Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities:
- Drive our Safety Culture throughout the facility to ensure the safety of employees, visitors, and contractors
- Interface with production planner to establish priorities and sequences for manufacturing products
- Coordinate production activities through planning with managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Coordinate with Maintenance and Engineering to resolve manufacturing problems to ensure minimum costs and delays
- Promote safe work practices and demonstrates a zero tolerance for non-compliance with safe work practices, policies and regulations
- Provide leadership to accomplish the company goals and objectives
- Provides direction, development and leadership to production supervisors
- Build and engage employees that support our goals and objectives
- Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and ensures positive work environment
- Leads, encourages and supports continuous improvement projects
- Implement cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, people management, wages and salaries.
- Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards.
- Control and minimize labor overtime and supply disruptions
- Assist in maintaining existing plant facilities and equipment; replace, or adjust plant facilities and equipment when necessary
- Works with maintenance to maximize uptime and maintain preventative maintenance programs
- Incorporates shop floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel
Knowledge/Skills/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related engineering field along with 5+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of proven manufacturing leadership experience required
- Knowledge of wire and cable products and processes preferred
- Ability to apply technical knowledge or experience to define problems, generate alternatives, and execute solutions
- Demonstrated ability to perform customary management and supervisory responsibilities, including goal setting, planning, direction, training and evaluation
- Proven ability to lead a team
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills along with exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to effectively communicate our goals and objectives to a team and convey the part they play in achieving those goals
Reports To:
- Plant Manager