The Production and Test Engineering Manager Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and achieve production output in accordance with cost, quality, and schedule requirements, while ensuring a safe environment
• Drive engineering, through the design and development process, challenging them to make high yielding and reproducible products.
• Develop operations-related plans, budgets, and policies, and procedures.
• Be a leader in cross-functional environments.
• Promote the performance of the manufacturing organization consistent with company objectives of on-time delivery, high responsiveness, high reliability, and competitive cost structure
• Implement lean methodologies to improve cycle time, and to reduce cost.
• Establish budget, plan and implement Capital expenditure requirements in support of the plan.
• Maintain flexible, motivated cross-trained workforce to leverage and optimize resources to dynamic output requirements.
• Achieve goals and metrics as agreed to with management.
• Participate in capacity planning as required.
• Coordinate all activities of the supervisors in the areas of scheduling, material handling, equipment, assembly, testing and shipping of the product.
• Coordinate training and set expectations for cell teams in safety, equipment, operations, troubleshooting, corrective action, productivity and quality. Tie the expectations to the Company goals through performance planning.
• Collaborate with technical, financial, and materials support teams in resolving problems and developing improved manufacturing processes.
• Provide team with measurement tools and expectations to report critical operating parameters. This will include automated and manual tests.
• Interview, hire and train required resources for permanent and temporary assignments to meet production capacity requirements.

Production and Test Engineering Manager Requirements:

• Solid educational background (BS/BA preferred) emphasizing mechanical and electronics assembly or Industrial operations in a technical environment.
• 5+ years demonstrated leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Operational Excellence programs and Continuous Improvement in leadership and contributing roles.
• Must have excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills; including the ability to interface with internal & external customer contacts. Must be able to communicate to all levels of the organization.
• Must possess a high level of initiative and independent decision-making ability.
• Establish and maintain facility environmental, safety, and health standards to minimize
• employee and community exposure.
• Must possess solid computer skills and working with production software, excel spreadsheets and other reporting applications.
• Knowledge of quality systems and standards with a focus on creating improvement standards that are based on the practices of root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of engineering and technology principles and practices.
• Knowledge of business, finance and management principles as well as the ability to review and comprehend financial reports.