Build and lead the Supplier Manufacturing Development team, including hiring and developing Supplier Development Engineers and managers.
Assess supplier factories and identify opportunities to improve production flow, capacity, equipment, tooling, maintenance, productivity and workforce capability.
Lead hands-on improvement projects at key suppliers to improve yield, cycle time, cost and on-time delivery.
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Build and lead Cohu's new Supplier Manufacturing Development organization from the ground up — define its charter, hire and develop the team, set the operating rhythm, and establish how it works with Supply Chain, Quality and Engineering worldwide.
Serve as Cohu's senior manufacturing authority inside the supply base: walk a supplier's factory floor and form a fast, accurate judgment of whether that factory is well run — flow, layout, equipment capability, tooling, maintenance, changeover, planning, operator skill, yield and throughput — rather than whether its documentation passes an audit.
Raise the real manufacturing capability of the Cohu supplier base — capacity, cycle time, yield, cost and on-time delivery — through hands-on improvement work carried out at the supplier's site. Focus will be primarily in Asia.
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