Associate Manager Automation

Job ID: 1847 

Alternate Locations: Mexico-Coahuila-Acuna 

Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, unparalleled curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell. They are Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

Reports To: Sr. ERA Manager

The Associate Manager Automation is responsible for planning, organizing, and management of the plant’s overall Product and Manufacturing digitalization activities to support manufacturing operations as well as managing all maintenance related responsibilities for the Motors area. 

Provides the necessary technical direction to improve productivity, process/product improvement and reduction of overall product cost, while meeting production schedules and Quality. Also serves as liaison between Design Engineering and plant’s manufacturing team.

Projects include but are not limited to New Products Introduction, Layouts, Automation, Cost Savings, and Compliance to Standards.

Responsibilities: 

• Supervise product, process, plant, manufacturing, assembly, and engineering projects to improve process capabilities, drive down cost, and improve manufacturing capabilities using Ignition, MES, OT Network.
• Support annual budget preparation through the development of capital projects/expenditures.
• Support all departments with improving Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Flex Productivity through capital expenditures, process check documentation, process improvements, design improvements, manufacturing recommendations and capacity improvements.
• Participate in manufacturing process decisions involving new and existing product lines to assess/improve equipment & capacity.
• Coordinate manufacturing engineering functional communication among resources to ensure cost, quality, and delivery objectives are met (internal, external, sales/marketing, engineering, design, etc.).
• Led Maintenance department management (Facilities and equipment) control of operational statistics (OEE, over time, lost time generated by equipment’s, preventive maintenance on time), inventory control of spare parts, control and elaboration of maintenance budget.
• Led all new product trial and pilot run activities and all internal projects implementation such as facilities improvement, new process start-up, continuous improvement action items execution

Qualifications: 

• 7 - 12 years of relevant experience using Fanuc Robotics, Allen Bradley PLC, Ignition.
• Extensive Project management skills
• Proven Team leadership skills
• 5 years of maintenance experience in high speed fabrication environment
• 5 years of supervisory experience for technical staff
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills  
• Adaptable and willingness to change
• Ability to work under pressure and multi-task
• Promotes teamwork

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments.