Responsibilities/Duties:
- Ensure a safe working environment for all employees and ensure employees are following safety protocols at all times
- Active role and permanent position on the safety committee, complete corrective actions and conduct monthly trainings on time
- Keep JHA documents up to date with identified risks and required PPE
- Daily communication touching on any open safety topics including recordables and near misses.
- Track part rejections
- Perform investigations and implement corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence
- Review and analyze processes and procedures to identify risks of poor quality
- Develop new written procedures where a current procedure doesn't exist or is ineffective at reducing poor quality
- Develop quality gates to prevent poor quality from making it to the internal or external customer
- Understand internal and external customer expectations and develop a process and procedures to meet expectations
- Keep clear and open communication with customers
- Set daily/ weekly/ monthly targets for production lines
- Is responsible for all other duties as assigned
- Monitor/Track/Report progress of KPIs for all employees to the individuals and management, identify gaps and soluttions
- Create growth plans for employees where applicable
- Enforce process and procedures
- Document when employees fail to follow process and procedures
- Work directly with Sup and HR to ensure employee development and discipline is consistent with company standards
- Provide a 30/60/90 day evaluation for all new hires
- Full understanding of inventory transactions and how their department affects accuracy. Implement written procedures to insure their departments advance inventory accuracy
- Full understanding of revenue and gross margin targets and how their department contributes
- Implement and document 5S within the department
- Hold department to company standard for cleaning
- Stepping into production and supporting to eliminate bottlenecks
- Meet customer deadlines
- Meet department efficiency targets
- Other duties as assigned
Reporting to this position are:
- Leads
- Hourly employees within the department
Education/Experience:
- Four or more years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Extremely versed in SAP
- Knowledgeable in Excel
- Versed in Microsoft Office programs such as Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
- Ability to operate any other software required within the department
- Strong communication skills and comfortable talking in small and large groups
Specific Knowledge, Skills, Licenses, Certifications, etc.:
- Leadership: a demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
- Planning: an ability to think ahead and plan over a 30-day time span and prepare action plans to achieve results.
- Supervision, including employee hiring and retention, performance review and discipline.
- Proven track record in employee management and conflict management
- Employee training and development.
- Measurement of performance to goals and standards.
- Ability to present effectively in front of small groups.
- Ability to justify investments by detailing a return on investment.
- An ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.
- Computer literacy.
- Attention to detail.
- Problem analysis and resolution.
- Inventory management.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- An ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong team player.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Safety Glasses and steel/safety toed work boots are required.
- Other PPE equipment as required.
- Ear plugs in the clean up area
Work Environment:
- Manufacturing plant shop environment
- Exposure to moving mechanical parts.
Exposure to elements such as odor, hydraulic fluids, noise, dust, heat, cold, or chem
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