Job Description
**Key responsibilities**
- **Lead new-product introduction (NPI) strategies: perform feasibility evaluations (manufacturability, cycle time, capital and labor cost), produce cost estimates, and define production cycle-time targets and launch plans.
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- **Implement engineering changes (ECNs/PCNs) and coordinate their integration into production lines — update process documentation, routings, fixtures, test programs and work instructions.
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- **Establish, monitor and drive goals and KPIs for line balance, UPH (units per hour), UPPH (units per person per hour), HC (headcount), quality (yield/defects), efficiency, and productivity.
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- **Perform capacity review and analysis; maintain and present capacity reports; lead weekly capacity meetings with production, planning, and supply chain stakeholders.
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- **Optimize line balance and takt time through time studies, workstation design, manpower allocation and material flow improvements.
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