Manufacturing Engineering Leader – NPI & Industrialization

Bluefors; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluefors is seeking a Director of Manufacturing Engineering to lead the DR Operations & Supply Chain organization in Helsinki. You will build capabilities to turn new product innovations into manufacturable, scalable, and reliably deliverable products, and lead a team of about 20 professionals.

You will own strategy, operating model, and capability roadmap, ensuring manufacturability, ramp-up, test, data, documentation, training, and release readiness, while fostering cross-functional

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in high-tech or industrial manufacturing, engineering, industrialization, or production operations.
• Proven leadership experience in manufacturing engineering, industrialization, or operational development.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the Manufacturing Engineering strategy, operating model, standards, competencies, and capability roadmap, leading an organization of ~20 professionals.
• Own the Operations industrialization and manufacturing-readiness process within the end-to-end NPI process, ensuring controlled transfer of new products.
• 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, problem solving, and controlled implementation of engineering changes.
• Build cross-functional, multi-site ways of working across Operations, Offering Development, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, IT.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Industrialization

Change management

English proficiency

Education

Master's degree in Engineering/Industrial Engineering/Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

ERP

PLM

MES

Test systems

Reporting platforms

Job description

Bluefors is seeking a Director of Manufacturing Engineering to lead the DR Operations & Supply Chain organization in Helsinki. You will build capabilities to turn new product innovations into manufacturable, scalable, and reliably deliverable products, and lead a team of about 20 professionals.

You will own strategy, operating model, and capability roadmap, ensuring manufacturability, ramp-up, test, data, documentation, training, and release readiness, while fostering cross-functional