Director, Global Engineering Processes And Vave

Milacron is looking for a Director, Global Engineering Processes and VAVE to join our team in Batavia, OH. As a Director, Global Engineering Processes and VAVE you will be responsible for driving standardization to reduce overall cost of manufacture, reduce time to design, improve serviceability, enhance the customer experience, and increase consistency of our products. You will collaborate with all manufacturing locations and other functional areas to optimize their effectiveness in meeting Key Performance Metrics. This individual should specialize in designing and developing procedures and strategies to enhance the value of products in a global organization.

What Milacron Offers You:

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance, which includes MD Live, RX help center, Medical Advocate Program, company paid short- & long-term disability.
• Opportunities for development and advancement
• Competitive pay
• Paid Parental Leave
• Generous 401K Matching Program – 3% (base pay) automatic contribution + $.50 for each additional dollar saved on the first 6% of pay saved*
• A robust PTO policy with 20 days of paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and 6 paid sick days!

What you’ll do:

• Coordinate with Operations/Materials/Sourcing to minimize waste and drive a VAVE and lean culture
• Provide Management with regular feedback on performance of technical issues, project issues, processes/tools, and team member performance.
• Global Value Analysis: works with all engineering groups and other cross functional teams to drive and deliver value to customers through features and cost reduction. Identify the lowest cost way and ensuring the highest worth to accomplish the functions of a product, process or service
• Delegate work assignments and ensure proper execution.
• Value Engineering: target costing and effective cost management, cost avoidance or cost reduction before and after production release.
• Ensure customer requirements are clearly understood, drive closure on open requirements, and verify requirements are satisfied.
• Partner with Operations/Manufacturing to ensure quality, on-time releases.
• Coordinate with other Engineering functions such as Electrical, Mechanical/Hydraulic, and Injection to ensure latest cost and quality improvements are implemented in a robust manner.
• Oversee estimating effort on VAVE projects and track progress.
• Identify risks, document, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate.
• Set priorities based on value to deliver set targets
• Global Standardization: Identifies or defines the best practices of all functional areas within Engineering; documents, trains, deploys, and maintains these practices. Identifies or defines design building blocks or re-use elements with proven value and performance and promotes the deployment and sustainment of these elements.]
• Continuously review and forecast team capacity/demand and escalate any resource issues in a timely manner.
• Provide daily direction to track and assigned priories globally.

Basic Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively delegate tasks
• Deep experience with Change Management
• Ability to identify technical risks and develop solutions
• Strong communicator able to provide detailed information in a concise manner and be able to tailor communications to different audiences
• Proven record for solving complex technical issues in a structured manner
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Relevant experience with mechanical analysis and tolerance/fit analysis
• Leadership experience in cross-functional engineering disciplines with an emphasis on standardization and common processes
• Solid performance with CREO, Windchill, and E1
• General knowledge of all forms of plastic processing machinery and design
• Experience in global VAVE design and project execution

Great to Haves:

• Ability to learn new skills at a fast pace
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including any days, shift, and weekends to ensure that the customer demand is met
• Dependable, honest, quick learner, good communication skills and team player

Physical Demands:

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 25lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.

Who we are:

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.

Milacron is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.

EEO: At Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences each individual has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.

DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.