Head of Production Engineering

2 months ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Advanced Navigation Full time

Job Overview

At Advanced Navigation, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Production Engineering professional to lead our Production Team. As the Head of Production Engineering, you will be responsible for maintaining and delivering Production systems, including production equipment, process, and training, quality management, returns management, and Design for Manufacture.

Key Responsibilities

    • Manage a team of 7 Production Engineers, based at Botany and Balcatta facilities. Provide direction, coaching, development, and support to the team, ensuring they deliver against Production Engineering quarterly goals and weekly targets.
    • Take a leadership role in Advanced Navigation's quarterly planning process, analyzing company goals against status and designing laser-focused Production Engineering goals for the team.
    • Represent and uphold core Production Engineering principles with internal stakeholders. Educate the business through formal and informal communications.
    • Partner with the Head of Production to maintain the Production Line. Work with the team to analyze failed products, equipment, or process to quarantine for analysis and repair. Drive scale in our high-performing product lines, identifying opportunities to increase throughput, design solutions, plan, and implement.
    • Work through the team to ensure Advanced Navigation's Production equipment is optimized, maintained, and available for use.
    • Partner with the Head of Purchasing & Logistics to ensure Advanced Navigation is working effectively with quality, innovative suppliers. Drive supplier selection protocols within the business.
    • Partner with the Support Team to ensure efficient Customer Returns Management. Work through the team to provide quality analysis and report findings.
    • Partner with the Head of R&D to evolve our Design for Manufacture practices. Through the team, provide a core contribution to Advanced Navigation's product development and production system design, contributing design for manufacture, BOM management, stock management, supplier selection, equipment management, verification, and test.

Requirements

    • 10+ years of experience in Production & Production Engineering functions, with a solid track record of managing people.
    • 5+ years of experience working in high-volume electronics manufacturing.
    • Capable of upskilling quickly to develop deep technical capabilities in a challenging technical domain.
    • Able to work collaboratively with various stakeholders across the business, including R&D Engineers, Production Technicians, and Heads of Departments.
    • FAI and Verification & Validation (V&V) experience, as well as PCB electronics design, testing, and troubleshooting.
    • Strong, efficient communication skills, both written and verbal.
    • Well-developed, structured problem-solving and debugging skills.
    • Highly motivated with an energetic, responsive, and decisive disposition.
    • Strong knowledge of WHS practices.
    • Proven high standard of attention to detail, time management, and follow-through.
    • Familiarity with IPC-A-610 and ISO 9001:2015.
    • Familiarity with an ERP tool, such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, or SAP.

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