Jobs at Superior Essex Communications

Owns strategy, business planning, and lifecycle management for premises fiber and assembly product lines. Acts as strategic connector across product management, manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain. Supports Directors with financial analysis, business plans, sales enablement, training, metrics, competitive and market analysis, trade show support, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Supervise maintenance and automation activities in a manufacturing plant, plan and schedule repairs and installations, develop PLC/HMI/drive control programs, create preventive maintenance programs, standardize equipment operator interfaces, coordinate fabrication/modifications, train staff, troubleshoot machinery, and liaise with engineering, production, and quality to improve equipment reliability and reduce operating costs.

Designs and improves production methods, machines, tooling, automation and processes for wire and cable manufacturing. Conducts engineering studies, cost-reduction analyses, feasibility studies, equipment acquisition, plant layout, and process documentation. Works with Quality, Production, Maintenance and vendors to implement improvements, support trial runs, and ensure safety and specification control.

Perform routine and specialized laboratory testing on materials, components, prototypes, and finished communications cable products. Record and analyze test data, develop and validate test procedures, maintain and calibrate equipment, support product development and engineering, train staff, ensure safety and quality compliance, and participate in continuous improvement.

Manage the company tax function including federal, state, and local compliance; prepare tax provisions under ASC 740 and IAS 12; support planning, audits, and multi-state tax issues; partner with finance and external advisors to optimize tax position.

Manage product engineering for communications cable products including standard BOM generation, Cablebuilder system operation, product specifications, part number management, and compliance with industry standards (ICEA, Telcordia). Lead product engineers, support sales technical requests, review product development projects, ensure Buy American compliance, and represent the company in standards activities. Travel under 10% required.

Prepare monthly financial schedules, journal entries, reconciliations, consolidation and management reports. Maintain chart of accounts, perform product cost and balance change analyses, prepare lease accounting under GAAP/IFRS, and support auditors and FP&A alignment.

Support design, development, validation, and commercialization of low-voltage instrumentation and control cables. Translate customer and market requirements into manufacturable constructions, troubleshoot field and manufacturing issues, maintain specifications and test reports, ensure standards compliance, support cost and packaging optimization, and provide technical customer support and training.