Salary Expectations:
-120-140k
-20% bonus
Keys to this role:
-BSME or related technical/engineering degree required
-Lean Manufacturing - 6S, Kaizen, Visual Factory Concepts
-Fastems automation experience highly preferred
Job Description
- Drives continuous improvements in safety for employees/processes, quality signature improvements, lead time/cost reduction, and productivity while meeting customer expectations.
- Strong communication skills in a 360-degree environment. Communication to shop, staff, peers, and sr. leadership teams.
- Provides leadership to supervisors to ensure that appropriate staffing levels are maintained to meet all operational metrics.
- Resolves employee issues using standard model of leadership behavior: setting expectations, coaching, recognition, constructive feedback, and escalation where appropriate.
- Gives reliable and actionable feedback regarding production capability, tooling, and machine procurement/ replacement recommendations.
- Responsible for planning, managing, and reaching yearly improvement goals within the operation.
- Must become an expert on how the ERP system supports all key business processes.
- Analyzes daily, weekly, and monthly goals against the units plans and organizations goals. (Ex. Operation Efficiencies, on time starts, Capacity Constraints).
- Reports operational metrics to senior management, providing tactical and strategic plans to ensure the organizations goals will be meet.
- Works closely with engineering, quality, sales, procurement and participates in cross functional projects.
- Must be an agent of change that drives continuous improvement by involving subordinates in problem solving and decision making.
- Responsible for project management of non-engineering initiatives for the business unit.
- Will be a strong contributor to the strategic planning of the organization.
- Responsible for training and mentoring staff; motivating them all for effective performance for the general growth of the company.
- Develop and communicate the expectation levels and vision of the company to members of unit. This must of course be relevant to the companys corporate vision and goals.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Knowledge and Training:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Management or other Technical four-year degree from a college or university; and minimum five years related supervisory experience, or equivalent industry experience.
- Lean Manufacturing - 6S, Kaizen, Visual Factory Concepts
- Analysis and Fundamentals of statistical process controls (Six Sigma)
- Fastems experience preferred
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Positive Communication
- Risk Management
- Broad understanding of manufacturing operations in a machine shop environment
- Five plus years of production management experience
- Aerospace manufacturing production management
- Lean Certification a plus
- Strong managerial presence that reflects a hands-on, participative, pro-active operating style. Excellent communication, planning and organization skills.
- Leadership skills
- Analytical in decision making
- Ability to comprehend broad business issues
- Ability to accomplish objective through others