Engineering Manager

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of talented engineers in the manufacturing of products within the areas of Advanced Acoustic Materials, Satellite & Propulsion Materials, and Aero Interiors & Defense Materials.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Process Engineering group at the Casa Grande facility.
• Provide direction and assistance to improve process reliability and material usage variances (MUV).
• Provide direction and assistance for the optimization of manufacturing processes, systems, and equipment across the facility in support of continuous improvement (CI) initiatives.
• Support the introduction of new products (NPI) by providing timely tooling, manufacturing documentation, and customer technical interface.
• Ensure visibility of new programs with respect to schedule adherence and cost/budget compliance.
• Provide engineering support and service to the Quality team with respect to raw material and product quality issues.
• Provide engineering support for the review and updating of raw material specifications, root cause investigations and corrective action plans.
• Provide support and service to the production business units to meet internal and external customers’ expectations.
• Manage the maintenance of engineering standards, bills of material, and routings.
• Ensure that all adjustments are timely, accurate, and consistent with current practice.
• Provide engineering support and service to the Maintenance team with respect to equipment reliability improvements, development of preventative maintenance plans, equipment upgrades.
• Provide engineering support for the review and approval of MOC’s and Document Change Requests to help ensure Casa Grande maintains regulatory compliance and meets customer expectations within a highly regulated industry.
• Maintain emphasis on operational, process, and technological improvements.
• Develop and maintain critical partnerships with outside agencies to ensure that plant technological advancements are continued.
• Lead the Process Engineering team in the development and execution of capital appropriations.
• Provide technical input in the management of plant capital projects, providing direction and guidance on cost and schedule control.
• Manage employee development by providing applicable training, challenging assignments, and clear performance expectations.
• Carry out responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising and rewarding performance; addressing complaints, resolving problems, and administering corrective action when necessary.
• Establish and maintain a professional and consistent work environment to help ensure Casa Grande remains a viable and healthy facility and provides a satisfactory work environment.
• Partner with the environmental health and safety team to ensure compliance of Hexcel’s production processes to all environmental regulations.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and secure work environment.
• Actively support and interact in monthly and/or plant refresher safety training using available resources and prescribed goals to determine and subsequently help eliminate actual and potential safety issues, unsafe acts and/or conditions to preclude accidents, to keep Hexcel employees safe, and to achieve the Department/Plant and/or Corporate Safety goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science from an accredited four-year college or university, preferably in Engineering, master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years related experience that demonstrates increasing levels of responsibility with a minimum of three (3) years in a leadership role.
• Preferred experience includes manufacturing, ideally aerospace, in a continuous-run, material processing operation with a multi-shift, multi-product environment with regular customer interaction.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and experience with Minitab and manufacturing execution systems (MES) preferred.
• Strong statistics background in support of Six Sigma activities.
• LEAN/Six Sigma Certification preferred.
• Ability to define problems, collect and interpret data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, take initiative, maintain confidentiality, meet deadlines, work effectively both independently and in a cross-functional team environment is critical.
• Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions from groups of business leaders and customers, write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen, U.S. national, person lawfully admitted for permanent residence, temporary resident under sections 210(a) or 245(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, person admitted in refugee status, or person granted asylum.