Global New Process Integration Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Strategic Leadership Role At MSA Safety

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career. At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day. Are you in? Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities

This strategic leadership role is responsible for identifying, planning, and implementing programs and initiatives that build and sustain best-in-class process integration standards and manufacturing plant engineering principles. The role partners closely with operations directors, managers, and professionals across the global network to define best practices, processes, and procedures for industrialization. Responsibilities also include coordinating and facilitating training related to industrialization.

The position serves as the global lead for new product industrialization and oversees a team of subject matter experts with expertise in industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, project management, supply chain, and quality. Collaboration with plant engineering teams is central to the role, with a focus on developing and deploying standardized approaches to manufacturing engineering across all global operations.

This role requires leadership in a multi-site, global environment with diverse products and processes. It involves applying a problem-solving mindset, leveraging lean manufacturing principles, and ensuring business process solutions are aligned with organizational goals. The position also provides strategic oversight of global manufacturing engineering standards and supports all aspects of new process integration.

Industrialization Strategic Leadership

• Lead the development of strategies for moving from product design to mass production.
• Drive New Product Development (NPD) process changes to ensure the success of Industrialization goals & objectives.
• Recommend, influence, and implement organizational structure changes to support the success of Industrialization.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available to support projects and goals (including resources external to MissionOPS and / or MSA).

New Process Integration Management

Design for Manufacturability (DFM) & Design for Assembly (DFA)

Governance

Qualifications

10 years manufacturing and assembly experience of complex electromechanical products that rely on some core materials technology.

Experience in managing distributed and indirect teams (domestically and internationally).

Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline or related field, preferably from an ABET accredited program

Advanced degree