Senior Director of Engineering

THE COMPANY

Our client is a global leader in electronics manufacturing located in Guadalajara, Mexico, with a successful track background driving innovation through technology and an extraordinary team, building great products. As a result of company growth, EMS leader is looking for a Senior Director, Operations Engineering to be located in Guadalajara, Mexico and oversee engineering for a campus of over 4 plants and over 7,000 employees.

THE POSITION

Reporting to the VP Operations the Sr. Director, Operations Engineering will be in charge of managing day-to-day engineering operations and core functions of engineering operations in order to achieve and maintain operational excellence.

What a typical day looks like (Essential Job Functions):

• Oversees the activities related to the technical support and process development engineering functions of a manufacturing area.
• Supervises 5 Directors (Process/Business Excellence, Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Product Engineering, Maintenance and Facilities) and an engineering team over two hundred.
• Plans and implements the development of new and scale-up process formulas. Establishes operating equipment specifications and acts as a liaison with product design and development to ensure processes and designs are compatible. Leads efforts to achieve cost effectiveness and improved product quality.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Principle Accountabilities: * Direct and control the activities of a broad functional area through several senior Manufacture engineering leaders involved in activities related to process engineering capabilities and statistical process control systems.
• Organize and lead Project/Program reviews to ensure projects are delivered on time, as per cost targets and within quality specifications.
• Partner with other functional leaders to ensure manufacture-engineering activities are well integrated with manufacturing operations.
• Provide guidance and feedback to subordinate leaders to ensure achievement of goals and objectives.
• Plan, budget, and manage the Manufacture Engineering, Facilities, Maintenance and NPI group costs in line with Corporate objectives.
• Implement appropriate HR Strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce.
• Develop, modify, and implement company policies that affect immediate operation(s) and may also have company-wide effect.
• Regularly interact with executives and/or major customers in controversial situations, contract negotiations or other matters for which influence skills are required.

THE CANDIDATE

The experience we are looking to add to our team:

• 5 years+ as a Director of Engineering supporting operations including process, operational excellence, manufacturing engineering, product engineering, test engineering and maintenance.
• Experience in EMS (highly preferred) / Electronics Manufacturing overseeing a large site 3,000+ employees or preferably multi-sites.
• Experience and solid expertise in SMT.
• Experience with Back-end assembly
• Electric test and strong optical test experience.
• Strong experience with failure analysis
• Experience with NPI (new product introduction), international transfers and project management
• Management and comprehension of P&L, customer, and company metrics.
• Excellent business acumen, people management, and staff development.
• High energy with sense of urgency, strong leader, results oriented, tenacious, and smart.
• Commercial negotiation, negotiation with clients
• Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
• BA/BS in Engineering (prefer electronics) or equivalent work experience with a degree.
• Fluent in English (85%+) and Spanish.