MANUFACTURING MANAGER

Manufacturing Manager

Perform functions to guide and nurture the skills and knowledge of team members to support and achieve company goals and objectives.

Education Requirements

• Associate or bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Technical knowledge or expert-level experience with specific processes.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in manufacturing.

Physical Requirements

• Exposure to a manufacturing environment.

Competency Requirements

• Coaching & Mentoring – Enables direct reports to grow and succeed through feedback, instruction, and encouragement.
• Customer Focus – Builds and maintains customer satisfaction with the products and services offered.
• Ethics and Integrity – Earns others' trust and respect through consistent honesty and professionalism in all interactions.
• Leadership – Promotes organizational mission and goals and shows the way to achieve them.
• Listening – Understands and learns from what others say.
• Relationship Building – Builds constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect.
• Safety Focus – Adheres to all workplace safety laws, regulations, standards and practices.
• Teamwork – Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables.

Responsibilities

1. Drive safety – Participate in safety programs and sub-teams, ensure audits are completed on time, implement departmental safety suggestions, identify unsafe conditions, enforce safety compliance, and investigate and complete safety incidents.
2. Manage quality – Learn and understand quality procedures and inspections, assure compliance, and work directly with Quality personnel to resolve issues and answer questions.
3. Lead continuous improvement – Actively implement a continuous improvement environment while encouraging innovation and continuous learning.
4. Lead and develop team members – Manage team performance using data and performance measures. Provide formal and informal feedback, leadership, support, and guidance.
5. Own the production schedule – Anticipate and respond to workflow changes, deploy overtime as necessary, and manage time-off requests to ensure appropriate staffing.
6. Manage the departmental budget – Manage labor and overhead costs.
7. Own operational performance – Be accountable for meeting and exceeding safety, quality, delivery, productivity, morale, and inventory goals.
8. Manage capital needs – Identify capital needs and projects and execute the capital budget.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. #INDCEN