JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary
This position will oversee all daily operations of the plant including production and distribution with overall responsibilities for safety, quality, production, maintenance, warehousing, and other manufacturing related activities ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
Key Responsibilities:
· Commit to plant safety procedures; developing and cultivating the safety culture to instill a behavioral safety team.
· Align quality results with quality expectations, targeting zero external defects, scrap improvement and true root cause corrective action.
· Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day to day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations.
· Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure the total manufacturing objective are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
· Responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping.
· Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
· Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
· Provide leadership and training to accomplish the company goals and objectives.
· Collect and analyze data to find places of waste .
· Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
· Incorporates shop floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel.
· Provides direction, development, and leadership to production supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS
Competencies (Knowledge/Skills/Abilities)
· Knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and stewardship processes
· Intermediate skill in MS Excel
· Strong team building, decision making and people management skills
· Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts
· Knowledge of ERP systems
Leadership Competencies
o Communication
o Decision Making
o Financial management
o Business Acumen
o Teamwork
o Continuous improvement
Education
· Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or a related field required
Experience
· Five (5 ) or more years as a Plant Manager required
· Injection molding experience required
· Warehousing experience preferred
· Bilingual experience preferred
· Food packing industry experience (required for some plants)
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