Director, Manufacturing Engineering

Entangled Future; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluefors in Helsinki is seeking a Director of Manufacturing Engineering to lead the DR Operations & Supply Chain organization. This full-time role builds capabilities and ways of working that turn new product innovations into manufacturable, scalable, and reliably deliverable products.

You will own the Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, and capability roadmap, while guiding end-to-end transfer of new products from Offering Development into normal order-to-delivery operations.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, standards, competencies, and capability roadmap, and lead an organization of approximately 20 professionals.
• Own the Operations industrialization and manufacturing-readiness process within the end-to-end NPI process, ensuring a controlled transfer of new products from Offering Development into normal order-to-delivery operations.
• Ensure manufacturability and predictable supply chain ramp-up, including production processes, tooling, test and validation capability, product data, documentation, training, and release readiness.
• Lead manufacturing and service engineering support, production test development, manufacturing data and traceability, structured problem solving, and the controlled implementation of engineering changes.
• Build strong cross-functional and multi-site ways of working across Operations, Offering Development, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Customer Delivery, and IT.

Job description

Director, Manufacturing Engineering at Bluefors, Helsinki, Finland, FI. A director-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under business operations.

We are looking for a Director, Manufacturing Engineering to join our DR Operations & Supply Chain organization in Helsinki. In this key leadership role, you will build the capabilities and ways of working that turn new product innovations into manufacturable, scalable, and reliably deliverable products. You will lead Manufacturing Engineering across industrialization, new product introduction, production support, test development, manufacturing data, and engineering change implementation, while developing and leading a team of approximately 20 professionals.

Interested? Keep reading! You will own the Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, and capability roadmap.

A central part of your role is to create and lead a systematic end-to-end process for transferring new products from Offering Development into normal order-to-delivery operations. You will ensure that manufacturability, supply chain ramp-up, test and validation capability, product data, documentation, training, and production readiness are in place before release. You will also strengthen the management of product changes and support the performance and continued development of the existing product portfolio.

Success requires close cross-functional leadership. You will be a key link between Operations and Offering Development, proactively building visibility into product roadmaps and ensuring that technical requirements and manufacturing readiness are addressed early enough. You will work closely with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Customer Delivery, IT, and product and engineering leaders across the organization.

As Bluefors develops its international manufacturing footprint, you will also help build common ways of working that support controlled new product ramp-ups and product maintenance across sites.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, standards, competencies, and capability roadmap, and lead an organization of approximately 20 professionals.
• Own the Operations industrialization and manufacturing-readiness process within the end-to-end NPI process, ensuring a controlled transfer of new products from Offering Development into normal order-to-delivery operations.
• Ensure manufacturability and predictable supply chain ramp-up, including production processes, tooling, test and validation capability, product data, documentation, training, and release readiness.
• Lead manufacturing and service engineering support, production test development, manufacturing data and traceability, structured problem solving, and the controlled implementation of engineering changes.
• Build strong cross-functional and multi-site ways of working across Operations, Offering Development, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Customer Delivery, and IT.