Assistant Plant/Manufacturing Manager

Unitex•Mount Vernon, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Unitex is experiencing unprecedented growth and is seeking a highly skilled Production/Manufacturing Manager for its facility in Mount Vernon, NY. This role involves maintaining performance standards, supervising a diverse team including Production Supervisors and plant employees, ensuring compliance with company policies, implementing learning and development initiatives, overseeing health and safety operations, developing customer relationships, analyzing and improving operational processes, providing daily status reports, consulting on new company processes, promptly addressing issues to meet production goals, administering HR duties such as payroll and scheduling, and checking product quality and quantity.

Requirements

5 years of supervisory or 1+ year of managerial experience running a plant in a production/service environment
2+ years of proven customer service and handling customer demands
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic work setting
High degree of customer responsiveness
Understands production work flow
Proven ability to manage to standards

Nice To Haves

Bi-lingual English/Spanish highly preferred
Degree preferred

Responsibilities

Maintain individual and department performance at established standards
Supervise and direct a diverse task assortment across 4 Production Supervisors and an extensive team of plant employees: allocating relevant personnel for maximum efficiency
Ensure all processes meet internal Unitex policies and procedures by conducting consistent compliance checks
Implement successful learning and development initiatives to enhance performance across the entire team
Oversee health and safety operations across the plant, including carrying out notable investigations when necessary
Develop strong and productive relationships with customers across all levels of business
Analyze operational processes and performance; implementing solutions for improvement as necessary
Supply daily status reports, issue reports, highlight reports, and progress reports to maintain senior expectation
Provide consultation to the team concerning the introduction of new concepts with in company processes
Deal with all arising issues in a prompt manner; ensuring all production and productivity goals are achieved
Administer various HR duties, including payroll, weekly scheduling, employee relations, absence, and performance management issues
Check quality and quantity of products to maintain a high level of customer