.As a Layer Support member of the APU will be the owner of the process of all manufacturing, and industrial engineering functions of the AssignedAPU. Duties includecomplete accountability of all process definition: machine analysis for productivity &process improvements, manufacturing based validation of all product designs and redesigns to ensure manufacturability, test and quality assurance, continuous improvements on lean implementations, and shop floor automation. Additional responsibilities include technical expertise in the pursuit of manufacturing excellence. Contributes on the APU in identifying and pursuing continuous improvement opportunities to include product quality, production productivity, material utilization, material yield enhancements, assistswith safety and environmental compliance, employee involvement and new product introductions. Accountable for the development and management of capital and budgets/plans for respective business units.Accountabilities:- Evaluate designs upstream and provide input such that they can be integrated into production efficiently with the least amount of time and labor and the highest degree of quality and repeatability.- Ensure level of effort estimates for the manufacturing and assembly of new designsand for customer change orders is provided for assessment of manufacturing cost.- Stabilize new products from R&D into Production by working proactively with all stakeholders and team members.- See that root causes of technical issues in production are identified and recorded and that solutions are developed to fix problems.- Interact with project teams for new products development giving insights from technical issues of previous products.- Recommend solutions for enhancing manufacturing efficiency.- Day-to-Day resolutions of manufacturing issues encountered duringexecution- Leads design and deployment of Manufacturing work instructions.- Creates and Maintains Process FMEAs and translates them into controlplans.- Tooling, fixturingand assembly-aid design,integration and implementation.- Lessons-Learned from previous builds or processmodifications.- Design for manufacturing analysisof new designs.- Accurate reporting, tracking and closureof manufacture-ability issues- Provide technical expertise to manage cost, quality and customer service while ensuring safety and compliance with government regulations.- Manage the entire capitalinvestment process for applicable businessarea.- Investigate, purchase, and support the implementation of tooling and equipment for future strategic initiatives.- Leads the applicable APU in the analysis of all existingproduction processes while incorporating Lean principles. Including:- Material utilization- Quality compliance- Material flow and throughput.- Recognize and proposedesign changes to improve manufacturability.- Support and participate in value engineering initiatives.- Owns machine & people capacityanalysis for the applicable APU