Ready to have some fun in the great outdoors? Join Rhino Inc. to help us further develop our fast-growing group of companies producing innovative products for lakeside living, hunting, and fishing—all driven by our expertise as a custom rotational-molding manufacturer.

If you appreciate being outside year-round, you’ll love what we do. We make enjoying the outdoors all the better by creating durable and easy-to-use floating docks; waterfowl hunting boats, blinds, and decoys; and ice fishing shelters and sleds. We also produce fluid storage/distribution tanks and provide custom mold and mold repair services.

Rhino is a leading manufacturer with a respected reputation in these niche areas through our brands: Wave Armor, Beavertail/DOA Decoys, Otter Outdoors, and Rhino Tuff Tanks. We are a 27-year-old, family-owned and led, international business still small enough for your voice to be heard, your name to be known and your impact to be meaningful. Everyone is encouraged to share input on projects and initiatives, and our decision-making is collaborative as we realize there are leaders at every level within Rhino. We hire, promote, and make changes based on our core values, beginning with “Work hard, play hard!”

Reports to: Warehouse Manager
Job Summary:

The primary functions of this position are to provide daily direction, training, and development of assigned production staff, ensure quality product is produced, work to minimize or eliminate defects, and maximize efficiencies (people, machines, and materials); all while achieving on-time delivery goals and meeting customer expectations. As a member of the leadership team, he/she will motivate all team members, lead by example, and make continuous improvements.

The secondary function of this position is to provide expertise in any way required for the day to day business of Rhino Inc. (e.g., cover for deck leads, molders, trimmers, etc.).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work directly with the shop staff in a manner that maximizes Rhino, Inc.’s operations, efficiencies and safety objectives.
• Analyze sales order demand and inventory to identify production priorities. Print pick tickets and delegate work to get done. Follow up with team and provide support.
• Provide leadership, direction and communication with team throughout the entire production and warehouse/distribution team. Facilitate production staff training and development, cycle time maximization, minimize defects and rework, meet on-time delivery goals, and meet customer expectations.
• Responsible for coordination and evaluation of staff which may include interviewing, planning, assigning work, evaluating performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, and resolving personnel issues. Monitor overtime per Rhino, Inc.’s guidelines to control costs and promote efficient operations.
• Become a Safety Leader by always working in a safety-conscious manner, taking necessary precautions to keep self and co-workers safe. Maintain safe and clean work environment. Identify and resolve safety concerns and make recommendations to staff and management on safety issues and/or work related injuries. Perform accident investigations as needed.

• Responsible/Accountable for all productivity, scrap, and rework within assigned production area. Review daily production and scrap reporting and take appropriate action to continuously improve. Work with Leadership Team on recurring molding issues, root cause analysis, correction(s), corrective action, and validation. Take ownership of reducing scrap and ‘first part good part’ initiatives.
• Understand/achieve specific targets. Must have capacity to plan ahead and benchmark success.
• Continuous execution of improvement opportunities by generating a minimum of one (1) improvement opportunity initiative form per month.
• Participate in creating work instructions for standardization and repeated success.
• Participate in corrective and preventative action activities.
• Attend at least 32 hours of Professional Development training (off-site) per year.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma, College degree preferred and/or Coursework in Manufacturing
  Processes & Supervisor Training. Coursework in 5S or Lean Manufacturing.
• Must have leadership experience. Example: Deck Lead or previous Supervisor.
• Minimum of 2 years of manufacturing related experience.
• Must be willing to further college education and/or professional development.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to read/create/understand work instructions and procedures and read prints.
• Must have mechanical aptitude, good attention to detail, ability to perform basic math computations and computer data entry.
• Ability to use measuring devices (calipers, etc.) and hand and power tools (drills, etc.).
• Good visual ability to detect quality defects.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be a Change Agent and open and flexible to changing priorities
• Exhibits strong leadership skills.
• Able to multi-task, establish priorities, and follow through.
• Able to create and execute plans.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to walk and stand for extended periods of time. Exposure to shop elements such as noise, dust, odors, heat and cold.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. and walk and stand during entire shift.