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Job Description
Position Summary: Assembly Manager
Our Batavia location is hiring an LPIM/PET Assembly Manager. This role is responsible for leading assembly teams, ensuring product quality, driving process improvements, and meeting production targets safely and efficiently. The Assembly Manager collaborates closely with engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance teams to ensure on‑time, high‑quality output.
This position also manages the R&R department order completions.
Work You’ll Do
Who We Are
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.
Eeo
The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@milacron.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Position Summary: Assembly Manager
Our Batavia location is hiring an LPIM/PET Assembly Manager. This role is responsible for leading assembly teams, ensuring product quality, driving process improvements, and meeting production targets safely and efficiently. The Assembly Manager collaborates closely with engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance teams to ensure on‑time, high‑quality output.
This position also manages the R&R department order completions.
Work You’ll Do
- Foster a positive, safe, and high‑performance work environment.
- Ensure compliance with all safety policies and code of ethics.
- Manage day‑to‑day assembly operations ensuring adherence to build instructions and specifications.
- Manage production schedule. Monitoring for any schedule slippage.
- Supervise and develop assembly technicians, leads, and support staff.
- Provide coaching, training, performance feedback, and conduct evaluations.
- Support team members to meet or exceed yearly company and individual goals.
- Monitor production metrics including Rework, Utilization, Efficiency and Productivity.
- Lead daily production startup meetings setting daily and weekly expectations.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing practices such as 5S, standardized work, visual management, and waste reduction.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to reduce cycle time and increase efficiency.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineer to refine assembly instructions, tooling, fixtures, and equipment layouts.
- Work with Materials and Supply Chain teams to ensure component availability and resolve shortages.
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI) by participating in design reviews and pilot builds.
- Demonstrate personal leadership; actively participate in or lead problem solving and continuous improvement efforts.
- Ability to consistently run safe, efficient, and predictable operations while meeting cost, quality, and delivery targets.
- Demonstrate flexibility when confronted with high stress / emergency situations, priority changes, or new assignments.
- Making timely, well-reasoned decisions in fast‑paced environments with incomplete information while balancing risk and impact.
- Understanding assembly processes, equipment, tooling, drawings, and manufacturing systems well enough to guide decision-making and support teams effectively.
- 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing operations, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or management role.
- Background in mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical assembly.
- Strong understanding of 5S & Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Demonstrated leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, BOMs, and assembly instructions.
- Recommend improvements for work area, products, and processes.
- Perform prototype work with limited Engineering and minimal supervision.
- Factory environment with exposure to machinery, tools, and industrial materials.
- Frequent standing, lifting, and movement on the production floor.
- Occasional overtime or weekend work to meet production deadlines.
Who We Are
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.
Eeo
The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@milacron.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.