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

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.

Manager, Strategic NPI Manufacturing