MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER DISPENSES

SCA is a leading global hygiene and forest products company. The Group develops and produces sustainable personal care, tissue and forest products. Sales are conducted in about 100 countries under many strong brands, including the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and regional brands, such as Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo and Vinda. As Europe’s largest private forest owner, SCA places considerable emphasis on sustainable forest management. The Group had about 44,000 employees year end 2013. Sales in 2013 amounted to SEK 93bn (EUR 10.7bn). SCA was founded in 1929, has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. For more information, visit www.sca.com.


Overview

As the Manufacturing Engineering Manager Dispensers, you will act as the key focal point of contact for the development of dispenser tooling, manufacturing, and assembly. Tork is one of SCA’s billion Euro brands and dispensers are one of the key drivers for the business as well as the front facing end users. We roughly place 6 million dispensers every year and ensuring function, quality and appearance is key for the brand and to our business. You will be a part of the team that leads the dispenser work within Category Professional Hygiene. You will also coordinate efforts with Global Hygiene Supply, Sourcing and Logistics as well as have heavy contacts with suppliers and logistic centers. You will be engaged in development of new products as well as continuous improvement and fixing quality issues for existing products. Since dispenser tooling, manufacturing, and assembly is important to transfer a product design in development to final product, you will be a competence that people rely on and turn to for all changes or new investments. It will also be your responsibility to actively spread knowledge in the organization and act as an expert and advisor to projects and colleagues in Global Hygiene Category and Business Groups. You will ensure CapEx are on the right level and that there are no issues in supply chain due to badly maintained, constructed and/or procured dispenser tools.

Main Tasks

Provide engineering support for the innovation teams.
Provide knowledge in tool management to ensure optimal requirement on suppliers and better protecting CapEx.
Provide technical expertise during the development and ongoing production of dispensers.
Identify and propose product and process improvement areas.
Keep maintenance plans for all tools and manage maintenance programs globally.
Build and maintain a broad and deep competence and knowledge in relevant technical area(s) in terms of SCA and competitor products, patents, technologies and materials as well as industrial trends.
Actively provide the Arenas, innovation teams and other parts of the organization with knowledge and direction.

Key Competencies

Minimum 5 years’ experience in a plastic injection molding environment.
5-10 years’ experience with plastic injection mold tool making (design and fabrication).
2-3 years’ experience in Plastic Part Design and Processing Moulding knowledge.
General understanding of manufacturing processes and assembly techniques.
In depth knowledge in the development, design review, production, installation, start-up, validation and maintenance processes for dispenser tooling, manufacturing, and assembly.
Some experience with metal fabrication tooling would be preferred.
Ability to be pro-active, communicate with high level of stakeholders, drive creation and implementation of plans.
Excellent understanding of open innovation work with many stakeholders.
Good project management skills are required.
Excellent written and verbal English.
Ability to travel.

Additional Information

SCA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability. EEO Employer M/F/Vet/Disabled.

For further informaton about the position, please contact recruitment consultant Thomas Olsson, Experis Engineering, +46 739 32 86 90.
Please apply via experis.se