Hardware Operations Director

Req ID: 123618
Region: Americas
Country: United States
State/Province: Texas
City: Richardson

General Overview

Job Title: Principal, Manufacturing Equipment & Process Engineering
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Engineering (ENG)
Role: Director (PRI)
Job Code: PRI-ENG-MFG
Job Band: 12
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

The Principle, Manufacturing Equipment & Process Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing processes and equipment for manufacturing to achieve quality cost and delivery goals for Celestica and its customer’s products.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Identify and manage all new customer-specific process and equipment development projects.

• Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team, evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle. Support all manufacturing technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence.

• Evaluate, optimize and negotiate tradeoffs for DFX issues with suppliers, customers, supply chain and equipment leaders to deliver a cost-optimized total manufacturing solution.

• Evaluate potential manufacturing impacts affecting safety, cost, quality or delivery for each design concept.

• Evaluate suppliers' capability and capacity to meet production schedule and cost targets

• May also be considered the Subject Matter Expert in the company for specific sub-sector(s) of manufacturing.

• Develop best practice standards, participate in industry organizations for developing the standards and provide training and application support globally.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Enabling Competencies:

• Project Management - Ability to lead high value, complex, multifunctional projects that involve accountability to executive management or directly to the customer. Ability to influence decision makers to ensure that the right financial and people resources are allocated to your project, while ensuring that project ROR is in the desired range. Able to consider non-conventional technical solutions and acquire external knowledge and best practices into the project.

• Leadership - Demonstrate "Executive Leadership Behaviors" as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives.

• Financial Acumen / Business Planning - Develop strategic plans on business unit or total company level to ensure all engineering work is financially viable and deliver the right ROI for the company. Engaged in developing billing and accounting methods for engineering work, participate in benchmarking, understand and apply best market practices to make engineering delivery financially attractive to our internal and external partners.

• The following competencies may also be required and performed with help or under supervision: Coaching/Mentoring; Communication/Negotiation/Presentation; Creative Problem Solving; Customer Interaction/Stakeholder Management; Quality & Lean; Working Effectively with Others; D/PFMEA; 8D/Corrective Action; Equipment Safety; Design of Experiments (DOE).

Physical Demands

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.

Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• 15+ years of relevant experience.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

Nearest Major Market: Dallas
Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth