Quality Execution: Ensures technical success of programs by understanding customer needs, staffing programs with appropriate resourcing, and driving continuous improvement of tools and processes. Understands and is able to identify leading indicators of project challenges, and takes mitigating actions as necessary. Maintains and improves the Quality Management System through process ownership and CAPA resolution.
Talent Acquisition and Development: Expands and grows technical and leadership competencies by hiring diverse and high potential talent that enhances our people, product and process capabilities. Establishes and achieves group growth objectives through headcount growth and upskilling employee skillsets needed to support ongoing customer demands.
Responsible to exemplify and hold their team accountable to demonstrating the Plexus Core Values. Leader will focus on evaluating potential, driving succession planning, and ensuring their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.
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Develop, communicate, and execute the forward growth strategy for assigned commodities. Conduct industry research and have a high degree of business knowledge of the manufacturers, suppliers and market place.
Establish performance objectives and associated metrics for the Commodities Group. Track the performance and report progress on a monthly or quarterly basis as directed.
Support sites in the region when critical component escalations arise.
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In collaborations with Program Management; analyze Customer demand to enable effective inventory management, production scheduling, customer satisfaction and procurement decisions.
Create and analyze what-if scenarios to simulate the impact to Plexus based on various demand changes and unified plan.
Create and maintain Master Production Schedules (MPS) and generate Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and proactively mitigate potential disruptions to production efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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Build and embed Quality Awareness in Operations by ensuring effectiveness of training and inspections. Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures.
Ensures compliance of customer requirements, industry standards, and safety in the workplace. Primary interface with customers on quality related matters as well as lead to improve incoming customer inquires to reduce Return Material Authorizations (RMAs). Participate and support regulatory and customer audits at site.
Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance. Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met as well as look for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work. Delivers work in way a that eliminates scrap or rework. Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed.
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Create, analyze, and distribute various department reports so site can understand inventory requirements and ensure proper/timely execution of inventory activities.
Analyze and understand the root causes of process or inventory deviations and provide summary and exception reports to site management personnel.
Develop reporting methodologies that illustrate trends, issues, and areas where improvement may be needed.
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Understand overall capacity loading requirements and needs of the factory.
Establish and review the production schedule to ensure customer commitments and the needs of Plexus are met.
Monitor production schedule performance and inventory levels of raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods to ensure optimal stock levels to maintain the production schedule.
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In collaborations with Program Management; analyze Customer demand to enable effective inventory management, production scheduling, customer satisfaction and procurement decisions.
Create and analyze what-if scenarios to simulate the impact to Plexus based on various demand changes and unified plan.
Create and maintain Master Production Schedules (MPS) and generate Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and proactively mitigate potential disruptions to production efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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Responsible for the competence, training and development of the Planning team, and ensure the functional teams adhere to SOP and Work Instructions.
Facilitate collaborative processes with key functional teams (i.e. Materials, Production, Program Management, and Finance) that drive operational excellence.
Support Demand Management and Planning processes related to Capacity Planning and Sales, Inventory, Operations & Planning.
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Responsible for purchasing of materials in accordance with the guidelines set forth by Plexus management and the customer's contract in terms of AVL adherence, unit price, quality and delivery.
Makes tactical buying decisions with respect to the placement and management of all purchase orders. This process encompasses order placement, rescheduling and cancellations, as well as timely resolution of non conforming material, goods in discrepancies and invoice queries.
Minimize inventory while maintaining adequate material to meet production plans. Initiate appropriate corrective actions and escalation to avoid impacting the production schedule.
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Develops / executes Manufacturing solutions / Provide services that are high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy the customer's requirements while establishing an area of technical specialty (in-discipline) and applies process improvement or troubleshooting as it applies to their role.
Utilizes appropriate tools to perform necessary work including creation, analysis, and verification of documentation, programs, models, processes or production as it applies to their role.
Demonstrates an intermediate, discipline-specific understanding of how they support the full Plexus Manufacturing processes / Product Requirements & Specifications / cross discipline OR supplier coordination, as it applies to their role.
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Executes Manufacturing solutions/ Provide services that are high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy the customer's requirements and applies process improvement or troubleshooting as it applies to their role.
Utilizes appropriate tools to perform necessary work including creation, analysis, and verification of documentation, programs, models, processes or production as it applies to their role.
Demonstrates a basic, discipline-specific understanding of how they support the full Plexus Manufacturing processes / Product Requirements & Specifications as it applies to their role.
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PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: Assist the CI Engineers in general projects and experiments that reduce costs and improve the manufacturing flow of products
Able to work cooperatively in a team & cross functional team(s) as needed Able to maintain a level temperament in a stressful environment Openly and proactively shares information, knowledge & experience with co-workers Willing to take on additional assignments
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: Perform time studies, cap model as needed to demonstrate the expected output for an operation, for cost recovery systems, and for factory layouts. All t support Value Stream Transformation and Transformation Cost Improvement work.
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Execution of Production Schedules to Meet KPIs. Provide effective leadership to the manufacturing team to ensure implementation of strategies for manufacturing metrics, i.e. OTD, scrap reduction, yield, productivity and inventory. Participate in Operation Review meeting.
Planning & Management of Resources. Develop and retain a multi-level results-focused team. Drive engagement and monitor operators' performance including taking the disciplinary actions. Drive cross training of manufacturing teams to ensure maximum labor flexibility and efficiency
Ensure Compliance to Customer Requirements and Plexus Standards. Lead and drive RCCA for “why made” of defect/reject produced by his/her team. Drive customer service excellence culture within areas of control. Ensure RBA compliance and work place health and safety issues
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Optimize NPI for HMLV Reality: Continuously evaluate and evolve our NPI methodologies to ensure they are lean, highly agile, and effective for rapid changeovers and customized mechanical manufacturing.
Strategic Customer Alignment: Partner closely with Customer Managers and Directors to stay ahead of the curve on new business awards. Ensure early, proactive engagement of the NPI Team to define tooling, fixturing, and line requirements well before the first build.
Architect Robust Technical Frameworks: Develop and deploy a methodical, data-driven NPI approach tailored for complex mechanical assemblies. Lead the execution of customer engagement strategies, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), First Article Inspections (FAI), and rigorous product qualifications.
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Directing the Supplier Quality Function owning the Supplier Quality Strategy and employing it in such a way to add value to the Supply Chain while maintaining compliance to the Plexus Quality Management System (QMS).
Takes ownership of portions of the QMS leading a team responsible for supplier quality processes and tools spanning multiple highly regulated industries using a risk based approach. In addition owns receiving inspection processes and the software system managing supplier quality processes, receiving inspection and non-conforming material management supporting all Plexus sites. Ownership includes developing and applying key process indicators and metrics to measure compliance and drive operational rigor throughout the Supplier Quality Function.
Directs the Plexus Counterfeit Controls and Mitigation Program including the Policy, Processes and templates used to maximize authentic material, detect suspect material entering the supply chain and maintaining strict adherence to industry standards.
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Executes Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) on maintenance, calibration and preventive maintenance of laboratory equipment. Ensure the disposal of generated waste is complying with SOP. Execute work per SOP and forms in document control system (DCS) for lab process and operation.
Utilizes appropriate tools to perform the work plan to reduce chemical wastage, contamination and laboratory equipment optimization.
Serves as a technical and/or project team lead with discipline-specific understanding and responsible for the lab process and test equipment validation. Perform troubleshooting and solve the chemical problem issue.
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Develops engineering/product concepts that are high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy the customer's requirements.
Successfully executes responsibilities in adherence to Plexus' engineering process.
Demonstrates a clear, discipline-specific understanding of the full value stream (Conceptualize, Design, Commercialize, Manufacture, Fulfill, Sustain) as it applies to their role.
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Performs verification of supplier related quality issues against defined criteria and prepares all paperwork necessary to return material.
Receives and reviews nonconforming material reports to ensure that material is properly identified and packaged to ensure its integrity until dispositioned, and executes site containment actions for supplier quality related issues
Supports the collection of supplier quality performance information in order to monitor supplier performance.
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Report basic feedback to Focus Factory and Customer Focused Team with issues during the shift, in order to help continuous improvement activities.
Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance. Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met as well as look for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work. Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed.
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Executes Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) on maintenance, calibration and preventive maintenance of laboratory equipment. Ensure the disposal of generated waste is complying with SOP. Execute work per SOP and forms in document control system (DCS) for lab process and operation.
Utilizes appropriate tools to perform the work plan to reduce chemical wastage, contamination and laboratory equipment optimization.
Serves as a technical and/or project team lead with discipline-specific understanding and responsible for the lab process and test equipment validation. Perform troubleshooting and solve the chemical problem issue.
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Plan and execute brand events including Roadshows, New Launches, Customer Events, Showroom activation and all other related brand events. Ad hoc weekend work is required to execute events. Conduct event post-mortem.
Support the Senior Marketing Manager to work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high quality work for creative, PR and media buying, launch for the brand
Lead, plan and manage customer engagement programme, including maintaining CRM database and CRM website, planning quarterly events and festive campaigns, manage outreach of partners and manage customer communications via EDMs.
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