Manufacturing Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing from an accredited institution, or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience as an Operations Manager or similar role in Aerospace, Medical Device, Automotive, or similar industry.
• Experience hardening, tempering, annealing, and other heat-treating processes.
• Experience applying coatings and plating to aerospace parts using automated equipment or manual techniques.
• Understanding of stamping processes, including blanking, forming, and piercing.
• Strong analytical and understanding of techniques to meet coating and thickness desired.
• Effective verbal and written communications skills at all levels of the organization, especially with direct employees.
• Previous supervisory experience leading large teams (40+ people).
• Intermediate use of ERP (JDE), MS Office Suite and productivity tools.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with chemistry, metallurgy, material science or related field /equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Ensures to run a safe, injury/accident-free workplace.
• Responsible for daily management and leadership of all resources assigned.
• Schedule adherence, productivity, personnel development, time and attendance, training and establishing/monitoring departmental goals.
• Enhances the operational procedures, processes and systems to improve operational efficiencies.
• Works independently and within a team while coordinating with other Departmental Leaders and/or Managers to achieve daily/weekly/monthly goals and objectives.
• Interprets company policies to workers, leads by example and enforces all Federal, State and local regulations.
• Creates a departmental cross training matrix and mentors assigned personnel.
• Deploys team members to both strategically and tactically engage in cross functional problem solving to improve production efficiency and product quality.
• Executes the production schedule, manage people, assets, tooling and materials in running the production in most productive fashion; engage actively in potential schedule or requirement changes; ensure and enhance production schedule adherence.
• Manages Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and other reporting daily to drive performance in all assigned areas; and ensure all production data accuracies.
• Ensures employees are trained on post manufacturing processing procedures and practices.
• Reviews variable costs, productivity, earned standard hours and throughput daily and implement effective recovery or corrective actions when targets are not achieved.
• Actively participates in Continuous Improvement (CI) projects to increase efficiency, productivity and machine utilization while reducing overall cost.
• Provides manufacturing expertise when problems arise.
• Formulates and maintains the highest standards of housekeeping (6S) in all areas assigned.
• Supports and improves upon quality initiatives designed to meet plant goals.
• Manages preventative maintenance performed by production employees.
• Other duties as assigned.