• The Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering at ZEISS leads product quality and business process improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulations and standards
• The role involves coordinating cross-functional teams, managing continuous improvement processes, supplier oversight, and applying data analysis tools like Six Sigma, Lean, and failure analysis methodologies
• Manager, Manufacturing Engineering manages all aspects related to the product quality and business process excellence development
• Consulting with the Management team and the employees to ensure all processes, which are an essential part of the management system are developed, implemented, realized and sustained
• Periodically review applicable laws, regulations, and standards to ensure continued compliance
• Control of documents and records of local processes (participation to approval, release management thru ECO process, communication of approved documents, administration of process information center.)
• Coordination of the continuous improvement process (CIP) at XRM
• Duty and right for escalation to the General Manager and to the Management of the Research Microscopy Solutions (RMS) Board in case of deviations on the products and processes
• Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified products
• Collaborates in the development of acceptance tests and inspection criteria and procedures with project and systems engineering
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations
• The problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
• Coordinate supplier management process with the purchasing department to ensure qualified suppliers are selected, approved, and monitored
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions
• Analyze existing business processes together with business process owners to evaluate current capabilities and identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities
• Support the development of detailed methods and procedures and job aids for new processes
• Understand business processes in detail, be willing & able to advise and train cross functional teams
• Leading cross functional team meetings with focus on the process improvement
• Create business process flows and activity diagrams utilizing value stream mapping tools
• Define process metrics and performance goals together with business process owners
• Measure the performance of new processes and systems through metrics collection and analysis
• Establishing training of processes and sub processes throughout the organization
• Support the development project plans to track the deliverables of process improvement teams across functions and initiatives
• Shepherds the methodology, assist process users, and ensures continued use and improvement of the process
• To fulfill this responsibility, the Sr
• Manager, Manufacturing Engineering applies Data Analysis techniques that can include:
• Statistical Process Control
• Root cause failure analysis (RDFA/FMEA/5WHY/FISHBONE/8D, ETC)

Failure reporting, analysis and corrective action systems (FRACAS)

• The position requires strong leadership skills, extensive experience in quality management systems, and the ability to develop and sustain process excellence within a manufacturing environment
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Six Sigma Lean & PDCA Tools & Methodology
• Bachelor or Master's degree in Engineering or relevant degrees
• 7-10 years experience as a direct Manager

7 + yrs experience in industry

• Experience with Quality Management systems
• Experience with quality control methodologies and tools (JMP); Minitab
• Lean & Six Sigma knowledge
• Experience with audits
• Evidence for structure and reliable work habits
• Excellent communication skills

A leader who develops leaders

Manufacturing engineering, process improvement, quality management, Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, supplier management, statistical process control, failure analysis, business process optimization

• The annual pay range for this position is $141,000 – $176,000
• The pay offered for this role may be influenced by factors such as job location, scope of role, qualifications, education, experience, & complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent
• This position is also eligible for a performance bonus or sales commissions
• ZEISS also offers robust benefits, including medical plans, retirement savings plan and paid time off
• We have amazing benefits to support you as an employee at ZEISS
• Dental
• 401k Matching
• Employee Assistance Programs

Vacation and sick pay