Production Engineering Manager BU1 Asia/Pacific

Your Contribution

This position is primarily responsible for supporting the MAHLE Engine components plants in Japan (3 sites), Thailand (1 site), China (4 sites) and India (2 sites) with casting and machining production/manufacturing engineering best practices.

• Guide the plant personnel to ensure appropriate Process Technology and Production Systems are specified and installed, and assets are used productively and in line with customer demands.
• Provide advice to the plants for the development and implementation of low cost, high OEE equipment along with complementary systems and training to ensure line output and productivity are maximized, scrap rates and customer complaints are minimized, and robust monitoring, root cause and corrective action systems, MPS, TPM, poke yoke, kanban, and general lean manufacturing systems are fully understood and implemented.
• Monitor scrap and productivity and identify areas for improvement based on benchmarking and trend analysis. Support the plants to implement the identified improvements and build in lessons learnt.
• Follow up and encourage continuous improvement projects and ensure the ideas are shared and implemented in other plants across the regions.
• Instigate and/or actively support cost reduction, process and efficiency optimization, and problem solving etc.
• Assess the capability and competences of the engineering teams. Help to organize the creation of training and development plans, along with mentoring and appropriate training (internal, external, domestic and at other MAHLE plants) to develop competent, professional, local engineering teams.
• Support plants for customer audits, customer complaints and in new business development.

Your experience & Qualifications

• Successfully completed a degree in Production, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering or such like combined with at least 15 years work experience in metal casting and machining.
• Knowledge of aluminium gravity casting an advantage.
• High level interpersonal skills, able to communicate in an international environment and guide diverse teams.
• Very good English ability, spoken and written.
• Willingness to take the challenge for this international assignment based in Okegawa-shi (Tokyo) /Japan.

Working Location

Okegawa-shi, Saitama prefecture.

Regular business trips to the plants in Asia Pacific.

Our Offering
We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing
personal & career development opportunities.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right
candidate for this or other roles!

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with our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from all social, religious & ethnical
backgrounds, disabilities both mental and physical, identities (gender) and neurodivergent people