Detailed Description:
Provides direct and indirect supervision to subordinate team leaders and professional employees performing diverse roles. This includes establishing three to five year plans/objectives, and developing policies for the function/unit. Accountable for dept results and for activities or projects involving multi-functional teams. Work requires application of in-depth knowledge of professional standards and precedents in area of specialty. Receives assignments in the form of objectives and sets goals to achieve objectives. Establishes and recommends changes to policies. Develops or assists in the development of department budgets and goals. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve goals results in additional costs and personnel, and serious delays in overall schedules. Provides direct supervision to others, or indirect through subordinate supervisors, and coordinates the activities of a section or department with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods, and employees. Makes hiring and firing decisions. Reviews employees’ performance and recommends employee compensation; coaches for improved performance and disciplines as necessary. Provides final approval for subordinate managers’/supervisors’ salary and performance recommendations. Builds cross-functional relationships where persuasive skills, negotiation skills, and considerable tact are required to gain support. Interacts directly with subordinates and peer groups; interfaces with senior managers on issues related to the area of expertise. Maintains positive relationships with key customers, suppliers, etc., who have a significant impact on the success of the organization.
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
Responsible for understanding the customer’s technical roadmap and identifying and managing all new customer-specific process development projects. Identifies and manages all new customer-specific process development projects. Defines the problem, coordinates the team, directs work assignments and assists with problem resolution. Provides engineering expertise for all technical issues related to the customer’s product(s) from product conception to product obsolescence. Participates in conceptual development including board partitioning, feasibility study and trade-off negotiation. Evaluates potential manufacturing impact (assembly, test, and system) for each design concept. Evaluates suppliers' capability and capacity. Participates in contract negotiation. Examines the suppliers' quote including NRE, tooling, lead time and volume prices. Establishes and communicates the manufacturing requirements including packaging, labelling, documentation, test and quality standards. Manages and supports prototype builds. Provides all deliverables and plans all unique materials to support the builds. Generates instructions and exceptions for each prototype build. Reviews, follows up on, and addresses all issues and concerns derived from the builds.
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies: Engineering Foundation Competencies Understanding of competitor's pricing models. Knowledge of competitive benchmarks for pricing of specific product types. Knowledge of mechanical parts manufacturing processes. In-depth knowledge and understanding of manufacturing processes and equipment. In-depth knowledge of quality improvement practices and techniques. Ability to plan for and coordinate a wide variety of resources to meet production quality and quantity metrics. Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers. Ability to effectively lead, manage, train, coach and motivate a diverse group of employees to achieve high production levels within tight time deadlines and in a highly dynamic manufacturing environment. Ability to use so
Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.
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.
