Director, Manufacturing Engineering

About the role

This position is located in our Fort Worth, TX facility. The Engineering Director is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing processes and equipment for manufacturing to achieve quality cost and delivery goals for Celestica and its customer’s products.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage all new customer-specific process and equipment development projects.
• Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team, evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle.
• Support all manufacturing technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence.
• Evaluate, optimize and negotiate tradeoffs for DFX issues with suppliers, customers, supply chain and equipment leaders to deliver a cost-optimized total manufacturing solution.
• Evaluate potential manufacturing impacts affecting safety, cost, quality or delivery for each design concept.
• Evaluate suppliers' capability and capacity to meet production schedule and cost targets.

Qualifications

Typical Experience: 15+ years of relevant experience. Typical Education: Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills

• Project Management - Ability to lead high value, complex, multifunctional projects that involve accountability to executive management or directly to the customer.
• Leadership - Demonstrate "Executive Leadership Behaviors" as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives.
• Financial Acumen / Business Planning - Develop strategic plans on business unit or total company level to ensure all engineering work is financially viable and deliver the right ROI for the company.
• Coaching/Mentoring; Communication/Negotiation/Presentation; Creative Problem Solving; Customer Interaction/Stakeholder Management; Quality & Lean; Working Effectively with Others; D/PFMEA; 8D/Corrective Action; Equipment Safety; Design of Experiments (DOE).

Physical Demands

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment. Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required. Occasional travel may be required.