) Provides leadership in problem solving, and technical expertise, to ensure timely resolution of short-term process and equipment issues, and higher level troubleshooting
) Provides direction to other technicians / engineers, coaches junior engineers, and provides guidance to maintenance personnel ) Provides general engineering and manufacturing skills and knowledge (understands theories and fundamentals), and capable of leading projects to get to root cause of issues, and put permanent solutions in place ) Provides disciplined project leadership across multiple stages of innovation for new product, process, cost reduction and capacity improvement initiatives ) Recommends and implements permanent solutions to long term performance issues, and improves existing and new technologies and processes ) Develops and leads some areas of the manufacturing and/or technical roadmap. Documents material, process and/or equipment to protect and contribute to Intellectual Property improvements ) Proficient in use of statistical data analysis and DOE in process problem solving and process/product improvement ) Identifies, justifies, and implements cost reduction, capacity enhancement, capital equipment and other improvement initiatives ) Introduces new products and technologies ) Tracks the effectiveness of projects and implemented cost reductions, using up-time, cost, productivity, and other appropriate measures ) Other tasks supervisor assigned