Manufacturing Assistant Manager

Join us and be part of a dynamic team where your efforts directly impact success! Enjoy excellent benefits, immediate holiday pay, and a supportive environment.

We're seeking a highly motivated individual with a Bachelor's Degree, Production Operations experience, and a knack for implementing continuous improvement.

Why you should work here :

• Excellent benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and tuition reimbursement.
• Immediate holiday pay.
• Dollar for Dollar 401k Match Profit Sharing.
• Additional paid time off during Christmas Eve to New Year's day shutdown and a mid-year plant shutdown.

Responsibilities include :

• Establishing or adjusting work procedures as necessary to meet production schedules.
• Planning and coordinating new product launch activities.
• Coordinating the appropriate support to effectively meet production schedules.
• Coordinating aftermarket and special production requirements, interpreting forecasts and schedules, and coordinating appropriate support and staffing levels.
• Reporting abnormal production issues, leading investigations, and implementing countermeasures.
• Conducting daily staff meetings and other required meetings.
• Interviewing and evaluating potential new employee candidates, leading the selection process for team member promotions.
• Maintaining production records and tracking manufacturing performance to budget and target.
• Leading and implementing projects, changes, or modifications in working conditions to improve production methods, equipment, performance, and quality.
• Creating data collection systems to facilitate improvement activity, initiating special reporting systems for staff communication.
• Leading and participating in safety, quality, and productivity continuous improvement teams.
• Writing and coordinating updates to the operator standards.
• Coordinating the completion of employee performance appraisals and discussing appraisals with employees.
• Reviewing and authorizing employee time records, scheduling team members to meet overtime production requirements, and developing overtime schedules to meet production requirements.
• Conducting in-depth analysis of cost data and leading improvements and countermeasures.
• Managing variable cost accounts via purchasing and inventory systems.
• Being the top-ranking official on-site for off-shifts, serving as the key contact for decision-making in safety, quality, and productivity.
• Interpreting company policies, enforcing safety regulations, counseling employees as required, leading team member injury investigations, and coordinating countermeasures.
• Serving as a key resource for changes in company policies.
• Ensuring ongoing and up-to-date training of employees.
• Facilitating and encouraging QC circle group activity, serving as a key resource for QC circle group development.
• Reviewing and authorizing employee suggestions, and encouraging employee participation in the suggestion process.
• Considering morale and initiating or suggesting plans to motivate workers to achieve team goals.
• Coordinating performance corrective actions as required.
• Taking over manager responsibilities when necessary.

What you need to succeed :

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Production Operations experience from manufacturing (ideally Automotive but open to other backgrounds).
• Experience in implementing continuous improvement methods for production, equipment operation / performance, and parts quality.
• Prior Management experience (will be supervising 20-60 personnel).
• Ability to run cost analysis and drive KPI's for a department.

Last updated : 2024-05-08