Manufacturing Engineering Lead

Job Responsibilities

Demonstrate, teach, and apply principles of engineering, technical problem solving, and reporting of technical development.

Develop and communicate long-term strategic goals and translate them into specific performance objectives and action plans.

Cook up and develop engineering team members while remaining an active contributor in technical areas.

Accountable for attaining engineering team objectives as well as establishing and controlling departmental resource requirements and budgets.

Develop, establish and maintain procedures, standards of workmanship and reporting formats for technical work.

Lead and support efforts to identify and eliminate non-value-added operations and improve manufacturing effectiveness and efficiency.

Monitor technical advancements within Magna as well as outside the organization that could potentially impact processes or products.

Participate in customer and supplier technical problem-solving as circumstances require.

Build engineering team skills through proactive recommendations on in-house and outside training and development opportunities for each team member.

Work cooperatively with other departments (e.g., Operations, PICS, Product Development, Marketing, etc.) to ensure that engineering objectives and day-to-day activities are supporting the organization’s needs.

Provide leadership for process, product and equipment cost analysis that contribute to improved performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree with 4 or more years of related experience or equivalent engineering work background.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated capability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Prominent leadership skills in a participative work environment with strong emphasis on teaching these skills to others.
• Ability to direct and lead others through daily assignments, special projects, and root cause analysis.
• Thorough knowledge of glass fabrication and thin film deposition as well as electronic performance functional thin and thick films.
• Ability to develop, implement, maintain, and support systems as they pertain to manufacturing operations.

Qualifications

• Represent the Magna development expertise internally and towards the customer.
• Continuous improvement (increased efficiency and cost reduction).

Skills

• Continuous improvement (increased efficiency and cost reduction).
• Customer and supplier technical problem-solving.
• Leadership for process, product and equipment cost analysis.

Benefits

• Awareness, Unity, Empowerment.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

N/A