Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Lead the planning, development, and implementation of BIW assembly processes and facilities to meet Safety, Quality, Timing, and Cost objectives.

• Feasibility Analysis: Provide critical feasibility statements for Product Development designs, ensuring alignment with manufacturing requirements.

• Process Optimization: Conduct robust process quality planning, leveraging virtual build simulations and PFMEA’s to enhance efficiency and minimize risks.

• Hands-On Support: Actively participate in physical builds across workshop, pilot build, and Manufacturing Plant locations, addressing issues promptly for seamless execution.

• Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and recommend cutting-edge manufacturing technologies for various applications, such as joining technologies, transfer systems, and logistics.

• Supplier Relations: Manage supplier relationships by preparing, issuing, and evaluating "Request for Quotations," ensuring alignment with project needs.

• Verification and Validation: Verify assembly processes and equipment both at suppliers and in-house facilities, ensuring adherence to quality standards.

• Problem Solving: Provide expert support in resolving complex issues to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively.

• Project Management: Support management activities by developing and monitoring detailed timing plans, ensuring projects stay on track.

• Compliance and Standards: Ensure strict adherence to company and departmental operating processes and policies.

• Technical Leadership: Manage technical challenges, offer guidance to the team, and escalate issues when necessary to ensure timely resolution.

• Equipment Capability: Drive achievement of Equipment Capability targets for all new and modified facilities, maintaining high standards of performance.