Area Manager - Stamping Press Operations

Midway Products Brand•Findlay, OH

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Area Manager - Stamping Press Operations is responsible for overseeing production team leaders and members, managing the manufacturing process, ensuring safety, quality, and maintenance standards are met. This role involves planning and directing production activities, establishing priorities, and coordinating with various departments to optimize production and resource utilization. The manager will analyze reports to identify and resolve production issues, implement improvements, and consult with engineering on equipment modifications. Responsibilities also include investigating and resolving team member complaints, promoting lean manufacturing principles, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies, safety, quality, and environmental standards. Specific duties in the transfer area include managing teammates knowledgeable in die setting, press parameters, and initiating production runs. This includes performing quality inspections, transporting and setting up dies, installing and aligning dies, training part packers, and maximizing job/die performance. The role requires documenting die and press issues, collaborating with improvement teams, and making adjustments to minimize downtime. Small maintenance repairs may also be required, along with strict adherence to safety regulations and maintaining housekeeping standards.

Requirements

Must be mechanically inclined and have initiative to drive improvement to meet established performance goals.
Must work to acquire acceptable training to operate a crane and forklift.
Bilingual in Spanish and English
Near visual acuity and accommodation are required for reading machine dial gauges, blueprints and precision measuring instruments used in the inspection of parts.
Hearing ability is needed to monitor machine sounds to identify and diagnose changes to take appropriate action.

Nice To Haves

Prefer five (5) years supervisory experience in a metal stamping facility.

Responsibilities

Establishes the duties and responsibilities for production team leaders and members.
Manages, trains, instructs and evaluates team members as team players.
Directs the manufacturing process, safety, maintenance, quality methods and procedures.
Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities.
Coordinates production activities with production control, maintenance, tool room, and quality control.
Reviews and analyzes production, quality, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of non-conformity.
Implements operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality.
Consults with engineering personnel relative to modification of machines and equipment.
Conducts investigations and meetings to resolve team member complaints.
Responsible for working towards the concept of lean manufacturing.
Maintains compliance with organizational policies, and safety standards.
Forecasts labor requirements and recommends equipment or layout changes.
Complies with all quality and environmental system requirements.
Contributes ideas and actions promoting environmentally sound business practices.
Works in conjunction with the Production Manager and Team Leader, to ensure compliance to all quality and environmental systems.
Treats all other team members with respect and dignity.
Performs other essential functions as assigned.
Will have complete knowledge of die setting, press parameters, and the ability to start the press from a complete shutdown condition.
Initiates press production runs to a continuous mode.
Performs quality inspection checks, First Off/Last Off inspections and all “Inspection Strategy” procedures.
Transports dies, performs die sets up and changes dies in transfer press according to the production schedule.
Performs all rail setups and makes sure they are hooked up correctly and working properly.
Installs, positions, and aligns dies on the bolster.
Trains part packers on how to perform their job properly.
Must be able to maximize each job/die when it is in the press.
Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through documented Team discussions.
Improvement events will be used to optimize utilization of the transfer presses.
Must document all issues with a die and/or press in detail and communicate those issues to the Press Improvement Teams.
Works intimately with the Press Improvement Team, Tool & Die and Maintenance to optimize press utilization, changeover time, press repairs and die repairs.
Required to make gripper adjustments, end stop adjustments and adjust coil feed parameters to minimize press downtime.
Performs small maintenance repairs, as needed.
Strictly adheres to all safety regulations, according to company policy.
Establish and maintain excellent housekeeping habits.