What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at Ainsley Search Group?
Ainsley Search Group is seeking a Production Manager to join a Global Specialty Chemical Manufacturer located in South Jersey. This ideal candidate will report to Director of Operations and is responsible for directing the efficient and cost-effective manufacturing operation, support capital projects and operational projects to optimize process flow, further achieve highest customer fulfillment and higher production yield. This is a permanent opportunity with lucrative compensation, bonus, and benefit, in addition, company would like to develop the right individual to become the Director of Operations as part of succession planning in the near future.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct the plant manufacturing operations, support capital projects, and to achieve operational objectives within the plant.
- Provides hands-on leadership to both direct and indirect reports, full responsibilities of staffing outlook, training and career development, performance review, discipline for subordinate.
- Improve the operational systems, processes, and policies in support of company’s mission and optimize plant operations output to meet customer requirements.
- Oversee production and process performance, identify opportunities for improvement and drive CI to achieve cost saving and higher efficiency.
- Oversee capital projects and plant engineering projects based on current process capacity, determine operational improvement initiatives, plans, corrective actions to optimize plant operations across control systems and plant equipment, provide input on capital investment.
- Evaluate process capability, reliability, and overall efficiency to develop improvement strategy and further optimize safety, reliability, and efficiency across all automated systems; Apply Statistical Process Control to sustain and continuously improve process and equipment reliability.
- Monitor and develop plant KPI and metrics, collect, analyze data concerning plant output, cost, cut/yield, scrap to identify area of improvement and cost saving opportunities.
- Act as change agent to drive changes across organization, provide hands-on leadership and mentorship to improve overall plant performance
- Collaborate with quality team and support root cause analysis, corrective action to drive improvement, reduce re-work and return issues.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in chemical engineering or related field
- Recent years of experience as Production Manager, Manufacturing Manager, Operations Manager within Manufacturing industry, exposure to batching, high volume, automated manufacturing process desired.
- Hands-on leadership experience, ability motivate and develop people.
- Strong problem-solving skill and analytical skill, critical thinking skill and excellent communication and people skill, ability to interact with customers, supplier and cross functional teams.
- Solid experience in Lean Manufacturing Practice, Continuous Improvement, 5S/6S, certified in LSS is a plus.
- Solid experience in plant maintenance management and capital project management, recent exposure to plant automation project management.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Lucrative Base Compensation
- PTO and Paid holidays
- 401k with match
- Company paid health insurance
- Company Paid life insurance
- Company paid disability insurance
- Relocation Assistance