Manufacturing Manager
hace 10 días
Whitehall
Job DescriptionManufacturing Manager Responsibilities • Provide leadership in manufacturing excellence, ensuring customer satisfaction and continuous improvement across safety, quality, productivity, cycle time, delivery, and cash flow, • Partner closely with supervisors, team leaders, engineering, planning, and support teams to strengthen execution and elevate performance, • Build and sustain a culture of operational discipline and continuous improvement, • Salary: $115,000+, • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, • 401(k) savings plan with employer match, • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave, • Life insurance and employee assistance programs, • Professional development and leadership training, • Empowering talent – Identifies and removes obstacles to productivity; equips employees to perform at their best; supports cross-training and capability growth, • Flexibility – Responds quickly to changing priorities; navigates varied responsibilities and fast-moving operational demands, • Organized and time conscious – Manages time effectively; understands process duration; balances availability with proactive leadership, • Business-minded – Aligns people and resources with operational demand; anticipates needs using data and insights; supports informed decision-making, • Interpretation and synthesis – Converts multiple inputs into clear actions; interprets data, trends, and qualitative information to justify decisions and direction, • Rigor – Participates in audits; leverages systems thoroughly; gathers input across shifts; drives continuous improvement in processes, • Team orientation – Participates at both tactical and strategic levels; supports technical and operational needs when appropriate, • Trust and relationship building – Communicates openly; stays visible on the floor; reinforces expectations while highlighting strengths and achievements, • Ingenuity – Seeks efficiencies; solicits and implements improvement ideas from all levels, • Lead efforts to enhance manufacturing excellence and operational performance, • Ensure adherence to all safety regulations and promote a clean and safe work environment, • Strengthen shop-floor discipline, manufacturing planning, and execution, • Provide leadership for lean manufacturing, ABS, and continuous improvement initiatives, • Identify and eliminate non-value-added waste across operations, • Improve product flow and implement method improvements to reduce labor content, • Develop and train team leaders, supervisors, cell facilitators, and manufacturing support personnel, • Promote Injury Free Event (IFE) reporting and address safety issues immediately, • Maintain accountability for department budgets and financial performance, • Maintain effective communication and relationships with customers, • Develop budgets, strategic plans, goals, and objectives aligned with business unit priorities, • Cascade goals and objectives throughout the organization and ensure executional alignment, • Participate in cross-functional, site-specific, and enterprise-level teams, • Ensure delivery performance and customer commitments are consistently met, • Conduct capacity analysis to support standard work accuracy and labor planning, • Drive cost reduction initiatives to improve profitability, • Reduce work-in-process (WIP) and cycle time using lean tools, • Communicate operational priorities and performance clearly to staff, customers, and leadership, • Apply constraint management and OEE principles to improve throughput and efficiency, • High school diploma or GED, • Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience with at least 1 year overseeing leaders, • Legally authorized to work in the United States (no visa sponsorship available)Preferred Qualifications, • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Engineering, • Experience in investment casting and/or manufacturing environments, • Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage and motivate teams, • Ability to drive improvement using lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and total quality methodologies, • Strong technical understanding of manufacturing processes, • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, organizational, and negotiation skills, • Strong financial literacy and understanding of plant-level financials, • Experience with tooling, molds, and dies (investment casting, injection molding, or stamping preferred)