Manager, Strategic NPI Manufacturing

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading power and control technology company based in Singapore is seeking a professional to drive NPI best practices and ensure successful launches of critical NPI programs. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in manufacturing and project leadership. Responsibilities include supporting strategic manufacturing direction and monitoring program progress. Strong communication skills and the ability to manage multiple projects are essential. Frequent travel for operational support is expected.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years of related experience in factories.
• Able to work independently with little instruction/oversight.
• Able to work in a fast-changing dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the strategic manufacturing direction.
• Ensure flawless transition from NPI kickoff to ramp.
• Monitor program progress for any stoppers.
• Identify improvement opportunities on existing processes.

Skills

Project leadership

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to manage multiple projects

Education

Bachelor in manufacturing, mechanical or industrial engineering

Job description

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Summary

To identify, standardize, deploy NPI best practices, among businesss units (BU) and factories, to align NPIs with business goals. Ensure success launch and flawless ramp of critical NPI programs from NPI to production in terms of product quality and time to market.

Responsibilities

• Support on the strategic manufacturing direction
• NPI standardization on best practices development
• Escalation for support from BU: PM and engineering
• Flawless transition from NPI kick off (KO) to ramp per plan
• Monitoring of program progress for any stoppers and adnormality
• Proper execution on the phase / gate review/exit with defined gate review meeting
• Ensure critical program major milestones happening in factories through on site witness
• Hands on support with local MSR for any immediate risk mitigation
• Deployment and execution of MRM process
• Line start readiness review
• Process qualification
• Jig and Fixture Readiness
• Tester readiness
• DFM/DFT review and JIRA log/status tracking
• Build Report readiness and review
• Identifing further improvement opportunities on existing processes
• BU PDP process
• Ops MRM process
• Factory NPI process
• Material driven process
• DFM/DFT process
• Shift left
• Document standardization of daily communication tools for NPI build execution within fatory:
• NPI program master list: include the detailed information on official kicked off NPI, team members from factory/BU and phases timeline etc
• Factory Build plan: align the start/end plan with all the functional support like SMT, Manual insertion and casing, F5/F10a and full blast etc

Experience

• Bachelor in manufacturing, mechanical or industrial engineering
• More than 10 years related experience in factories
• Project leadership, ability to direct actions of others to meet customer requirements.
• Able to work independently with little instruction/oversight.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work in Fast-changing dynamic environment
• Frequent travel to other locations for operational support is expected.