Director of Manufacturing Engineering & NPI Readiness

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

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.