Day to Day Responsibilities:
1. Deliver products from EM to Corning’s customers on time.
. Understand and maintain the end-to-end flow between Corning and EMs, including demand and supply plan, provide operations support.
. Develop and implement KPI metrics and objectives to measure EM performance, including Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale, and Safety.
. Coordinate between Corning internal functions and EMs.
2. Create and execute the manufacturing operational strategy and objectives.
. Participate in business strategy build up and ensure our strategy and objectives aligned with overall business plan.
. Ensure our strategy implemented at our EMs without any deviation, understand our EMs’ needs and support our EMs to execute our strategy and objectives.
. Collaborate and prioritize our resource on new business and product opportunities drive by market requirements.
3. Collaborate with Supply Chain and sourcing to ensure accurate delivery performance at lowest cost.
. Develop the best order flow to be sure that we are meeting customer request at lowest cost.
. Develop and manage the data share between Corning and EMs, including but not limited to forecast, capacity, delivery schedule are updated.
. Partner with Global Supply Management to ensure rigorous procurement processes for ongoing outsourced manufacturing processes.
4. Implement manufacturing control processes to ensure ongoing product integrity.
. Drive continuous improvement on Quality Metrics. Establish and drive quality improvement programs with External Manufacturing Partners and Corning functional departments.
. Ensure strong utilization of engineering change controls and effectively manage and minimize end of life (EOL) issues.
. Coordinate and manage production and post-production activities on an ongoing basis.
. Clarify and secure the right drawings, spec, RM used for Corning products.
5. Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of manufacturing and supply chain
. Active management and execution of Cost reduction projects.
. Provide regular updates on cost reduction initiatives, product performance, process improvement opportunities and pushing EMs to implement.
6. Reporting and Score cards
. Daily production and shipment reports
. Monthly reports from each EM
. Monthly Spend Reports from each EM
. Weekly NPI status updates
Education & Experience
. bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain or relevant field of study. MBA is preferred.
. At least 5 years’ experience working with a US based MNC in different functions in Supply Chain, Engineering, Project Management positions.
. At least 3 years’ experience in External Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, managing supplier and vendors, OEM, ODM or related supplier management experience.
. Project management experience with hands on experience on how to use project management methodologies to manage multifunctional, multilocation projects.
. Experience in managing manufacturing/supply chain in high-mix low volume manufacturing.
Required Skills
. Fluent English speaking/writing is a must.
. Working experience in ERP system (SAP or other systems).
. Experience in MS office productivity tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) etc.
. Flexibility to work across multiply time-zone in multiple languages, flexibility to balance the working time between US calendar and Chinese calendar.
. Ability to travel (up to 40%) to EM sites in East and Central Asia to coordinate manufacturing activities.