Manager, Area Senior
About The Position
The Senior Area Manager manages a manufacturing area at the Bellwood, Illinois facility, which manufactures finished products for the global OEM automotive industry. The role plans, organizes, and leads a designated production cell or series of processes to meet short- and long-term business-plan objectives for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and teamwork. It has budget and P&L responsibility and is accountable for achieving or exceeding LRP objectives, reducing major cost drivers, and increasing contribution margin. The position develops and implements programs and a comprehensive manufacturing operations strategy to improve safety, quality, cost, and delivery, and to ensure products are manufactured on time to required standards. It analyzes information including sales, schedule releases, finished and in-process materials, and employment to meet customer expectations. Responsibilities also cover approved policies and programs for material flow and cost across production and inventory control, warehousing, shipping and receiving, material handling, and purchasing, with goals of customer service, minimum inventory investment, and maximum operating efficiency. The manager ensures departmental performance to budget, contributes to business strategy and policy, maintains positive employee relations, and directs subordinates toward more efficient manufacturing processes, equipment, facilities, and run standards. The role defines key product and process characteristics and establishes methods to quantify and systematically improve CPk. It manages a three-shift operation and may delegate work to team leaders and use support functions such as engineering, skilled trades, accounting, purchasing, quality, and human resources.
Requirements
- Thorough understanding of manufacturing business.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Supervision and leadership experience.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and lead a designated production cell area or series of manufacturing processes to meet business-plan goals for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and teamwork.
- Manage budget and P&L responsibility and achieve or exceed LRP objectives.
- Identify, report, and reduce major cost drivers and increase contribution margin.
- Design, develop, and implement programs to improve safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
- Analyze sales, schedule releases, finished and in-process materials, and employment information to meet customer expectations.
- Develop and implement approved policies, objectives, and programs for material flow and cost across production and inventory control, warehousing, shipping and receiving, material handling, and purchasing.
- Develop and implement a manufacturing operations strategy that ensures timely manufacture of products meeting quality, cost, safety, and delivery standards.
- Ensure departmental performance to budget.
- Participate in formulating business strategy, policies, and procedures with other members of management.
- Maintain positive employee relations.
- Direct subordinates to improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes, equipment, facilities, and run standards.
- Define or identify key product and process characteristics.
- Establish methods and procedures to quantify and systematically improve CPk.
- Manage the three-shift operation, delegating work to team leaders and utilizing support staff as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
