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PRODUCT LINE LEAD
Springfield, NJPRODUCT LINE LEAD
- Monthly, quarterly, yearly execution of customer commitments
- 100% OTIF to all customer commitments
- Partnering with the operations team and to ensure parts are moving through facility in accordance with or ahead of schedule.
- Communicating execution risks and opportunities to Leadership
- Ensuring that appropriate risk mitigation plans are in place at the start of execution (ie: planning orders, yield factors, enlisting manufacturing engineering involvement, etc).
- Document lessons learned and opportunities for manufacturing improvements for any subsequent orders.
- Coordination of all necessary resources (quality, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, to ensure that all the necessary players have the information to move forward seamlessly
- Drive rapid resolution of ECO’s, EO’s and MRB for development parts.
- Proactive planning to identify when we should be outsourcing vs. insourcing parts in order to reduce overall lead time and risk to execution.
- Work with engineering and operations to drive cost improvement projects to ensure gross margin targets are achieved for hardware deliverables.
- Produce hardware execution schedules to provide to management and/or customers as required.
- Maintaining accurate data in ERP system to include commit dates, open/active orders, quantities, etc.
- Responsible for performance management and overall safety of any direct reports
- 5-10 years’ of production planning experience in an engineered to order Automotive or Aerospace production environment or heavily regulated environment.
- 3 + years as a Supervisor or Team Leadership role.
- Exceptional Multi-tasking skills required.
- Knowledge of AMS 2680/2681 welding with associated NDT requirements is a plus.
- MRP/ERP experience with either SAP or Epicor is desired.
- Ability to create and maintain MS project Schedules is required.
- Demonstrated Proficiency in MS Excel.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to drive process improvements and cultural change, be a change agent.
- Ability to identify risk and develop plans to mitigate.
- PMP or APICS Certification a plus.