Methods Manager

• Meaningful work with direct impact on operational performance and business outcomes
• Leadership opportunities on transformative projects across global manufacturing operations
• Supportive culture that encourages innovation, technical growth, and continuous learning
• Access to specialized training and development to advance your technical expertise

Bring your industrial engineering expertise to a team that's ready to achieve great things together!

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In a context of strong business growth and site expansion, the Methods Manager leads the Methods function of the plant. Reporting to the Plant Manager and as a member of the Plant Management Committee, the role is accountable for designing, industrializing and continuously improving the manufacturing processes of prefabricated data center projects, ensuring that the plant has the right methods, people capabilities, equipment reliability, digital security and data quality to deliver customer projects safely, on time, with the required quality and at the target cost.

The role brings together five teams under one leadership: project methods, process & ERP methods with continuous improvement, trainers, maintenance engineering, site cybersecurity & digital, and site data governance.

Secure Power - Prefabricated Data Center (ETO)

• Lead, develop and engage the Methods organization (methods engineers, trainers, maintenance, cybersecurity and data roles), with full people management and budgetary accountability.
• Act as a member of the Plant Management Committee, contributing to the site strategy.
• Define the Methods roadmap and annual plan aligned with plant growth, capacity ramp-up and the Schneider Performance System.
• Own the Methods budget (OPEX and CAPEX), prepare investment cases and ensure the profitability of investments (ROI, payback).
• Ensure each team member operates under the correct standard job code and drive skills development, succession and career paths within the function.
• Act as data domain owner for the Methods function, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of its data.
• Lead the team of methods engineers dedicated to customer projects, ensuring the industrialization of each new ETO project from handover to shipment.
• Design and optimize manufacturing, warehousing and material-handling processes, layouts, workstations and shop-floor space allocation for each project.
• Secure clear-to-build readiness: work instructions, routings, tooling, process documentation and process risk analysis (PFMEA) in place before production starts.
• Run the weekly Methods review: project industrialization status, capacity vs. load, training, maintenance, cyber and data KPIs.
• Participate in SIM cycles and Plant Management Committee meetings; escalate and resolve cross-functional issues.
• Validate standard times, routings and layouts before production release of each project.
• Prepare and follow up CAPEX requests, investment business cases and supplier/contractor quotations for equipment and tooling.
• Lead Kaizen events and improvement workshops and sustain results through standards.
• Review the skills matrix and training plan against the quarterly hiring plan.
• Review the preventive maintenance plan.
• Review cybersecurity compliance status, open vulnerabilities and data quality dashboards with the CSL and Site Data Leader.
• Conduct one-to-ones, performance reviews and development plans for the team.

Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain