2nd Shift Manufacturing Shop Operations Team Manager - Senior

We are looking for a talented 2nd Shift Senior Manufacturing Shop Operations Team Manager to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems (CDBS) Facility in Plainfield, IN.   

In This Role, You Will Make an Impact in the Following Ways:  

• Building High-Performing Teams: Foster a strong team culture by bringing together diverse perspectives, promoting collaboration, and aligning employees around shared goals and operational priorities. 


• Driving Collaboration & Communication: Build effective partnerships across functions and shifts while delivering clear, timely, and audience-appropriate communications that support business objectives. 


• Making Sound Operational Decisions: Evaluate information, assess risks, and make timely, quality decisions that keep operations running efficiently and support business continuity. 


• Developing Talent & Future Leaders: Coach, mentor, and develop employees through performance management, career development planning, cross-training, and succession planning initiatives. 


• Directing Work & Removing Barriers: Set clear expectations, delegate responsibilities effectively, and remove obstacles that impact team productivity, quality, safety, and delivery performance. 


• Driving Employee Engagement & Inclusion: Create an environment where employees feel valued, motivated, and empowered to contribute while embracing and leveraging diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. 


• Delivering Results Through Continuous Improvement: Lead continuous process improvement and waste reduction efforts to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance while achieving business targets under demanding conditions. 


• Championing Safety, Compliance & Problem Resolution: Promote an injury-free workplace through proactive safety leadership, effective conflict management, thorough incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and implementation of sustainable corrective actions. 

     To be successful in this role you will need the following:      

• Leadership & Team Development: Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams, with a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of three years of experience supervising, coaching, and managing employee performance. 
• Lean Manufacturing Expertise: Strong lean management background with the ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives, eliminate waste, optimize workflows, and improve operational efficiency. 
• Material Flow & Inventory Management: Experience supporting inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction management, cycle counting, location control, discrepancy resolution, and implementation of safer, more efficient material-flow processes that reduce PIV dependency. 
• Safety & Operational Excellence: Proven ability to foster a strong safety culture by promoting safe PIV operations, managing pedestrian interactions, ensuring proper material staging and storage practices, facilitating effective shift-to-shift communication, and proactively addressing operational risks and customer priorities. 

Education, Licenses, Certifications:  
College, university, or equivalent degree required. 
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.  
 
Experience:  
Intermediate level of supervisory experience required. 

• Bachelor’s degree with (3) or more years’ experience supervising/leading others.

• Lean management background required
• Support and drive site PIV reduction initiatives by identifying opportunities to eliminate or reduce PIV-dependent material movement and implementing safer, more efficient material-flow solutions.
• Drive a strong safety culture with particular focus on PIV operations, pedestrian interaction, material staging, stacking, storage, and load-handling practices.
• Maintain inventory accuracy through disciplined material transactions, location management, cycle-count support, and investigation of inventory discrepancies.
• Ensure effective shift-to-shift communication of shortages, operational risks, staffing concerns, customer priorities, and unresolved issues.
• Develop team capability through coaching, cross-training, performance management, and succession planning.