Manufacturing Operations Manager Jobs in Portage, MI

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Directs, administers, and coordinates all the activities of the plant operations to achieve safety, quality, cost and delivery objectives. Manages the plant staff, including department managers responsible for Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, and the plant Lean Manufacturing Engineer.

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Meet manufacturing operation objectives, including key metrics related to safety, quality, cost, delivery, and financial performance.
• Ensure plant has a safe working environment through safe work practices, employee awareness, proper 5S and housekeeping, layered safety audits and closure of safety related issues, and an effective emergency plan.
• Cooperate with the General Manager on projects and plans plant resources including personnel, capital equipment, facilities, and new program requirements.
• Cooperate with the General Manager for capacity planning activities, including assessment and update of plant sales forecast and population of corporate molding, painting, and assembly capacity tools.
• Ensure plant manufacturing operations closely adhere to Summit Lean Manufacturing System (SLMS) practices including root cause problem solving, Kaizen, standardized work, continuous flow, pull systems, and Jidoka.
• Ensure successful new product launch by engaging closely in the product development process, ensuring plant prepares for successful launch of new products, and ensuring plant team engages in team-work with corporate engineering, sales, and materials functions throughout the entire development and launch cycle of new products.
• Promotes the utilization of root cause problem solving using Practical Problem Solving (PPS).
• Manages and provides leadership to plant staff managers by conducting daily staff meetings, clearly assigning responsibility for issues, requiring departmental action plans, and ensuring Plan-Do-Check-Act methodology is utilized.
• Cooperates with the General Manager to ensure plant compliance to SPI systems and procedures supporting IATF 16949 Quality standard and ISO 14001 Environmental standard.
• Ensures plant adopts and complies with corporate standardization initiatives including SLMS, molding, painting, quality systems, maintenance systems, materials systems, etc.
• Assists the General Manager in plant Talent Development initiative to train and develop high potential employees for growth within SPI.
• As needed by the General Manager, understands and represents corporate management in matters of company philosophy, quality ethics, and personnel policies.
• Manages overall plant manufacturing/support personnel activities, including hiring, promotion, demotion, transfers, and disciplinary actions.
• Assists the General Manager in managing plant customer relationships, including ensuring appropriate SPI to customer contact relationships are maintained.
• Works with the General Manager to provide necessary resources to protect and maintain the facility at all times.
• Ensures plant compliance to all local, state and federal government regulations and reporting requirements.
• Works with Human Resources to assure a positive, constructive working environment built on honesty, fairness, integrity, and respect. Provides a working atmosphere conducive to good industrial and community relations.
• Personally maintains plant floor focus, "go and see", engage with all shifts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and experience include minimum of 5 years experience at a technical or management level, knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures, budgeting and costing, quality control procedures and human resource management techniques. 4 year degree or 7 years progressive experience in a manufacturing environment.

Skills and abilities include ability to gather and synthesize information and a minimum score of 50 on the Wonderlic Select Assessment (Traditional Score of 28 on the cognitive portion).

Travel requirements typically do require less than 5% travel.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.