Engineering Manager

Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

Reporting to the Plant Manager you as an Engineering Manager will be responsible for maintaining optimal manufacturing processes, guaranteeing the quality of our products. Will be responsible for providing all the necessary tools to develop and execute the corresponding assignments to the department.

About the job:

• Provide engineering services, implementing standardization (Maintenance Plans, technical training, problem analysis and solution, technology improvement) and developing improvement strategies.

• Develop manufacturing systems that meet the quality, capacity required by the client, to maintain, establishing operation and work methods.

• Apply the skills and knowledge capable of maintaining, developing, correcting and implementing any manufacturing process and, in turn, the transfer of any production line to a different location of the organization, preserving the quality of our products at the costs established over time.

• Propose and justify improvements to existing processes to reduce costs and increase the productivity.

• Maintain constant communication with external suppliers regarding delivery times.

• Validation of new equipment, technologies

• Submit and implement ECO's and PCN'S.

•  Develop staff (Training, administration)

• Develop manufacturing systems that meet the required quality and capacity,by the client, maintaining and establishing operating methods and work standards.

• Represent the Engineering department in the “MRB” Boards.

• Carry out any other activity that your position warrants or that is assigned by your immediate supervisor.

• Develop and evaluate new technologies aimed at the development of the process as well as its implementation and supervision.

• Develop continuous improvement strategies to support company objectives.

• Provides solutions to reduce cycle times, ensuring the quality of the producet.

• Implement and control capital and budgets.

• Establishes recommendations for changes and updates to new products.

• Determines what activities are required to improve the production of the products

• Analysis of product defects for their solution.

• Analysis of Efficiency, Productivity, OEE, Downtime.

• Develop, evaluate and search for products as well as carry out cost reduction projects.

• Develop improvement strategies.

• Establish operating methods and work standards.

• Monitor compliance with the established budget.

• Participate in the development of activities to maintain manufacturing costs.

• within the limits established by the company.

•  Preparation of documents that facilitate the product manufacturing procedure.

• (Process chart, visual aids, work instructions, operation manuals,).

• Analyze, solve problems and defects in the process.

• Investigate the root cause of customer complaints and submit corrective/preventive actions to prevent recurrence.

• Maintain constant communication with the manufacturing areas to evaluate needs and priorities and provide the required support.

• Establish, implement and audit production standards and carry out capacity analysis control.

About you:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Manager of Engineering.

• Experienced in Engineering change management.

• Knowledge of computer packages for problem solving and use of Auto Cad.

• Management and administration of projects and new launches.

• Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques, knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology.

• Core knowledge tools (PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA)

• Knowledge of line balancing, standard work, material flows.

• English 90%.

• Customer Oriented (Teamwork).

• Results Seeking and Action Oriented.

• Integrity and Trustworthy.

• Make decisions with Quality.

• Learning Agility.

Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values — Customer Focus, Teamwork, Results-Driven, Integrity, and Innovation — support us on our mission to improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and performance of our customers' products and systems. We are an equal opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference — everywhere, every day.

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