Location: Buffalo Grove,IL, USA
WHO WE ARE
We're a global team of over 20,000 engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and sustaining service experts who partner with customers to bring their products to life through inspired innovation and world-class customer service.
From surgical devices and health monitors to warehouse robotics and space products, we partner with our customers to help create the products that build a better world.
Whether you're looking to start, make a change or advance your career, find your path at Plexus Corp. and make an impact.
WHY WE LOVE IT
Engaging and challenging projects that fulfill and develop you. People that inspire and empower you to realize your full potential. Leadership and development programs to support your career goals.
We believe that our people create our best Plexus. At Plexus, we value the ideas generated by our collective uniqueness and recognize that the diverse backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives of our team members enable us to create the innovative products that build a better world. Because of this, we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply to our positions, and will look at candidates holistically, balancing work, education and additional experiences.
HOW YOU WILL DO IT
Purpose Statement: Primarily responsible for providing strategic technical leadership and execution of strategic initiatives, across Test, Industrial, Process, Automation and Product Engineering disciplines, to ensure that Plexus is positioned to service new and existing customers' advanced process and technology needs. This role has multi-site accountability within Plexus' AMER region to meeting stakeholder's engineering needs. The role is responsible for managing the implementation and execution of engineering philosophies across the manufacturing operations while working directly with the Engineering Managers and Directors at the assigned sites to ensure proper resources and skill levels are in place to support the voice of the customer and the process. The role will focus on ensuring there is cross functional alignment to provide engineering leadership and support to resolve customer issues. This role is accountable to define the strategic technology roadmaps and technologies and development, deployment and support plans.
Key Job Accountabilities:
* Champion of standard work for manufacturing operations. Lead best practices sharing and adoption within engineering operations. Lead process capability matrix relative to site technology roadmap.
* Ensure the processes, organizational capability and culture combine to consistently meet commitments to customers. Build collaborative relationships with internal and external customers. Lead the selection and development of standard work for specified processes and technologies.
* Create and monitor objectives, goals, strategies and measures for the engineering teams. Establish efficient processes and systems to track and report status of initiatives to include resources, projects, savings, etc. Lead development and adoption of process performance monitors to achieve takt time.
* Serve as primary escalation point for engineering activities to ensure that appropriate site, regional and corporate resources are appropriately leveraged. Manage issues to achieve root cause identification and regional deployment of systemic corrective actions.
* Build strong engineers, technicians, and leaders through developing resources for further training, building a candidate pipeline and ongoing coaching. Accountable to execute on Plexus' Best People strategy, leaders will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning and ensuring that their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.
* Responsible to exemplify and hold their team accountable to demonstrating the Plexus Core Values. Leader will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning, and ensuring their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.
Education/Experience Qualifications:
* A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required; a degree in Engineering is preferred.
* Ten (10) years of related experience is required; Seven (7) or more years of equivalent industry experience is preferred.
* General Knowledge of ISO 9000, AS9100, TL9000, ISO 13485, FDA GMP Quality System Requirements, through training or hands on experience is necessary for success in this role
* Black Belt certification is preferred
* An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.
* An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.
Travel Requirements:
* Typically about 25%. That may increase depending on project demands
This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.
We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special requirements. If you need an application accommodation, please contact us by email at ...@plexus.com. Please include your contact information and clearly describe how we can help you.
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Some offers of employment are contingent upon successfully passing a drug screen and upon completion of a confidentiality agreement.
Our Values and How We Lead behaviors guide our processes. Plexus does not make employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and encourage all to apply today!