Automation manager

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Technical Project Manager (Automation) located in Suzhou Wuzhong

Reporting to the Senior Automation Manager, the Technical Project Manager role involves…

What a typical day looks like:

• Specific customer management and communication.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Define project task and resource requirements. Mange project resource allocation.
• Plan and control project timelines.
• Estimate project budget and control the cost within the budget.
• Lead the implementation of an automation project.
• Collaboration with other functions to compliancy the law and rules (Information Security, Finance, EHS, ESD, CE, UL, etc)
• Search for potential project and potential product.
• Involve the develop and deploy of potential project and potential product.
• Search for potential standard and potential governance approach.
• Involve the develop and deploy of potential standard and potential governance approach.
• Lead the knowledge transfer to assigned global partners and partnership certification.
• Lead the project technical support to assigned global partners and feedback for continuously improvement.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Technical Savvy, system oriented, great attitude to machines & processes
• Positive, open, passionate, creative, patience, hands-on, love to learn and continuously improve
• Objective, critical thinking and problem-solving skill
• Well organized, pays attention to details, methodical
• Ownership for team task, good team player, working under pressure & multi-tasking.
• Time flexibility due to global supplier in different time zones
• Available oversea travel to leadership project & team at global sites
• Great communicator – verbally and written
• Excellent English skills in listen, read, write and oral
• High level of Administration skills
• Has manufacturing process or automation development background is prior.
• Proficiency in engineering software is prior. (C++, LabView, PLC, SolidWorks, Robot, Vision etc ) which support for designing review
• A similar TPM role with a minimum of 5 years of experience
• Successfully manage on at least 1 automation project with above $1M independently  
• Responsible for development & deployment for automation project or automatic product via systematic tool
• Project planning & schedule control & quality control & project management
• Estimate project cost, and implement project to control the cost within the budget
• System verification in whole development process with good abilities of troubleshooting & high-quality awareness
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Know DFMEA, PFMEA, DOE, CPK, GR&R, related assistance tools be plus
• Familiar related standard & system, like ISO9001, TS16949, EMS IPC-3 be plus
• Have a wide range of interests

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Social Insurance
• Life Insurance
• PTO

Job Category

Production Engineering

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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