Job Description Summary

Perform the daily operations of plants to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line. Includes Service Shops. Owns/influences budgets and operating plans. The role is guided by operating policy. Works with cross functional teams. The role has autonomy within the operational area or a segment within a larger business unit. The role may have a major impact on a small business unit or Family within a Function or P&L. High levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen are required to achieve outcomes.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage an operation, business, unit, or part of a production facility in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety. Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards. Team management of salaried employees. This does not include production supervisors who oversee hourly employees.
• Developing expertise in own function. May include roles that are experts in their discipline, providing professional or thought leadership . Influences policy and ensures delivery within area of responsibility, linking with other parts of the organization.
• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.
• Leads others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Employs sophisticated operational/product management, manufacturing or engineering techniques. Interaction with adjacent functions needed to solve issues. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business or technical discipline solutions to leaders. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.
• Coach and develop team members at all levels to help them build their Lean skills and become Lean Practitioners.
• Support Line Operations Leader in lean activity implement, result tracking and sustainment, as well as lean roadmap deployment
• Be responsible for identifying problems and work towards solving them using lean tools and methods.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and 5 years of experience managing an operation, a business, a unit, or part of a production facility (or a minimum high school diploma / GED with an additional 4 years of experience managing an operation, a business, a unit, or part of a production facility).

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive cross functional cultural change.
• Executive level presentation skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Proven ability to influence & drive change in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in creating a vision and flawless execution of the same.
• Ability to collaborate & influence others and lead small teams.