Manufacturing Engineer

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Dublin, VA (Onsite- 5 days a week)

Hire Type: Fulltime and Contract (long-term)

Core Responsibilities

• People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination
• Manage staffing needs daily
• Payroll and time keeping
• Performance management
• Lead and manage safety activities
• Daily management of quality checks
• Daily team meetings
• Process Improvement initiatives and efforts

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Preferred Associate Degree or higher
• Required 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role
• Preferred 3 to 5 years' experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment .
• Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power BI
• Preferred Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification

Principal Duties and Accountabilities (*Essential Functions)

• Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area
• Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinate teams (direct staff & support functions) and approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner for meeting Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee's ideas and suggestions
• Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same
• Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline
• Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement. Advanced ability to apply various Lean Manufacturing tools
• Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving

Leadership and Technical Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, time management, planning, organizational, and analytical skills with proven results
• Integrity - Ensures both consistency of and compliance with company and departmental policies/procedures and performance standards. Implements operational plans to achieve designated objectives, established performance goals and quality standards.
• Ability to analyze procedures, routine reports, and correspondence with a strong attention to detail
• Identifies, reports and communicates to the Department Manager trends and/or irregularities. Takes a proactive approach to analyzing deficiencies and develops plans to correct. Recommends and implements solutions by involving team in problem solving to obtain the best results
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and driving for Results, Priority setting and decision making. Ability to make good, rapid decisions in a face paced environment.
• Foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with the operational stakeholders.
• Leads the team in creating an atmosphere that enables dialog and commitments that promote a continuous improvement mindset and has a favorable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the site through accuracy measurements.
• Self-awareness: knows personal strengths, weaknesses and limits. Gains insights from mistakes and is open to criticism.
• Able to have developmental conversations with direct reports.
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence.