Sr Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

About Us:

How many companies can say they’ve been in business for over 177 years?!

Here at ZEISS, we certainly can! As the pioneers of science, ZEISS handles the everchanging environments in a fast-paced world, meeting it with cutting edge of technologies and continuous advancements.

ZEISS believes that innovation and technology are the key to a sustainable future and solutions for global change.

We have a diverse range of portfolios throughout the ZEISS family in segments like, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology.

We are a global company with over 42,000 employees and have over 4,000 in the US and Canada alone! Make a difference, come join the team!

What’s the role?  

The XRM Sr.

Manager, Manufacturing Engineering manages all aspects related to the product quality and business process excellence development.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:


* Consulting with the Management team and the employees to ensure all processes, which are an essential part of the management system are developed, implemented, realized and sustained.


* Periodically review applicable laws, regulations, and standards to ensure continued compliance.


* Control of documents and records of local processes (participation to approval, release management thru ECO process, communication of approved documents, administration of process information center.)


* Coordination of the continuous improvement process (CIP) at XRM.


* Duty and right for escalation to the General Manager and to the Management of the Research Microscopy Solutions (RMS) Board in case of deviations on the products and processes.


* Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified products.

Collaborates in the development of acceptance tests and inspection criteria and procedures with project and systems engineering.

Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.

The problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.


* Coordinate supplier management process with the purchasing department to ensure qualified suppliers are selected, approved, and monitored.


* Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.


* Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.


* Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.


* Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.


* Analyze existing business processes together with business process owners to evaluate current capabilities and identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.

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