# Manufacturing Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Carfair](null/companies/iiUXQF5iybFsb4mjL3zXGx.md)
**Location:** Winnipeg, Canada
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Manufacturing Engineering and Tooling

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## Description

**POSITION SUMMARY:**  
Responsible for managing the manufacturing engineering team at all Carfair sites. Provides technical support to Production teams. Works with the Manufacturing Engineering teams in ensuring processes are being followed.  
  
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:**

-    Lead and manage the manufacturing engineering team to ensure they are providing their deliverables as defined on the manufacturing engineering visibility board and to corporate standards and expectations. 

-   Ensure policies and processes are established and followed to ensure goals and objectives for all regulatory and legal requirements are met with respect to Health, Safety & Environmental programs.  
-   Ensure product manufacturing processes are standardized and completed safely across all Carfair plants. 
-   Demonstrate a relentless passion for process optimization and efficiency gains. 
-   Ensures PCRs are being reviewed and interpreted appropriately by the manufacturing engineering team and direction is being provided to production, QA, and the material groups to support these changes. 
-   Provide manufacturing engineering support to production, QA, customer service and other areas as required.
-   Work effectively as a member of the manufacturing management team to ensure operational metrics are achieved and any remedial action is actively pursued. 
-   Lead assigned groups and project teams on continuous improvement activities using lean concepts and tools. 
-   Review tasks and project assignments and balances the workload between group members to meet deadlines. 
-   Ensure that manpower assignments are being planned by cell and are communicated to production in advance. 
-   Ensure the manufacturing engineers in each cell are assigning locators for active parts, maintaining inventory maps for their area, and are supporting materials in improving material flow and resolving issues. 
-   Evaluate assigned employees and initiate corrective action where required. 
-   Initiates, evaluate and approves Standard Work Instructions and other documents as required. 
-   Specify and facilitate capital and equipment upgrades, installations or modifications and ensures approved projects are completed on time and within budget. 
-   Develop departmental budgets, ensures departmental spending is within budgeted levels and accounts for any deviations to the approved budget. 
-   Supports and also facilitates lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, value stream mapping, set-up reduction etc.) as required. 
-   Promote an environment of continuous improvement and teamwork. 
-   Ensure that manufacturing engineering is effectively participating in team meetings, ensuring that necessary action is taken between cross functional groups to resolve issues. 
-   Ensure process observations are conducted by each manufacturing engineer within their cell to ensure that assigned time standards are fair and consistent and manufacturing issues are identified and resolved in a timely manner.
-   Maintain necessary labour resource plans (such as the labour matrix). 
-   Monitor high level routings and submit routing change requests to process planning where appropriate. 
-   Works closely with the Engineering Manager, Director of Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities Manager in establishing and following metrics.
-   Ensures the manufacturing engineers are participating in Non-Conforming Parts (NCP) meetings as assigned. 
-   Initiates engineering change requests (ECRs) where appropriate. 
-   Support process planning and production engineering.
-   Responsible to ensure all key controls identified under their area of responsibility are designed and operating as outlined in the internal controls over financial reporting. 
-   Ensure policies and processes are established and adhered to ensure goals and objectives for all regulatory and legal requirements are met including organizational quality, environmental, health & safety programs. 
-   Other duties as assigned, including special projects.

  
**WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFULL:**

-   Manufacturing engineering or Mechanical Engineering degree/diploma or CET and/or related courses & work experience. 
-   Lean and/or APICS certification or applicable equivalent work experience.
-   Working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. 
-   Experience working as an effective team player. 
-   Leadership experience.
-   Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
-   Experience with Auto Cad and Oracle are desired.

  
**WHY JOIN OUR TEAM:**

-   We offer competitive wages and a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching GRRSP plan, life insurance, and disability programs.
-   The ability to advance your career with a growing company. 
-   Ongoing employee development through a variety of in-house training initiatives along with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions.
-   Employee social committee organizes numerous events throughout the year, including summer barbecues, holiday festivities, sporting events and tournaments, and much more.

  
**OUR WHY:**   
We exist to move people. Our mission is to design and deliver exceptional transportation solutions that are safe, accessible, e­fficient and reliable.  
  
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