Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

About the role

This is an onsite position in Irvine, California.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of leaders focused on optimizing production, quality, and safety in highly regulated environments.
• Drive functional excellence initiatives, deliver high-quality functional deliverables, and ensure technical excellence for product or technical development.
• Drive technical projects of major magnitude and scope.
• Provide significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.
• Provide guidance and training to staff, assist subordinates in attaining career goals, motivate individuals to achieve results, and recruit and maintain a high-quality staff.
• Lead adoption of Lean principles, including daily management, to drive accountability, streamline operations, and deliver sustained performance improvements.
• Develop and monitor department budgets.
• Determine appropriate staff levels, schedules, and resources.
• Coordinate sessions with project managers/core team leaders to identify opportunities for staff to learn about new initiatives or volunteer on new projects.
• Drive the development of department tools and methodologies.
• Determine project staff assignments and schedule work to meet completion dates and manufacturing engineering deliverables.
• Establish cross-functional team relationships.
• Provide an overview of the function and role of their group, technical skill sets, to other groups and/or divisions.
• Work cross-functionally in identifying and resolving technical issues.
• Drive and evaluate project and department progress, technical development plans, and results.
• Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that aligns with Quality Policy, Quality System, and applicable regulations. Ensure all employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of Manufacturing experience in a regulated environment.
• 5+ years of Management/Supervisory/Leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical Device experience highly preferred.
• Automation experience.
• Previous experience managing manufacturing capital budgets and cost reduction strategies.
• Ability to implement qualified processes using applicable systems (process validation, process planning tools, design of experiments, manufacturing assembly procedures).
• Ability to develop detailed process plans using applicable tools (process failure mode and effect analysis, fault tree analysis, and safety & efficacy reviews).
• Experience including procurement and implementation of major capital equipment programs.

Pay

$155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual

Benefits

• Health benefits: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program, and tobacco cessation program.
• Financial benefits: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.