20 years of shop floor experience with Gemba approach to production issues. * Understands and implements Lean principles and practices in all manufacturing decisions. * Coordinates with Operations to define best practices and resolve manufacturing issues. * Develops capital plans for introducing or replacing machinery and equipment. * Rapid and flexible problem solver for IT and user issues with particular skill in listening to stakeholders, maintaining a smooth and cordial environment with team members and management throughout, even in the most demanding projects. * Excellent written and verbal communication along with strong presentation and facilitation skills. * Able to Develop manufacturability design guidelines and specifications for use in product development. * Assists in product planning and design by defining manufacturing capabilities, recommends changes in design of proposed new products to reduce manufacturing cost and improve results. * Performs cost engineering and standard analysis on products and processes. * Provides manufacturing management with the necessary technical expertise to identify operational requirements with respect to current and future manufacturing strategies. * Provides make versus buy analyses on products and processes.
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