Injection Molding Manufacturing Manager

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Injection Molding Manufacturing Manager  to join our team! 

The Company : Ericson Manufacturing engineers and manufactures temporary power, lighting and safety electrical products for your workplace. Family owned and operated since 1918, our mission is to safeguard your jobsite with quality and innovative solutions with a commitment to safety, ease of use and reliability.

The Role: The Injection Molding Manufacturing Manager is  responsible for managing the production activities of manufactured products through a safe, rewarding, efficient, and motivated production environment to ensure a quality product meets or exceeds our customers’ requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Team responsibilities:
  • Responsible for managing the production department personnel including department supervisors, leads, and maintenance/janitorial staff. 
  • Allocates necessary labor, materials and capital required to fulfill customer orders. 
  • Continually monitors the performance of the production department employees. 
  • Ensures that work is prioritized and appropriately assigned. 
  • Establishes clear performance expectations and goals, and provides timely feedback on a regular basis to employees on job performance. 
  • Deals promptly with sub-par performance issues by putting corrective actions in place to monitor continued improvement. 
  • Ensures that all production employees are trained on specific job duties, equipment and procedures including any mandated OSHA and company policy training programs.
  • Certifies that the production supervisors have training plans in place for each employee and that required training is being conducted. 
  • May conduct actual training or coordination of additional trainers when appropriate. 
  • Assesses the effectiveness of training programs presented by reviewing results obtained.
  • Actively promotes cross-training within each work cell and amongst departments. 
  • Completes performance reviews timely. Makes salary change recommendations. 
  • Makes all hiring, promotion and termination decisions for the department with involvement of Human Resource Dept.

• Planning responsibilities:
  • Submits a budget for production department based on projected customer needs, efficiency gains, and manages departmental spending to budgeted amounts. 
  • Determines the level of resources needed to meet production demand. 
  • Plans for capacity by consistently reviewing both current and future sales forecasts along with job capacity schedules. 
  • Communicates with production supervisors and leads on the details of the schedule, including changes when appropriate. 
  • Solves problems that may arise on production floor that would prohibit meeting customer order commitments. 
  • Determines the feasibility of product schedule and communicates with Supply Chain on quotation of lead times if resources are constrained.
  • Regularly checks on the stocking levels of Finished Goods and other critical component stocking levels to ensure we have enough inventory to support a high customer service level. This function is primary to the Supply chain department and an executed job schedule should support this.

• Continuous Improvement responsibilities:
  • Continuously monitors the performance of all production machinery, processes and team members to develop a keen eye for driving improvements. 
    • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for include but not limited to:
      • Ontime Shipment Performance, Order leadtime, Labor Absorption, Job Schedule Attainment, Finished Goods Availability, OEE, Manufacturing Variances, Customer complaints, assigned Corrective Actions and Sales performance by month.
  • Utilize LEAN/KAIZEN tools to identify wastes and use team collaboration to address them.
  • Puts in place necessary corrective actions to the manufacturing processes required to achieve manufacturing variance goals. 
  • Collaborates with Engineering and Quality Department to improve processes.
  • Ensures that proper preventive and “break-fix” service is conducted on each machine as required. 
  • Purchases new, used or upgraded equipment when needed via requisition/approval process.
  • Embraces Ericson’s ISO Quality system manual system and procedures.

• Safety responsibilities:
  • As a member of the Safety Committee, proactively addresses safety as a concern for the employees, facility, product and customer.
  • Reviews the performance of the maintenance facilities personnel to ensure that the work environment is safe from hazards and is kept clean and organized as appropriate.
  • Responsible member for facilities management functions including enhancement, expansion, maintenance, security and cleanliness with the assistance of the maintenance dept.
  • Determines which ergonomics and safety programs are necessary for the facility and implements these programs through employee safety committees. 
  • Reviews safety programs with HR annually for effectiveness and provides input to the creation or implementation of safety policies and procedures.
  • Other responsibilities as assigned.

Competencies: This position requires incumbents to exhibit the following skills:

• Managerial Courage
• Motivating others
• Approachable
• Planning, looking ahead
• Drive for results
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Inclusiveness 

Minimum Qualifications, Education and Certifications:

• Minimum of 8 years total work experience
• Minimum of 4 years experience in a production management or supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple production supervisors
• Preferably experience working in an injection molding and assembly manufacturing environment. 
• Bachelors degree in business or engineering strongly preferred