Job Description
SUMMARY
At ITW Performance Polymers, our Production team is a pivotal part of helping us to deliver best-in-class products for our customers. As a Production Manager, you will get to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, leveraging your entrepreneurial spirit, manufacturing experience, passion for people-management, and knack for process improvement, to create outstanding production outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to roll up your sleeves and grow your career by helping us to achieve new heights with our “A Products.”
YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS JOB IF YOU...:
Are an entrepreneur – you enjoy taking ownership of your surroundings and constantly seek to find ways to improve.
Thrive in a fast-paced environment that keeps you on your toes – you love a good challenge and stay calm under pressure.
Are active and interactive. You like to be involved in the day-to-day and are great at building rapport with your team.
Have a passion for process improvement and making your team more efficient and effective. You enjoy finding solutions to complex challenges and do so with poise and resolve.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Manages, coordinates, and directs the activities of a manufacturing department within Performance Polymers to maximize productivity while ensuring safety and quality and minimizing cost.
Promote, support, and adhere to all safety, environmental and quality related policies and procedures.
Provide clear leadership for production employees assigning roles, tasks, and accountability.
Generate Operations related plans/reports/schedules to track and achieve OTIF goals & objectives.
Develop, communicate, and report the status of operating metrics intended to track the efficiency and effectiveness of associated functions.
Generate and manage operating budgets that comply with targeted earnings objectives.
Introduce manufacturing best practices to improve efficiency, productivity, and communication to all production personnel.
Ensure company objectives of safety, equipment utilization, performance to schedule, quality specifications, scrap levels.
Ensure equipment is maintained and operated safely and correctly, minimizing down time and job-related injury.
Achieve the highest level of inventory accuracy by coordinating with accounting, performing cycle count procedures, adopting fixed locations for materials/equipment, and utilizing visual inventory systems.
Initiate and drive continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging the ITW Toolbox techniques.
Cooperate with R&D, QA, Sales, and Finance functions to bring new projects to the execution phase and ensures effective post execution assessment to ensure that cost and quality targets are attained.
Oversee employee training plans for each individual and meets monthly to review progress, removes roadblocks to ensure continued growth and development.
Promote, support and adhere to all safety, environmental and quality related policies and procedures.