HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.
A Career at HARMAN
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About the Role:
The Senior Manager, AME is responsible for all advanced manufacturing engineering activities for the Lifestyle Division Professional Solution. On top of running business related support, participation in lighting and signal processing product launches is key. The AME engineering team is involved in the early phases of new products development to determine capital and labor estimates and also drives design for manufacturing to ensure new products meet quality and cost targets. Under the direction of the Senior Manager, the AME process groups will develop manufacturing plans to industrialize a new product. Industrialization includes the determination of manufacturing assembly processes required to building, planning, purchasing the JIG-s, excusing the fixture, and any other (by development defined) test equipment.
The senior AME manager has to be the main contact between operations/plants and development.
The position is fully responsible for all factories , including contract manufacturing-related AME activities within the Harman Lifestyle Division Professional Solution, with special definition, responsibility alignment between development and operations.
While test concept, software development has to be executed by engineering, all operations entity has to managed for timely aligned execution of tester, JIG-s, fixtures ordering and installation.
With software, hardware, test concept development related experience main contact for development in case of any escalation, delay.
This function has to support business with ~ 900 Mio USD yearly turnover.
Your Team
Your team will have direct report and indirect report. Indirect reports are the factory engineering managers, process definition with factories and R&D is key.
What You Will Do:
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Manage the AME organization (direct, indirect).
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Define roles and responsibilities within operations from AME point of view.
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Lead AME operations process end-to-end in the entire organization of Professional Solution.
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Be the first line contact to development.
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Work out processes with quality about complain related improvements.
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Build, maintain and improve continuous improvement system.
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Provides cost estimation for equipment during new product introduction phase.
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Develops recommendations to the Project Team for the best assembly equipment and processes to efficiently meet the capabilities as defined by the Project Management.
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Share concepts with other involved sites to assure standardization and taking into account lessons learned.
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Build up, work out a process to ensure new products are designed to minimize the manufacturing cost and align with process capability and taking account lessons learned.
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Support equipment ordering, installation, start up and ramp up globally on other involved sites.
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Support equipment-readiness based on project milestones.
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Develop equipment for serial condition and to basis business case, supporting other manufacturing sites.
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Continuously monitor and evaluate new processes, technologies in connection with new products to assure the most efficient industrialization to meet with basis business case.
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Drives standardization globally with all manufacturing regions on process equipment and materials to ensure global standards.
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Drives industrialization and manufacturing standard for optimization projects.
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Review readiness of operation for projects.
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In case of development delay, find solutions with development for solution from HW point of view.
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Manage department budgets for entire group including compensation, benefits and expense.
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Manage manufacturing capital spending in the region.
What You Need:
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BA/BSc Degree; MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
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10+ years of experience in AME role manufacturing.
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Test process definition experience is welcomed.
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Strong analytical skills.
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Knowledge in SW, HW development process.
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Very good people, communication, collaboration management.
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Fluent English knowledge.
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Capability, willingness to work in a worldwide , cross-functional environment.
Eligible for travelling:
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Willingness to travel up to 25 % of the time.
What We Offer:
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Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
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Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.).
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Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies.
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An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in an innovative and collaborative culture.
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“Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
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Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that pushes you to give your best.
HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
What We Do
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with HARMAN!
