Senior Manufacturing R&D Manager (f/m/d)

at  Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions

Working at Freudenberg: “We will wow your world!” This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.
Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions is a Business Group of Freudenberg and a leading global supplier of branded cleaning systems as well as household and laundry care products. The portfolio includes brands such as O-Cedar®, and Vileda®. The company employs more than 3,600 people and hosts a global distribution network.
Some of your Benefits
Performance Related Bonus
Safe Environment
401K Match
Health Insurance
Paid Holidays
Aurora, IL
On-Site
Freudenberg Household Products LP (USA)
payments
$120,000-$130,000/annual
The Senior Manufacturing R&D Manager leads all the product and process related innovations activities for the GPNet site of responsibility.

• Manage all site innovation activities and R&D projects, including NPD implementation, VAVEs, cost saving or any other activities aimed to improve products and/or manufacturing processes.
• Support Manufacturing R&D Global counterparts in the deploy of Global initiatives in the site of allocation, coordinating other site players in the executional phase.
• Promote continuous improvements in manufacturing technologies and processes in the plant of allocation to guarantee competitiveness and alignment with company strategies.
• Lead the introduction of new technologies and/or new product as per FHCS sourcing strategies.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing R&D representative of the other sites and rest of the global FHCS technical community on global capability projects, cross-plants initiatives, and other possible activities in the technical fields aimed to maintain/increase competitiveness of FHCS Plants and FHCS products in general.
• Responsible for all new molds development in the site, from supplier scouting through release to production and for overall mold budget in the site.
• As a member of plant Leadership Team, he/she actively contributes to guarantee excellence in quality and cost competitiveness in the factory of responsibility.
• Coordinate Manufacturing R&D resources in the site and responsible for proper resource planning and allocation as well for talent growth and development.
• Represent the Production site inside the multifunctional category teams and ensure a flawless and efficient collaboration between Production Division, R&D Comp. Center/Regional Hubs and other relevant functions in all the aspects related to innovations.
• Contribute with local Engineering department and other relevant site functions, the establishment of the plant technology roadmap.
• Support the FHCS innovation pipeline contributing to new product idea generation