Plant Production Manager
About The Position
Directly supervises 4-5 Team Leaders/Supervisors and has indirect responsibility for the plant production workforce. This role is responsible for all day-to-day manufacturing activities required to produce the final product at the plant facility. The Plant Production Manager supports continuous improvement activities on the shop floor using lean manufacturing tools, coordinates activities of production departments, and ensures that all production goals are met in a timely and cost-effective manner. This position works with supervisory staff to achieve production metrics, including productivity and on-time performance, and coaches and mentors team leaders in matters regarding production employee performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and five years of manufacturing experience or ten (10) years of manufacturing experience.
- Strong background in Lean Manufacturing tools.
- Training in formal problem solving and operational analysis.
- Able to communicate with superiors, peers and subordinates in a professional manner.
- Demonstrate initiative and willingness to seek out improvements through the use of Lean Manufacturing tools.
- Develop plans that meet a variety of goals simultaneously and be able to change these plans as business conditions change.
- Utilize analysis tools to determine opportunities for improvement.
- Willing to work additional hours and varied working hours to effectively manage people across all shifts.
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with MAPICS or other MRP system is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Allocates and manages resources (manpower, equipment, and materials) to optimize production output with respect to delivery, quality and cost.
- Leads teams in achieving goals in safety, quality, cost, delivery, and other plant goals.
- Serves as a shop floor champion for lean manufacturing. Supports continuous improvement initiatives. Drives culture change on the shop floor.
- Completes daily shop floor Gemba walks identifying opportunities for improvement and interaction with production team members.
- Manages shifts by effectively utilizing team leaders and their resources.
- Coordinates activities of various departments and/or shifts to ensure that all areas are working on the appropriate tasks.
- Contributes to strategic operating, capital, and other plans to improve effectiveness of operation.
- Adjusts plant capacity to meet customer demand.
- Maintains effective working relationship and communication with all departments and sees to the professional development of all assigned personnel.
- Is extremely visible on the production floor sometimes spending more than 50% of the shift in the Plant.
- Ensures departmental compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley as well as other internal controls.
- Establishes budgets and operating targets.
- Analyzes operational performance and develops priorities for improvements.
- Responsible for all aspects of shop floor management in assigned areas.
- Responsible for driving Safety Performance in the Plant to achieve and maintain Gold Status (Goal of No Recordables / No Lost Times).
- Responsible for performing 2 Behavior Based Safety Observations monthly.
- Ensures Safety Training is completed as required for Direct Reports.
Benefits
- Competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance.
- Competitive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
