Job Overview:
This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Engineering professional to join our team as a leader. The ideal candidate will have a strong blend of practical experience and formal knowledge to apply engineering principles in real-time problem-solving.
The successful candidate will play a key role in guiding and developing team members, providing hands-on training, coaching for performance, and ensuring both the quality and output of work remain at a high standard.
As a team lead, you will contribute to key decisions around employee development, recognition, and compensation, helping to shape a motivated and high-performing workforce.
Talents We Look For:
* Sets direction: An innovator who defines ways to create value and deliver on our mission and strategic imperatives.
* Manages performance.
* People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.
* Goal-oriented orchestrators: People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
* Talent developers: Growth-oriented managers who recruit and hire top-performing talent and prioritize the development of their team members.
* Network builders: Managers who build connections with other teams and divisions and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.
* Effective communicators: People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.
Key Responsibilities:
* Actively participate in day-to-day leadership of the business unit and positively contribute to the Engineering team, driving engagement activities.
* People and performance Management: Coach and mentor the engineering group.
* Resource Management: Lead the continuous improvement activities.
* Drive RFT & Manufacturing Loss improvements within the value stream.
* Quality Issues: Identifies, develops, and implements processes to improve department performance.
* Provides manufacturing support by defining work assignments directed to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements utilizing Quality System tools.
* Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the operations function.
* Engage and participate in supporting the delivery of Business unit's KPI's.
* Oversee the development of operational standards to be used in the plant for capacity evaluations, budget planning, and as a basic for operational measures (Key Performance Indicator).
* Continuously improve the performance of the business by providing technical solutions to operations issues.
* Provide leadership and direction to the business unit on technology development and application within the manufacturing process.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or Science discipline.
* 4 years relevant experience in a team-based regulated manufacturing environment, and ideally previous supervisory experience.
* Good knowledge of GMP / FDA regulatory requirements and current Health and Safety Regulations legislation.
* Proven experience practicing Lean tools.
* Broad understanding of operations and their impacts essential.
* High level of PC skills.
* Strong communication skills with both internal and external agents.
* An ability to facilitate a team of engineers to deliver a specific objective.
* An above-average level of emotional intelligence.
* Flexibility essential with strong project management skills.