Plant Engineering Manager

Job Description

Join American Panel Solutions as a Plant Engineering Manager and take charge of manufacturing improvements, new product launches, and capital projects. You’ll lead a growing team of engineers, drive process innovation, and play a key role in shaping plant-wide operations and culture. This is a great opportunity to make a lasting impact in a high-tech, growth-focused environment.

Purpose of the Position:
Lead engineering for manufacturing improvement, new products, and capital projects.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

Direct the plant engineering organization to achieve lowest possible costs, advantaged product attributes, superior quality and consistent, reliable operations. Specifically including:

• Understand, lead and improve the plant's manufacturing technologies and capabilities.
• Engage with division and corporate experts to create a long-term roadmap to expand these capabilities through continuous improvement and step change projects.
• With Plant Operations Manager, create objectives for near-term improvement.
• Create and manage project portfolio for performance improvement, cost reduction, and capital expansion, including supervising project managers to implement these projects.
• Engage with division planning experts to grow capacity on time to meet sales goals.
• This person will be play a critical role in establishing the plant-wide culture and behavior norms, aligned to Corning culture.
• As a member of the plant staff, this person will help develop plant policies and execute these policies, along with corporate policies
• He/she will regularly interact with senior management,
• Directly supervise engineering department heads, and department of 25 engineers & technicians, which will grow substantially in first 3 years.

Education & Experience

• 15 years of manufacturing experience including at least 5 in production operations and 2 years as a 2nd level supervisor
• Bachelors of Science in engineering or BS in another technical area
• Advanced degree in engineering or business a plus
• 2 years of experience in project management
• Experience in new product development a plus

Required Skills

• Outstanding engineering problem solving using rigorous methods and tools
• Quality systems and process control techniques, such as SPC
• Portfolio management and priority setting
• Budgeting and cost analysis

Desired Skills

• Experience in solar module or wafer manufacturing
• Experience in glass manufacturing
• Experience in manufacturing in clean environments

Soft Skills

• International & multi-culture communication & coordination ability
• Strong ownership of achieving plant goals
• Creative and with strong continuous improvement work
• Excellent presentation and reporting skill
• Ability to change the thinking of others to establish long-term behaviors, norms, culture

Job Selling Points

• An excellent opportunity to join a growing business and technologically advanced industry.
• 2 other factories can support and interact. Large engineering community to join with elite set of leaders to help guide and coach you.
• Our products will be in the most advanced automobiles.

Career Development Opportunities

• Direct reports will start at ~25 people, but will grow as additional lines are added to the plant. This position will have broad responsibility to grow the factory.
• Position can eventually grow to Plant Manager or other regional manufacturing or engineering roles.

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