Job Overview
We are seeking a seasoned manufacturing expert to spearhead the establishment of our first advanced manufacturing facility. This individual will be responsible for commissioning pilot-scale production lines and driving process improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
* Establish a Global Manufacturing Strategy: Develop a modular, scalable approach aligned with our company's growth objectives.
* Lead Industrialisation from Pilot to Mass Production: Utilize stage-gates and clear launch metrics to ensure seamless transitions.
* Build a High-Trust Culture: Foster a continuous-improvement environment through tiered daily management and lean practices.
* Own Process Design for Scalability and Stability: Ensure our production processes are adaptable and reliable.
* Integrate QMS Data Flows: Enable traceability, genealogy, and real-time performance management.
* Drive Cost, Yield, and Takt Improvements: Achieve target goals in cost reduction, yield enhancement, and takt time optimization.
* Define Architecture and Standards: Establish guidelines for in-house production equipment, design standard modules, and fixtures for global replication.
* Ensure Compliance: Meet machine safety and electrical standards, as well as customer and market regulatory requirements.
* Partner with HSE: Embed safe systems of work, machine guarding, and program-level risk registers with mitigations.
* Conduct Design and Operational Risk Reviews: Ensure environmental and regulatory compliance from pilot to scale.
* Own Industrialisation Programs: Scope, schedule, budget, risk, and capex/opex business cases with ROI and should-cost models.
* Stand Up Launch Governance: Report on KPIs and assist internal recruiter with recruitment and development of two core teams: Manufacturing Engineering/Industrialisation and Maintenance-Reliability/Automation.