objectives are aligned with the vision(s).
- Leads training and development of others; cross-functionally.
- Demonstrates TDP/PDP system knowledge through coaching and delivery of high quality, high impact deliverables. Leads documentation & development of all design requirements of developed designs or processes
Education & Experience:
- Hons bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant discipline.
- 5+ years relevant experience.
- Competent in High Volume Automated assembly processes with the ability to provide technical guidance to more junior engineers on their systems in the VS.
- Strong working knowledge of HMI's, Vision systems (Cognex/Keyence), Electric Drives and Controls, Sensors, solenoids, printers, robots (calibration, homing, troubleshooting). All based upon an excellent mechanical aptitude foundation.
- Demonstrate ability to Innovate & influence high volume automated assembly process/technology strategy for the VS.
- Anticipates potential issues/risks and mitigates before they appear. Instill a proactive environment where all engineers and technicians are consistently monitoring their processes, know which levers to look out for to ensure the systems achieve the required uptime & yield targets.
- Technical Drawings – very strong knowledge of GD&T, dimensional criteria understanding.
- In depth knowledge of BMRAM, VIP, MES, GLS, MRB, NCEP, CAPA, Windchill, GMP.
- Acts as a technical advisor to middle management on specialized business projects and technologies.
- Technical Leadership presence, Lead by example - demonstrate best practices consistently - Essentials & Behaviour’s.
- Problem Solving leader for the VS (Minimum green belt, Black belt preferable).
- Statistical Analysis skills e.g. DOE, T-test.
- Demonstrated Stakeholder Management.
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