Program Manufacturing Leader Manager

Essential responsibilities and duties

The main missions of the role are to: manage the project with multifunction team, ensure the project meet the BP from production design, DFM, industrialization, safe launch untill SOP+6 Month.

Reporting to: Global PML Manager

Key roles and responsibilities :

• Communicate with Process engineer and EOL/Equipment Engineer to review and validate the manufacturing processes and tooling for new products
• Manages process definition and production equipment definition and launch, in accordance with Customer and internal specifications, legal requirements and Faurecia standards / best practices,
• Ensures robustness of process FMEA,
• Coordinates the Manufacturing Team,
• Manage the CAR (System for capital expenditure approval) and respect equipment and tooling budget
• Ensure Design for manufacturing through concurrent engineering activities with product engineers
• Lead PFMEA until equipment approval into the plant
• Study, develop in detail, validate, release and set-up the complete Production System of the program in the plant: equipment and tool interfaces, layout, process flow charts, material and information flow diagram in accordance with the Business Group standards and program objectives.
• Coordinate work package tasks and ensure their accomplishment
• Ensure that manufacturing milestones are passed successfully and on time.
• Support with suppliers for design, validation of tooling, machines.
• Assess and make improvements and changes balancing automation and manual processes
• Ensure the launches of new program on the cost, capacity and quality in the plant.
• Manage the feasibility assessments and quote industrialization to new program as acquisition phases.
• Organize the support to Design and Quality Engineering with root-cause analysis of manufacturing problems
• Lead the support to Production and Quality Engineering on legacy processes and products
• Drive the team and accomplish to the program and industrial objectives
• Ensure a safe working environment complying with HSE regulations and standards (health, safety, and environment)

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree
• English level: fluent level to interact within the team
• Japanese level: fluent level to interact within the team
• License: Driver’s license

Experience:

【Must】
• Minimum 5 to 10 years’ experience Automotive Electronics Operations and at least 3 years at manufacturing/industrial engineering or program management.

【Nice to have】
• 3 years PML experience in automotive industry.

Skills and competencies:

Knowledge with.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing engineering and assembly processes
• Experience of managing multifunction related to industrialization at least 3 years
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making and communication skills.
• Thorough knowledge of engineering techniques associated with project management
• Must be capable of working with a wide variety of people from the shop floor to senior managers, vendors, suppliers and customers
• Demonstrated experience in launches of new production lines, automation as ME lead.
• Ability to create PM schedules, industrial plan with operational skills in production and quality matters.
• IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA. Experience driving Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Toyota Production Systems methods