MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

Ariston Group is a global leader in sustainable thermal comfort that offers a unique, extensive range of solutions for climate comfort, water heating and air handling, as well as components and burners. Listed on Euronext Milan since November 2021, in 2024 the group reported over 2.6-billion-euro revenues, with over 10,000 employees, direct presence in 40 countries in 5 continents, 28 production sites and 28 research and development centers. The group demonstrates its commitment to sustainability through the development of renewable and high efficiency solutions, such as heat pumps, water heating heat pumps, hybrids, domestic ventilation, air handling and solar thermal systems. The group also stands out for its continuous investment in technological innovation, digitalization, and advanced connectivity solutions. The group operates under global strategic brands Ariston, Elco and Wolf, and brands such as Calorex, NTI, HTP, Atag, Brink, Chromagen, Racold, as well as Thermowatt and Ecoflam in the components and burners business.
 

We are looking for a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING whose main responsibility is driving industrial projects related Wuxi Plant. The work includes new product introduction, production efficiency, cost control, quality improvement and technical upgrading.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acting as project manager for plant projects, new technology introduction or multi-supplier projects in a single plant.
• Supporting the Manufacturing Engineering Manager/Director in the execution of major and complex manufacturing engineering projects/initiatives.
• Developing and consolidating a central state-of-the-art knowledge on all key manufacturing process technologies relevant for the Group.
• Maintaining connections with current and potential suppliers to follow the latest technological developments and to understand the suppliers’ future roadmap.
• Redaction of standard RFQ documents.
• Maintaining connections with plants and R&D to understand current technology deployment and improvement opportunities.
• Introduce new products into production, provide technical support for production and process.
• Solve the product failure problems from Quality, Production and other departments.
• Carry out continuous quality improvement and cost reduction activities.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above. Mechanical, automation, preferred.
• 3-5 years working experience. Home appliance, Water Heaters ,Heat pump water heater or air-conditioner design experience preferred.
• Reading and written English is basic, English speaking is must.
• 2D CAD drawings skills on production plant layout.
• Familiar with machining, materials, surface treatment, application of all kinds of standard parts and other related knowledge. Home appliance related experience is preferred.
• Technical competences:
• Metal forming (punching, bending).
• Welding (TIG-MIG-PLASMA-LASER).
• Automation.
• Ability to solve technical problems independently and strong sense of innovation.

The ideal candidate:
•    The ideal candidate knows how to concretely deploy industrial projects as Project Manager and apply the WCM methodology (EEM Pillar) in manufacturing plants can drive continuous improvement.
•    She/he has at least 3-5 years of experience in production, industrial engineering, production line installation, start-up and commissioning, and/or supplier management.
•    She/he has strong mechanical background.
•    She/he is eager to phase-out and solve problems in industrial processes.
•    She/he has a pragmatic and entrepreneurial spirit, organizational and planning skills, ability to work in team and to engage and mobilize the wider organization.
•    She/he is available to frequent business trips to support the assigned plants.
•    Proficiently master 2D CAD software, ability to use SAP and Dassault PLM is considered a plus.
•    Have basic electric design know how.
•    Have good written and spoken English skills for an efficient daily global communication.

Location: Wuxi, China.

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