Engineering Manager - Manufacturing

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are focused on providing a challenging and enriching career path with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are an innovative, global company with wide-ranging opportunities that include career-enhancing talent rotations. Our structured career paths will ensure that you know what it takes to build your ideal career at Weatherford when you join our Company. We also offer a comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance coverage, income protection plans, a 401(k) savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Weatherford is hiring a Manufacturing Engineering Manager for our West Hardy Road facility in Houston. This is a hands-on, rewarding role that you’ll design, develop and implement manufacturing processes, equipment and systems to enable optimized production efficiency while maintaining focus on cost efficient solutions, sustaining high quality product results, and enabling design for manufacturability in new designs. Provide guidance and support for solving complex technical problems that arise in manufacturing production.  Coordinate the orderly transition and installation of new processes and/or methods in accordance with product specifications with a Lean Manufacturing approach in an inclusive team in a fast-paced, progressive environment. Weatherford provides training, excellent benefits and fantastic career progression. 

Roles & Responsibilities

SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company’s Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices and complies with the Company’s Rules to Live By

• Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk
• Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations
• Supervisors & Managers should demonstrate effective safety leadership for the health and safety arrangements of all subordinates and for any persons visiting them while on the Company premises.

QUALITY

• Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System
• Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement
• Design and develop manufacturing processes, equipment, and systems at the plant level to improve process capability, quality and manufacturing readiness

OPERATIONS

• Partner with Engineering department on design process of new or revised products and coordinate smooth transition from R&D to production in Manufacturing

• Create BOMs and routings for newly released Part Numbers and revise BOMs and routings when processes are updated and/or Lean Manufacturing efforts create increased efficiency of the manufacturing steps

• Design, develop, test, source and cost-justify various tools, machinery and equipment for new or improved manufacturing methods

• Identify and develop collaborative solutions for continuous improvement on issues within the production workflow such as level loading, production bottlenecks, machine reliability, general production related work flow waste

• Prepare or direct the preparation of Model facility and/or equipment layout and detail drawings in CAD Engineering software

• Make key decisions, resolve issues and oversee projects to shape manufacturing success
• Lead ECN implementation, including review of drawing and attributes for completeness, providing guidance to Manufacturing team (e.g. part extension, BOM updates, router updates, scrap implementation, etc.) and coordinating the rest of the team (Finance, Purchasing, Planning, etc.) to ensure manufacturing readiness
• Provide disposition for NCRs on incoming products per Quality procedures for ME

• Provide technical guidance for manufacturing activities (e.g. technical support for Procurement, external vendors, troubleshooting support for shop floor, guidance to Customer Service for new part requests, etc.)
• Recommend and implement improvements to production processes, methods and controls
• Support the Quoting process and Order Management process by supplying pertinent information as required
• Write procedures and reports, including revisions to manufacturing documentation (e.g. PFT, Work Instructions, Technical Procedures, etc.)

COMMUNICATION

• Maintain effective communications with all key stakeholders, both internal and external where applicable
• Supervisors & Managers should clearly communicate expectations, roles and responsibilities to their reports.

• Collaborate with Engineering department to ensure all items (upper level and sub levels) of BOM are entered into Windchill
• Collaborate with Purchasing, Category Management and Manufacturing to simulate and assign the manufacturing COGS to the parts/product

• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to develop, innovate and implement manufacturing technology best practices

FINANCIAL

• All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses.
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure.

• Prepare feasibility studies and thorough cost justification for projects

• Monitor production output and collaborate to implement process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs

PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT

• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience.
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential.
• Supervisors are expected to actively engage with their employees to support talent management through Weatherford’s performance management process, including but not limited to objective setting, talent assessments, succession planning & regular coaching opportunities.
• Supervisors should collaborate with Human Resources & Training Development to drive strategies for the recruitment and retention of key personal and to foster an environment that supports the attraction and retention of a high-performing talented workforce.
• Assign projects and priorities to reports based on Drilling Services and Wireline production requirements
• Guide Electrical Tech Engineers on functions within the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Lab

VISION & LEADERSHIP

• Demonstrates leadership, ethical behaviour and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times

• Bachelors Degree from an Accredited University in Engineering (Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Technical science-based discipline preferred) or equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered
• 5+ years of management/supervisory experience
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing environment

PREFERRED

• Lean Manufacturing experience, or Lean Green Belt/Black Belt certification preferred
• Oil & Gas manufacturing experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

REQUIRED

• Knowledge of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering processes/principles within a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of machine design, welding, testing and/or any special manufacturing processes related to the product line (conformal coating, grinding, elastomer manufacturing, painting, bonding, etc.)
• Basic principles of electricity related to PCB assemblies
• Strong team leadership skills, be a self-starter, innovative and able to work with little or no supervision
• Ability to implement SPC
• PC skills including AutoCAD, (Mechanical Desktop a plus)

• MS Office suite software

PREFERRED

• Understand GD+T and dimensioning
• LabVIEW
• JDE