Manufacturing Excellence Director - Applied Water (Chihuahua)

Core Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and coordinate the activities of Manufacturing Engineering local and Manufacturing Excellence regional teams
• Develop a strategic vision utilizing advanced technologies to optimize and enhance efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of manufacturing processes
• Manage Industry 4.0 Deployment and Conversion Costs Optimization efforts
• Provide support on the implementation of new technology in manufacturing, methods, materials, and advanced systems used to make the company's products
• Support the Integral Industry 4.0 implementation roadmap
• Ensure all project needs are being met to achieve goals in the original set time frame—this includes, but is not limited to, securing additional resources, setting daily or weekly priorities for project team members, communicating to all cross‑functional stakeholders, and working with more challenging situations or people
• Support operations integral software implementation programs as needed
• Offer technical guidance on complex process control challenges and lead in developing optimal solutions
• Coordinate best practice sharing across the team to accelerate learning and adaptation of best practices
• Drive meaningful standardization across the manufacturing facilities and manufacturing engineering teams
• Work with leadership and site teams to fund and staff programs
• Coordinate with PM and engineering team on new product development and the manufacturing requirements
• Drive projects related to ***** initiative related to manufacturing operations

Education and/or Experience

• 4‑year college degree with a major in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of manufacturing systems experience
• Experience in Automation Engineering and/or Systems Engineering preferred
• Program/project management experience required
• Ability and willingness for national and international travel up to 50%

Other Skills and Abilities

• Leadership
• Ability to coach project management, root cause analysis techniques, manufacturing guidelines and standards, process control, etc.
• Ability to effectively manage project development and engineering teams to complete projects on time and within budget
• Ability to lead and function collaboratively in a team environment, while effectively communicating across various levels of the organization
• Requires strong collaborative, communication and change‑management skills

Business Partnership

• Work with businesses and leaders across the organization to proactively identify, prioritize, facilitate and lead management improvement initiatives
• Develop a close cooperation and full alignment with ISC team and corporate/ISC initiatives and priorities

Behavioral Competencies

• Operates with integrity, transparency and humility
• Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Xylem
• Self‑motivated with strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively prepare and deliver technical reports and presentations
• Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results

Starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range.