Description of Duties and Responsibilities • Ability to work safely and promote safety as Southwire's number one goal • Carry out capital and expense projects. Prepare project justifications, budgets, timelines, mechanical drawings, equipment specifications and scopes of work. Obtain equipment and contractor quotations. Conduct site management of contractors, equipment start-up, commissioning and operator training. • Provide process engineering support by means of process instructions, tooling and operator procedures to production lines. • Design or redesign machine components to increase reliability and productivity. • Lead continuous improvement initiatives such as material usage, scrap, rework, changeover time, uptime, productivity. The qualified individual shall utilize a very hands-on approach to create value and buy-in as the facility change agent by tactfully, energetically and tenaciously leading change. • Become the technical expert for the production lines.
Qualifications and Experience Requirements • Bachelor's degree or minimum 5 years project management experience in a manufacturing environment such as extrusion and/or metal forming with demonstrated results. Wire and cable experience would be preferred. • Good AutoCAD mechanical drawing experience preparing equipment layouts, assembly, tooling and part drawings. • Good trouble shooting, root cause problem solving and process analysis skill set. • This individual will be required to multi task on more than one assignments at a time. • Excellent people skills. The ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of the organization pertaining to Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost. • Good working knowledge of continuous improvement tools such as Lean Manufacturing, 5's, Six Sigma, etc. • Ability to work in a team environment to achieve common goals.