Primary Responsibilities and Duties

• Supporting all safety initiatives, as well as pushing continuous improvement opportunities
• Planning and scheduling production activities: This involves creating production schedules, determining resource requirements, and allocating tasks to team members to meet production targets.
• Monitoring and optimizing production processes: continuously monitor and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of production processes. Identify bottlenecks, implement improvements, and ensure that quality standards are met.
• Managing the production team: responsible for supervising and motivating the production team. Provides guidance, training, and support to ensure that employees perform their tasks effectively and safely.
• Ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations: It is crucial to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. Enforces safety protocols, identifies and mitigates potential hazards, and ensures that employees are trained in safety procedures.
• Managing inventory and materials: responsible for maintaining adequate inventory levels and coordinating with the purchasing department to ensure timely availability of raw materials and supplies.
• Collaborating with other departments: works closely with other departments to ensure smooth coordination and alignment of production activities with overall business objectives.
• Analyzing production data and reporting: analyzes production data, including output, costs, and quality metrics, and provides regular reports to management. This helps in identifying trends, making informed decisions, and implementing process improvements.
• Familiarity with LDM -Lean Display Management
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested or required.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering or related field
• Minimum of seven years of previous, relevant engineering, operations management experience preferred.
• Minimum of five years of previous supervisory experience
• Customer Focus – Maintaining awareness of and seeking to meet of the needs and wants of the customer.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written
• Leadership Orientation – Actively seeks ways in which to act as a role model, guide, develop and mentor others within the Production Department
• Adaptability – Responds effectively to changes in situation or information
• Strong financial analytical skills including cost control
• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or 5S experience preferred
• Excellent Microsoft Outlook, Project, Excel, Word and Power Point skills
• Strong team leadership, team building and facilitation skills
• Must be able to work in the US
• 10% travel

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; talk or hear; and use hands to handle, or touch objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies

• Drives results and deadline driven
• Detail oriented
• Planning and organizing
• Communicates effectively
• Influence, Negotiated and Impact results

Key Behaviors

• Are accountable to others
• Have the courage to challenge the status quo
• Are honest with co-workers and customers
• Able to be innovative problem solvers
• Are engaged team members
• Add value to the Company
• Expects excellence of self and others
• Overserves top customers
• Understands, simplifies and acts to improve processes

ABOUT US

AMMEGA is a global company located in 40 countries.

We value our employees, customers, entrepreneurship and we act in an agile and responsible way. Our mission and continuous improvement culture is the foundation for a strong and sustainable businesses appreciated by our customers. The Ammega Group's businesses provide advanced and high-quality belting solutions for 20 different industries including global logistics, food production, fitness equipment, household appliances and energy production.