Directs and coordinates activities for a manufacturing department to ensure the development of a high performing team with respect to operational discipline and positive employee relations while meeting the production schedule within the specified safety, process, cost, and quality requirements
Responsibilities: Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintains positive employee/employer relations within the team, ensuring practices are fair, consistent and in line with our Operating Philosophy. Lead and model a positive employee culture
- Ensures safe work practices and resolves safety issues within the team. Engages in the development and implementation of processes, behavior and culture to build world class safety performance, while ensuring compliance with all applicable OSHA and other regulatory standards
- Implements performance management, progressive discipline, attendance practices, policies, staffing and terminations. Provides training, coaching and feedback to associates
- Conducts daily/weekly team communications including work assignments, safety awareness and plant communications. Presents status daily at KPI meetings and conducts ongoing department meetings
- Executes and manages the production schedules
- Achieves stated metrics to include, but not limited to, safety, quality, service and cost. Assesses and addresses team’s performance to metrics
- Develops, interprets and ensures consistent enforcement of policies and procedures
- Develops and implements projects and initiatives that support the needs of the plant and business
- Responsible for time and attendance of all associates
- May manage multiple departments
- Analyze data and monitor work processes to detect trends and abnormalities. Develop and implement actions as required
- Review and arrange total workforce needs to meet future demand requirements by coordinating addition of direct factory associates with hiring agencies and planning appropriate levels of overtime
- Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays
- Creates and presents communications related to projects and trends to management and hourly associates
- Other duties as assigned
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS.) required with a technical degree preferred; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of prior supervisory experience is required. An additional four years of related manufacturing experience is strongly preferred
Excellent Relocation Benefits provided - Interested candidates send your resumes to or reach me at 888-738-5815 X 1353
