Manager - Manufacturing Engineering

As a Tier 1 partner of major industrial contractors (Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, Thales), Latecoere serves the aerospace sector with innovative solutions for a sustainable world. The Group operates in all segments of the aerospace industry (commercial, regional, business, defense, space), in two areas of activity: Aerostructures (doors, fuselage, wing and tailplane, connecting rods) and Interconnection Systems (cabling, avionics furniture, on-board equipment, electronic products). As of December 31, 2022, it employed 5918 people in 14 countries.

Techniques:

• Minimum Qualification as BE/B.Tech in Mechanical/Automobile/Aeronautical/Electrical engineering with 8 years’ experience and above
• Preferred from wiring harness
• Knowledge of Lean procedure like 5S, Kaizen, VSM, Gemba walks
• Knowledge of MRP processes and rules
• Experience in configuration management.
• Green belt six sigma appreciated.

The Manager - Manufacturing Engineering is in charge of:

• Responsible for industrialization of electrical wire harness products and technical support till FAI completion.
• Management of the ME/Methods/NPI & OPEX(Lean) team for Latecoere India being part of the managing board
• Conduct periodic reviews with the teams for KPIs responsible.
• Drive continuous improvement projects for the plant which contribute to SQCDM objectives.

The main tasks of the Manager - Manufacturing Engineering are:

• Setting up the Manufacturing process flow, conducting the FMEA and defining the Production layout for NPIs
• Finding solutions for products manufacturing by identifying the tools and engineering documentation readiness during the FAI and serialize manufacturing phase.
• Ensuring tools and documentation readiness for first manufacturing.
• Assuring the consistency of the manufacturing dossier, tools, production documents and processes linked product manufacturing process.
• Managing the configuration of product for different programs and ensuring the internal & external changes are identified & well implemented and incorporated in production plan.
• Ensuring the optimization and improvement of the working methods, process and technical means to improve the productivity.
• Suggests and implement new manufacturing process or alternate process according to internal or external requirements.
• Reporting to his hierarchy the issues and dysfunctions encountered (and proposing the solutions foresees).
• Ability to timely resolve the technical issue/queries during manufacturing process with internal team and with customer.
• Drive Skill improvement plans at the organization level and ensuring autonomy in each function.
• Address the critical topics in daily stand-up meeting with Top Management
• Interacting with local and central teams for management of ME/OPEX activities
• Manage the internal and external audits, designing the manufacturing process as per customer needs and ensure engineering processes are compliant with QMS standards.
• Familiar with Aerospace QMS standards, ISO9001/AS9100 as a minimum

The main tasks of the Manager – OPEX are:

• Supporting for root cause analysis by A3/8D methodology for recurring/Critical issues
• Ensuring good relationship with customers and contribute to customer satisfaction.
• Estimation of Workload for the team and ensuring effective utilization of resources
• Managing the technical skills matrix and ensuring backup presence for critical activities
• Manage the Hiring of new resources for ME/OPEX functions.
• Respecting the internals rules (comportment, security and safety rules).
• Optimization of production line ensuring less movement for operator and good ergonomics
• Piloting the Lean activities like 5S, Kaizen, VSM, Gemba walks
• Driving long term improvements (Hoshin Kanri projects) by aligning with group strategic objectives
• Coordinate with Cross functional teams and set up savings plan against budget
• Drive and launch the KAIZEN/ activities to improve the productivity of manufacturing process by reducing the manufacturing wastages.

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