The role demands strong cross-functional collaboration skills, engaging effectively with Platform Engineering, Chief Development and Manufacturing Managers (CDMM), Purchase, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) teams to ensure streamlined manufacturing operations.
Essential responsibilities include ownership of manufacturing feasibility assessments, line readiness verification, tooling coordination, and capacity planning to align production capabilities with product requirements.
The candidate should demonstrate expertise in Value Analysis-Value Engineering (VA-VE), cost reduction strategies, productivity enhancement, and defect mitigation methodologies. A strong grounding in Lean Manufacturing principles, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Six Sigma, Kaizen, and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycles is required to foster a culture of continuous operational excellence.
