Senior Industrialisation Engineer

Senior Industrialisation Engineer:

The purpose of this role is to provide operational support to the Smart Residential/Yale Product Units and Market Regions within EMEIA focused on assuring productivity, efficiency, quality, cost optimization and on-time delivery with external supply partners and inter-company manufacturing organizations.

Principal Responsibilities:

Overall

• Support Product Management & Engineering teams with the industrialization of Designs for Manufacture and
• Support the Quality manager to manage end-to-end product quality.

Industrial engineering

• Generate manufacturing process requirements/instructions. Work with internal and external engineering to create necessary jigs, fixtures and tooling to support manufacturing goals
• Support project cost estimations including resources, capital and other requirements
• Review and provide input from an operational perspective on product configuration management
• Propose improvements and evolutions of products and production tooling to R&D teams
• Assist and supervise production partners to realize production prototypes in line with project timescales
• Identify issues related to production tooling and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure product related (operational) information is obtained and populated within relevant ERP and/or Product Information Masters.

• Work closely with engineering, product management, internal customers and operations/production entities to define, track and ensure completion of new product launch objectives.
• Perform supplier Process Audit through on-site visits
• Work closely with EMEIA Tech support, Engineering and Product Management to drive product quality improvement towards our suppliers
• Coordinate operations deliverables as required by the gateway process

Quality

• In collaboration with quality function, ensure all quality requirements are implemented at supplier’s e.g. in-coming quality controls, in-process quality control, out-going quality controls etc.
• Provide technical contribution in the resolution of problems or non-conformities both internally and with suppliers in close collaboration with quality. Help to manage quality of sub-contracted products.

...and any other duties required to assist in supporting the achievement of Company objectives

Education / Qualifications:

Essential:

• A Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) in a relevant field: business, operations, supply chain management, engineering.

Desirable:

• A Masters degree (MSc) in a relevant field: business, operations, supply chain management, engineering.
• APICS, CPIM and/or CIRM certification is also a plus.
• MBA is preferred.

Experience:

Essential:

• Deep technical understanding of manufacturing processes for both mechanical and electronic products
• Strong supplier management skills
• Significant operations management experience and progressive responsibility within a world-class manufacturing company preferably in consumer electronics
• Ability to influence and work through cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively and influence at all levels of an organization
• Experience of working in multi-cultural teams
• Prepared to travel extensively in the role, mostly within EMEIA, but occasionally elsewhere in the world
• Excellent communication skills
• Outstanding organizational skills

Desirable:

• Chinese language skills and/or Korean
• Experience developing business case
• Familiarity with business and financial principles

Contact and application

If you meet the criteria above, you are welcome to submit your application through the apply button at the bottom of this page. Interviews for the role will be scheduled continuously, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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