Manufacturing Shop Operations Manager

Job Description Summary

Are you a dynamic and analytical professional with a passion for manufacturing operations? We have an exciting opportunity for you to lead and manage our shop floor manufacturing operations convert customer engineering inputs such as lay-out and wiring lists into manufacturing outputs . In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and executing sales orders from various customers, ensuring the highest standards of quality, cost efficiency, and timely delivery. You will also communicate with Europe engineering project clusters to provide updates on the manufacturing status of sales orders.

Key responsibilities include preparing detailed project plans, manage production´s manpower, support conversion of engineering inputs into manufacturing outputs, interfacing with suppliers, executing and analyzing production work orders, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement. Additionally, you will investigate stock issues, support lean manufacturing projects, and track key process indicators.

If you hold a degree in advanced vocational training or technical degree in Electric-Electronic Engineering, electro-mechanical engineering, or industrial engineering, you are proficient in Spanish and English, and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, we want to hear from you!

Job Description

Job Specifications:

• Preparation and execution of the manufacturing plan for incoming customer orders (short-mid long-term vision). In this plan several factors and players need to be considered and involved such as order entry, execution at shop floor level of engineering inputs for production (lay-outs + wiring lists), procurement, material planning, project management, EHS, maintenance, production, quality, subcontractors, testing, packaging and finance areas.
• Understanding and execution of control panel manufacturing lay-outs and wiring lists (interpretation and execution of lay-outs and electrical schemes for control panels), define lists of materials and material lists which are outputs for transference to production. Interact with engineering and project teams from European clusters to improve design aspects during integration of control panels.  
• Understand general technical regulations and standards for control panel manufacturing.
• Support commercial team by return of experience, optimizing project cost & deliveries.   
• Active and continuously interact with industrialization team; team that creates bill of materials through schematics for control panel operations and preparation of wiring lists and implementation of systems to improve quality of this data. It may be required to support in establishing priorities and special tasks from this team.   
• Coordination of internal and external human resources to execute manufacturing plans.
• Deal with several internal or external contacts to establish regular operator training & responsible for frequent: production personnel training and update of skill matrix (I.E. EHS, quality, cost & delivery topics) 
• Lead regular meetings to inform operators and team members about production´s performance and key metrics and lead implementation of corrective actions as continuous improvement.
• Prepare production reports, which is part of the shop floor daily production management board and maintain track and maintain in a daily basis of this tool.
• Daily review of production performance records of operators-machines and develop action plans in case of deviations.
• Coordinate and check in a regular basis review of customer demand-capacity along with internal customers (GE Vernova).
• Lead manufacturing improvement projects to increase productivity (OEE focus). Lead continuous improvement culture to improve quality and participate transformation project and mindset change from low volume to high volume.  
• Support, guide and train personnel with new production tasks (development of supervision tools and skills in coordination team).
• Communicate and interface with different world regions about the manufacturing status of sales orders from beginning to end process flow, including shipping status.
• Preparation and responsible of detailed planning for relevant projects and completion of the defined milestones with the support of several areas (engineering, project, quality, EHS, procurement, etc.) along with 3rd. subcontracted parties.
• Interface with suppliers and service areas of supply chain for completion of a defined planning, meeting quality, costs and delivery.
• Deployment and coordination of resources to meet project timelines.
• Analysis of customer orders and execution, balancing of resources and very regular allocation of resources-costs.
• Analysis of the execution of cycle times established in the cost structure for manufacturing of panels (real vs. planned).
• Responsible to keep track of Key manufacturing process Indicators and follow-up of defined action plans: EHS, Quality, Cost and Delivery. Support quality in root cause analysis to eliminate particular or systemic issues. 
• Conducting investigation analysis along with management for systemic stock issues such as lack of materials, min. Stock requirements on bulk materials, etc.   
• Use and experience of existing ERP (SAP or others) and/or MES tools, to improve and plan manufacturing circumstances.
• Implementation at production shop floor of ideal work centers at production´s shop floor.   
• Implementation and execution of lean manufacturing projects such as: 5s, Andon, Bottleneck analysis, Gemba, Root Cause Analysis, OEE, SMED, Value Stream Mapping, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced Vocational training (Electricity or Electronics) or Electric/Electronic Engineer.
• Proven experience in the electric manufacturing sector working directly in the manufacturing and engineering areas.
• Experience in electric diagram interpretation and willingness to propose improvement actions (Desire to be familiarized in general terms with AutoCad, E-Plan, Ebase softwares).
• Proficient level in Spanish & English.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a strong customer focus and ability to cooperate with the different departments.
• Team working approach, good communication and interpersonal skills with a high level of self-motivation, flexibility, and self-learning aptitude.
• Exposed to deal with multiple daily challenges against the time and exposed to execute manufacturing projects with limited timing and dealing with 3rd parties in many cases. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with use and implementation of lean manufacturing tools.
• Mid-level knowledge of office tools.
• Self-motivated, autonomous, and dedicated team player.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and achieve milestones and deliverables.
• Analytical and with high sense of urgency.
• High communication and organization skills to coordinate activities involving different teams and areas.

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