Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager of Power Tools

** 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
- 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
- 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
- Engage in operational management and strategic activities, align personnel and team's organizational chart planning to the company's target picture