Global Industrial Tooling Manager at MSA, The Safety Company in Cranberry Twp, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

MSA, The Safety Company


Global Industrial Tooling Manager

US-PA-Cranberry Twp

Requisition ID: 2024-7947
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Operations (MissionOPS)

Overview

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.

Are you in? Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities

Specifically, this position will focus on understanding the current processes in place for industrialization of our manufacturing tooling and actively participate, promote and transform these processes to be best in class. To do this they must create positive relationships with internal & external (supplier) stakeholders, develop talent, embrace a continuous improvement mindset, lead a team, manage day to day tasks and execute the strategy through regional Operations and local Manufacturing Leadership. They will create a global strategy for our industrial tooling, which will include a key focus around skills, equipment and resources required to design, fabricate, repair and maintain tools, dies, molds and precision components in the manufacturing facilities. The manager will champion an organized approach to conduct industry research and provide thought leadership in the field of industrial tooling to introduce new technologies that contribute to breakthrough innovation while ensuring efficiency and quality of our industrial tools. The role will be to provide expertise in industrial tooling into our new product development process to build manufacturability into our new product designs.

Engineering Manager I:

• 8 years relevant work experience
• Expertise in tool and die manufacturing, precision machining, and knowledge of materials
• Deep understanding of manufacturing operations, lean manufacturing, process metrics, Industry 4.0
• Critical thinking, processing, and organizing facts, data, and other information to define a problem and develop effective solutions
• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills
• Experience collaborating with and influencing cross-functional teams and key stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to build & deliver structured & compelling communications (both written and verbal) to sell a vision
• Successful use of cost / benefit analysis and key financial drivers to justify significant capital programs, as well as monitoring their return
• Passionate about designing, implementing, and maintaining efficient manufacturing processes, ensuring quality control of outputs, specifying equipment, crafting, and deploying monitoring protocols, and working in a high-performance and fast-paced environment
• Ability to execute a strategy into operations
• Thorough understanding and experience in managing change
• Maintain the highest quality standards for all tools and fixtures under development, understand the criticality of robust technical offerings and accept nothing less than stable, robust, and resilient product/system deliverables
• Own version control and release management processes ensuring that all releases have been properly vetted and tested prior to production release
• Help promote a strong culture of quality within the company, push excellence across the organization and retain high standards for all MSA products/systems
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders

Engineering Manager II:

• 10 years relevant work experience, including a minimum of 2 years’ experience in direct staff management.
• Experience in technology evaluations and road mapping.
• Experience in annual portfolio planning processes and execution.
• Detailed people resource forecasting, planning, & justification.
• Strong understanding of product requirements, specifications, and design for manufacturability with a proven track record of developing tools to meet these requirements
• Comfort navigating technical teams to drive root cause analysis on underperforming tools and fixtures

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in appropriate discipline required, preferably from an ABET accredited program.

Preferred:

• Continuing education in management studies expected
• Advanced degree
• PMP or PE certification

• Experience with advanced manufacturing applications such as: additive manufacturing, vision, scientific molding, logo & customization
• Direct management experience in any of the following manufacturing environments: molding, machining, tool & die fabrication.
• New Product Industrialization (NPI),
• Design-for-Assembly / Manufacturing (DFM/A),
• Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE)

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MSA is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and to providing a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. As such, it is MSA's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of the person's age, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, veteran's status, genetic information, political affiliation, disabling condition, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. MSA also makes reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who are otherwise qualified to perform a job unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship.

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Salary:

$162,875.00

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