Engineering Lab Manager Jobs in Ohio (NOW HIRING)

Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you.Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

General Description

This position is responsible to supervise, establish and coordinate the production schedules in a factory environment. Ensures the flow of materials, parts, and assemblies between or within departments. Manages the production workers on the line to include performance and behavior standards along with meeting production schedules.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Inspires team members to learn, teach, and grow into empowered and engaged teams.

• Engage with all team members and build strong relationships and understanding of their roles, responsibilities, and perspectives.

• Promote the Empowered Ownership Model and help team member's work toward their strengths and goals.

• Encourages everyone to hold themselves and each other accountable.

• Collaborate with the team to schedule work to be performed at each workstation and team member/s to each station.

• Ensure all team members work safely and have a safe work environment.

• Facilitate Empowered Ownership work teams and represent department in meetings.

• Lead and promote lean continuous improvement initiatives.

• Maintain attendance records, job procedures and ISO documentation.

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of manufacturing, assembly operation, and/or leadership experience.

• Must be accepting of feedback and open to developing and refining professional skills.

• The ability to provide constructive feedback to others is critical to this position.

• Demonstrated leadership characteristics: accountable, flexible, open minded, positive communication style, elevates others, proactive, and acts with integrity.

• Ability to understand manufacturing processes, blueprints, and lean principles.

• Creative problem solver, capable of making decisions independently and with the team.

• Must hold an excellent work record with examples of personal/professional growth, dependability, and professionalism.

• Leadership training and/or 2 years supervisory experience is a plus.

About Us

We're known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We're a behind-the-scenes engine in the world's most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy's. We're 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world's most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status),or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.