Manufacturing Manager - Nights

Department:                              Production

Reports to:                                Plant Manager

Employment Status:                Hourly, Non-Exempt

Shift:                                         12-Hour Shift  (Nights)

Benefits:

• 3 medical plans to choose from.
• Optional voluntary benefits – Dental, Vision, Life, Accident insurance and more. The company pays for a portion of these benefits.
• 401k Retirement Plan- Company matching.
• Quarterly Profit-Sharing Bonus.
• Casual Dress Code (Jeans, t-shirts, shorts, sweatshirts... ect)
• Paid Time Off- Prorated during employees first year of employment.
• Annual $100 shoe allowance for safety toed shoes. 
• Matrix- Employee Assistance Program.

Job Summary:

The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for the overall extrusion operations for a particular production building and shift. The ideal Manufacturing Manager is an individual who can maintain and improve EP’s production metrics (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Scrap and Efficiency) while also playing a role in the career and skill development of production associates. 

This individual will be involved with and lead continuous improvement practices throughout the plant to include Six Sigma projects, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, 5s, and improvement workshops. This individual will be responsible for ensuring adherence to Company procedures and as well as all administrative reporting.  This includes reporting of production results, material and hopper run outs, safety incidents including near misses, as well as Bill of Material (BOM) and Bill of Process (BOP) corrections.  This position is also responsible for the coordination of the daily production schedule including the assignment of production associates to the needed extrusion line or other department in order to best accomplish business goals. 

The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for the management for all assigned production associates. This team-focused individual must foster a good working relationship with the production associates on their shift.  This includes coaching, training and supporting production associates, especially new hires.  The ideal candidate is positive, confident, and hard-working and cares deeply for the success of the production associates on their crew.

This position serves as the Plant Manager backup and future promotion possibilities include Plant Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

People and Team Management

• Foster a positive relationship with all production associates on their shift, with a particular emphasis to helping new hires become successful.  
• Guide production associates in their career development including coaching, training, and ensuring they receive opportunities to progress in the training matrix.
• Reinforce policies and procedures taught in Company trainings.
• Responsible for meeting turnover and retention goals on their shift.
• Complete early career reviews of new production associates (e.g. 5-day, 10 day, etc.) and periodic written performance evaluations of all associates to ensure all associates are being provided the candid and accurate feedback needed to succeed and build a career at the Company.
• Responsible for the management of all assigned production employees including, but not limited to, timecard approval, discipline related to violations of Company policies, and assisting in the hiring and termination processes. 

Safety

• Responsible for creating an overall safe work environment for their building and holding employees responsible for following safety guidelines and standards.
• Ensures incident reports are completed in a timely manner after an injury or incident.
• Alert management to any security concerns that arise during a shift. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities, cont:

Quality

• Responsible for the quality results on their shift.  
• Performs audits as necessary to meet Quality standards.   This includes first piece verification checks and release audits.
• Expected to make quality decisions and document such decisions appropriately via the sign off procedure.
• Involves Quality personnel in making quality decisions as required.

Production

• Responsible for on time delivery on their shift.
• Responsible for achieving production metrics (scrap and efficiency) on their shift.
• Reviews and executes the production plan by assigning personnel; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules and resolving problems.
• Assigns labor appropriately based on needs of the business.
• Review the accuracy of operator reports before they are submitted to accounting.
• Reports the daily shift results to management using through a production summary report. 
• Audits each line to ensure that line cleanliness and quality standards are being followed.
• Develop and direct projects to reduce scrap and conversions costs while improving process efficiency and throughput.
• Communicates to Customer Experience Managers to ensure customers are informed on status of orders.
• Serve as backup to Plant Manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills, Qualifications, Education and/or Relevant Experience:

Required

• High school diploma or GED required
• Supervisory experience
• Able to work while standing for long periods

Preferred

• Four-year Bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience working across departments in a manufacturing organization
• Working knowledge of Microsoft applications and databases
• Knowledge of and ability to utilize lean manufacturing problem-solving tools such as Six Sigma 
• Experience in driving process improvements

Desired

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and time sensitive work that can change rapidly
• Experience in a plastics processing or extrusion environment
• Displays consistent desire to do more than is asked to help coordinate processes in order to get the job done

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Anywhere from 20-25 operatros assigned to the manager’s crew

Engineered Profiles LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and local laws.

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