Manufacturing Manager

Aegis is seeking a Thermoforming Manager to join our client's organization in Dekalb, IL. The ideal candidate has the following skills and experience:

• 4 years of experience working in a plant leadership type of position
• Industry; plastics packaging, or manufacturing related.
• Experience with daily production control & implementing new ideas for production control.
• Thermoforming process management experience
• Sheet heat zones, plus assist timing, vacuum/pressure, cooling.
• Experience troubleshooting and planning out common issues within the packaging process – webbing, thin corners, haze, warpage or trim.
• Experience with quality and regulatory compliance
• Assisting in audits
• Tracking mold performance and cycles
• Leading the team on root cause analysis for scrap, defects, and customer complaints.
• Leadership – non union plant – 80 hourly folks and 2 supervisors, no supervisor on 3rd shift !
• Experience enforcing safety practices – lockout/tagout, guarding, and hot sheet safety.
• Experience with attendance, performance issues, hiring & firing.
• Experience implementing CI processes. (5S, Lean six sigma)
• Experience tracking OEE, scrap %, yield, downtime and labor efficiency.
• Experience communicating cross functionally with similar sized organizations. And collaborating with sales, engineering, maintenance, QA and other members of plant leadership.

Nice to have:

• Bachelors degree, associates or continued education training.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.