Manager Advanced Manufacturing Engineering
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About the Role
Vertiv seeks an Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager to lead the Busbar product line across EMEA. The role owns industrialization strategy, manufacturing readiness, automation roadmap, and CAPEX planning.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the AME function for the Busbar product line across EMEA (RAK in UAE and Burnfoot in Ireland)
- Own NPDI readiness for Busbar and ensure all new products, product changes, and transfer projects are launched with full manufacturing readiness
- Lead prototype, pilot, and pre production manufacturing readiness activities
- Drive design for manufacturability and design for assembly reviews
- Standardize manufacturing methods, process flows, layouts, tooling concepts, time standards, and documentation across both plants
- Own the automation and manufacturing technology roadmap for Busbar in EMEA
- Lead capacity planning activities for product transfers, localization, expansions
- Prepare, justify, and support execution of CAPEX related to industrialization, automation, NPDI
- Lead strategic process improvement initiatives focused on productivity, labor efficiency, flow, quality improvement, waste reduction, and cost optimization
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles, Kaizen methods, industrial engineering tools, and structured problem solving
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or related technical field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in advanced manufacturing engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrialization, or technical operations
- Proven experience with NPDI, prototype builds, process industrialization, automation, capacity planning, and CAPEX execution
- Strong experience in a manufacturing environment with responsibility for process development, launch readiness, and cross functional project execution
- Experience working in a matrix organization with product/BU and plant interfaces
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing process development, tooling, fixtures, production readiness, and industrialization methods
- Strong project management and execution capability
- Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills
- Good understanding of Lean manufacturing, standard work, capacity analysis, line balancing, and process optimization
- Willingness to travel regularly within EMEA
- Fluent English
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Job Description
- The Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Busbar EMEA is fully responsible for the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering agenda for the Busbar product line across EMEA, with primary scope across RAK, UAE and Burnfoot, Ireland.
- Reporting to the AME Director EMEA, this role leads the industrialization strategy, manufacturing readiness, technology roadmap, and cross site AME execution required to support business growth, successful product launches, and long term manufacturing competitiveness.
- The role owns NPDI readiness, prototype and pilot manufacturing support, process industrialization, automation roadmap, capacity planning, CAPEX planning, and process standardization for Busbar across EMEA.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the AME function for the Busbar product line across EMEA (RAK in UAE and Burnfoot in Ireland).
- Be fully accountable for Busbar AME priorities, execution, standards, and roadmap. Lead, organize, and develop the AME team in RAK and Burnfoot.
- The main AME point of contact for BB within BU, plant and central functions.
- Own NPDI readiness for Busbar and ensure all new products, product changes, and transfer projects are launched with full manufacturing readiness in place.
- Lead prototype, pilot, and pre production manufacturing readiness activities.
- Ensure processes, layouts, tooling, fixtures, equipment, work instructions, and test capabilities are prepared to support successful launch and stable ramp up.
- Coordinate industrialization activities with Product Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and local Manufacturing Engineering teams.
- Drive design for manufacturability and design for assembly reviews to ensure efficient and scalable manufacturing implementation.
- Standardize manufacturing methods, process flows, layouts, tooling concepts, time standards, and documentation across both plants.
- Drive best practice sharing and replication of successful manufacturing solutions across sites. Own the automation and manufacturing technology roadmap for Busbar in EMEA.
- Identify, evaluate and implement automation, digitalization, tooling, fixtures, equipment, and process technology solutions that improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
- Lead capacity planning activities for product transfers, localization, expansions. Prepare, justify, and support execution of CAPEX related to industrialization, automation, NPDI.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Operations or another related technical field.
- Language skills: Fluent English
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in advanced manufacturing engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrialization, or technical operations.
- Proven experience with NPDI, prototype builds, process industrialization, automation, capacity planning, and CAPEX execution.
- Strong experience in a manufacturing environment with responsibility for process development, launch readiness, and cross functional project execution.
- Experience working in a matrix organization with product / BU and plant interfaces.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing process development, tooling, fixtures, production readiness, and industrialization methods.
- Strong project management and execution capability. Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills.
- Good understanding of Lean manufacturing, standard work, capacity analysis, line balancing, and process optimization.
- Willingness to travel regularly within EMEA.
Attitudes
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving capability
- Ability to lead through influence across multiple sites and functions
- Experience with governance, KPI management, and structured operating routines
- High agility, ownership, and execution focus in a fast changing environment
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