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Nexans · 1 hour ago

Technical Manager

Charleston-Huntington

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Nexans is seeking a Technical Manager to lead and develop the plant technical organization. The role focuses on maximizing customer satisfaction, ensuring product quality, and driving continuous improvement while managing people development and operational performance.

ElectronicsIndustrialManufacturing

Responsibilities

Process engineering ensures the consistency of the actions and initiatives related to process: process control development, process continuous improvement, process optimization breakthrough. It drives process continuous improvement activities, with the view to reduce manufacturing variance and improve competitiveness, and participates to industrial benchmark activities

Provide Tender Production cost for the Factory, including relevant investments

Keep Plant factory cost standards up to date

Propose investments and solutions in order to improve equipment capability and to produce new projects; is part of the specification preparation; is part of the team in charge of installation, commissioning, and ramp up of new equipment

Coordinate with Technical and R&D departments and relevant stakeholders qualification activities for new materials, new suppliers and new designs

Product evaluation process, product engineering to establish product specification

Participates in design reviews and handover engineering/manufacturing meetings and approves cable specifications

Ensures proper identification of industrial risks and that mitigating actions are in place

Supports the production team by driving or facilitating non conformities analysis and problem solving

Drives alert system for critical issues, including AMS; checks that actions are implemented and lessons learned are integrated

Ensures that the organization has the right skills and competences in place, and have a development plan for each member of the plant technical organization

Qualification

Business acumenIndustrial KPIsLeadership skillsProcess engineeringPreventive analysis toolsMScPhDIntercultural understandingResults DrivenHigh Standards in ExcellencePeople LeadershipCommunication skillsCustomer focusGlobal Team Player

Required

Strong Leadership skills (Coaching, influencing, leadership, motivating)

Business acumen and understanding of Industrial KPIs

Communication skills and knowledge (interpersonal skills, listening, oral communication, presentation, questioning, reading comprehension, written communication)

Abilities to understand and act according to intercultural differences

Results Driven

Wide exposure to different materials, processes and corresponding tools & methods

Wide exposure to preventive & analysis tools: 8D, analysis methods (Ishikawa, …), FMEA, SPC

MSc or PhD, with > 5-10 years technical / engineering / industrial experience in the cable industry

Language: English fluent

Core Competencies: Take Responsibility, Global Team Player, High Standards in Excellence, People Leadership and Initiative, Customer and Market Focus