Duties and Responsibilities:
• Establish and manage operations budgets, capacity and manpower
• Strong understanding and hands on experience with ERP/MRP is desired.
• Ensure operational excellence and customer satisfaction
• Work with General Manager to prepare evaluations and cost justification to support capital expenditures
• Identify and implement changes in manufacturing and planning to improve efficiency, reduce cost and improve quality.
• Work with Production Supervisors to oversee preparation of various manufacturing and SCM reports including job cost analysis, production hours status report, production hour projection and delivery performance
• Participate in design reviews, technical review and program meetings ensuring that manufacturing knowledge, process capability and economic considerations are being shared, considered and acted upon
• Provide leadership to develop and execute operations strategy.
• Informed business decisions by analyzing trends and metrics, modeling financial scenarios, and delivering actionable insights on all aspects of the business
• In depth understanding of complex machinery and equipment used in the production process.
• Progressive problem solving with the use of lean methodologies and cross-communication.
• Interact with various clients in a professional manner to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to build and develop employee and management team.
• Ensure operations and equipment is in compliance to corporate guidelines and OSHA Standards. • Prioritize cross-training efforts with Supervisors.
• Must also demonstrate successful leadership and team building skills.
• Work with Engineering and Production on implementing NPI schedules and conversion of NPI into production
• Work with Procurement, Production, and Sales Manager on end-to-end SIOP inventory system from when order is placed to shipment.
• Lead Safety efforts and Safety Committee meetings with Production Manager to ensure OSHA compliance and implement safety improvements.
• Manage and analyze all facets of production data, including department and plant level productivity, efficiency, and capacity metrics.
• Any and all other duties assigned by the GM
Education and Experience:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience: 5+ years of senior leadership role managing multiple direct reports within a manufacturing environment. Aerospace manufacturing industry experience a plus.
• Interpersonal skills to communicate with plant manager, sales staff, and warehouse personnel.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• General proficiency of Microsoft Office software with excellent verbal and written skills.