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Barry-Wehmiller

Capital equipment and engineering solutions provider

Mechanical Assembly Leader

Product AssemblyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParma, Province of Parma, Italy€50k - €75k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A technical diploma, professional qualification, degree, or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience is required.
  • At least five years of experience in manufacturing, machine assembly, or a comparable industrial environment, including team-leadership responsibility.
  • Experience planning people and production priorities in a complex, low-volume, or engineered-to-order environment.
  • Working knowledge of mechanical assembly, technical drawings, bills of material, tolerances, manufacturing instructions, and change control.
  • Experience with Lean manufacturing, standard work, 5S, visual management, structured problem solving, enterprise resource planning, and production-planning tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead by example on safety, maintain a clean and hazard-free workplace, and ensure health, safety, and environmental actions are assigned, tracked, and closed.
  • Create a respectful, inclusive, and accountable team environment through clear expectations, daily communication, coaching, recognition, and active support for individual growth and engagement.
  • Manage individual and team performance, attendance, and development; maintain the skills matrix and cross-training plan to improve flexibility and succession coverage.
  • Translate the master production schedule and project priorities into a clear visual assembly plan by machine, phase, milestone, and resource.
  • Allocate people according to competence, workload, and risk; manage daily staffing, absences, overtime, and short-term capacity constraints.
  • Confirm readiness before assembly starts, including released documentation, material availability, quality status, tools, workspace, and required skills.
  • Monitor progress and target hours, implement recovery actions with clear owners and dates, and provide accurate status and risk updates in production reviews.
  • Ensure assembly complies with released drawings, bills of material, manufacturing instructions, approved changes, and defined quality controls.
  • Build quality at source through self-checks, in-process verification, checklists, and objective completion evidence; work with Quality and Engineering to contain nonconformities and prevent recurrence.
  • Maintain visibility of planned, actual, and estimate-to-complete hours; reduce waiting, searching, sorting, repeated inspection, rework, and other non-value-added work.
  • Contribute to margin improvement through effective labor deployment, overtime and rework control, and practical support for make-or-buy, preassembly, modularization, and design-to-cost initiatives.
  • Develop and sustain standard work, visual management, and structured problem solving across assembly activities.
  • Support modularization, preassembly, complete-kit readiness, supplier quality at source, and practical digitalization of shop-floor information.
  • Work with Planning, Project Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, HSE, Finance, and Service to resolve constraints and align execution.
  • Escalate risks early with facts, business impact, proposed countermeasures, required decisions, owner, and due date.
  • Conduct all activities in a fair, moral, ethical, and legal manner.
  • Demonstrate teamwork, collaboration, and respect.
  • Display enthusiasm and confidence in the work environment.
  • Show willingness to learn, accept new responsibilities, and implement new processes when provided appropriate instruction.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with packaging machinery or capital equipment is preferred.
  • Working English is preferred.

About the Company

Barry-Wehmiller

Capital equipment and engineering solutions provider

Barry-Wehmiller provides capital equipment and engineering solutions for manufacturing, helping clients improve operations through design, integration, and installation of machinery and systems. Their products and services cover the lifecycle of capital equipment for manufacturing, from concept through delivery and support. The company differentiates itself with a people-first culture called Truly Human Leadership, focusing on the growth and well-being of team members, which they say leads to better performance and better outcomes for customers and communities. Its goal is to build a better world by developing people and delivering reliable solutions that positively impact the lives of employees, customers, suppliers, and communities.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
St. Louis, MO
Founded
1885

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