Associate Manager Operations - Drive Unit

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the production operations team in the relevant shop organization.
• Identify bottlenecks, assign priorities, lead continuous improvement.
• Develop and grow the team within a fast paced ever changing environment.
• Drive manufacturing team to achieve established targets for daily going rate.
• Maintain high product quality and manufacturing yield while ensuring optimal use of resources and adherences to best safety practices.
• Drive behavior and build management systems to ensure all equipment is safe to operate, with high availability, good reliability and appropriate quality and cycle rate performance.
• Monitor metrics and Key Performance Indicator's (KPI's) to assess productivity and cost management.
• Drive a culture based on engineering solutions using training, systematic troubleshooting and root cause corrective actions. Support all factory activities related to safety, engineering and manufacturing including; 5S and Lean manufacturing activities, material handling improvements, production line configuration, and safety procedures.
• Work with all cross functional teams including; Design, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Production engineering , Quality and Process Engineering to ensure production equipment is available and able to meet current production requirements.
• Engineering safety program: provide proper training and qualification, tools, and equipment to ensure that the engineering team operates safely at all times, and always lead by example.
• Work hand-in-hand with maintenance and production engineering on components and consumables to ensure the right parts are available in the right quantities to keep the equipment running.
• Develop, modify, and document repairs/troubleshooting/TPM processes. Work with Maintenance to utilize those processes.
• Manage a wide variety of concurrent projects involving multiple departments and/or outside contractors.
• Manage large workload with positive attitude and proactively help co-workers.
• Lead in the interviewing, hiring, training, and decision making process for all new hires within the manufacturing shop.
• Actively participate in early phase equipment / production line specification, design, qualification, installation and site acceptance testing.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering field or the equivalent in experience.
• Ideally 5+ years of operations management experience in a manufacturing/industrial environment (preferred in same field).
• Ability to manage workload while contributing to a positive, team oriented work environment.
• Adept at industrial safety practices and policies for high volume, cutting edge technologies.
• Experienced in legal and compliance requirements and regulations on operation.
• A demonstrated history of large scale manufacturing responsibility is highly preferred.
• Skilled at leading, coaching and developing direct reports across a broad range of engineering and technical disciplines.
• Broad experience with lean manufacturing systems and methodologies, including; Tier Accountability, Layered Auditing, Continuous Improvement and Kaizen Activities.
• Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for a large technical team.
• Skilled with common workplace software (MS Word, Excel, Visio, Access, etc.).
• Plan shifts accounting for holidays and other absences as needed.
• Availability for off-hours calls.