Technical Area Manager

Qnity Area Managers have shared responsibility and accountability for plant personnel, assets, and achievement of the plant related site, business, and corporate goals. Area Managers provide leadership to the operations technical support team and act as the primary back-up to the Unit Manager.

EH&S/Quality/Reliability Leadership

• Accountable for their team's PSM training and support for PSM in the production area.
• Knows and advocates Life Critical Standards within the facility. Demonstrates priority and commitment through personal behavior and coaching in the field. Provides the needed positive and negative reinforcement to address deviations with urgency and ensures appropriate follow up and investigations.
• Partners with Operations Team area manager with accountability to investigate PSM-related incidents and close gaps.
• Primary accountability for PCS in the area. Drives best practices and continuous improvement in process variability and capability to meet customer needs and reduce scrap.
• Primary area focal point for customer excursions and high impact case owner.
• Accountability for MRB resolution process and driving reduced cycle-time on MRB decision-making.
• Partners with Unit Manager to ensure capital is allocated appropriately to improve consistency in the process and design out variability. Prioritizes projects that drive value for Qnity and its customers.
• Supports OEE improvements across the unit
• Shows courageous leadership by coaching, asking questions, and intervening when needed. Challenges status quo and past norms to make the operation more safe and effective.

People/Organizational Effectiveness

• Direct responsibility for operations Process Engineers, PCS focal point, Equipment Engineer and area Improvement Engineers.
• Supports Unit Manager to provide motivation, explanation, context, and communication purpose of messages to the empowered organization.
• Inspires and motivates the organization through leadership and strong connection with the team fostering an empowered organization. Shows appreciation for employees and maintains a servant leadership mindset.
• Accountable for maintaining and improving the expertise index for process engineers, ensuring that appropriate knowledge remains within the facility.
• Works closely with Human Resources as needed to hire employees with appropriate experience. Ensures employees are on-boarded and trained via a comprehensive technical training program to maximize their opportunity for success and increase core skillsets.
• Models Qnity's core values and behaviors and understands that his/her behavior shapes the team's culture
• Develops operation employees and ensures career success via goal-setting, performance management, promotion processes, and employee development plan.
• Interacts with peers in leadership to create talent opportunity and movement plan to ensure development of process engineers while maintaining key knowledge and experience adjacent to the processes.
• Enhances the working relationship between MT, PQE, the operations team, and the process engineers.
• Leads and coordinates Tech Team through projects, unplanned events, and targeted programs such as Statistical Process Control

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of industrial experience in a technical engineering role
• Mimics the core values of the Company, including Customer, Speed, Innovation & People
• Hands-on experience with statistical process control methods and design of experiments
• Ability to make good engineering judgments independently
• Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration
• Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

Preferred Requirements

• 5+ years of electronics market experience in a technical engineering role
• Specific product knowledge for products in business
• Specific application knowledge of customer base using these products
• Deep understanding of how the products are manufactured
• 6-sigma (green/black belt) project management.
• Experience on JMP software (data analysis software).
• Experience / Knowledge with multi-disciplinary engineering principles (mechanical, chemical metrology, etc.)

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