Great Dane

Description

• Ensure employee compliance with all safety rules and requirements.
• Meet or exceed plant goals (Safety, People, Quality, Throughput, Cost, etc.).
• Ensure plant compliance with all federal and state and company mandated regulations.
• P&L responsibility for plant and manages budget.
• Develop and implement strategies for optimizing ROI on all plant resources.
• Implement and manage company initiatives: Behavior Based Safety, Lean Manufacturing, etc.
• Define, analyze and prioritize business requirements; Identify production solutions.
• Participate in strategic activities to ensure viability of company resources.
• Manage all site operations to ensure ample resources to accomplish plant performance and profit goals.
• Identify areas for capital improvement in both the processes and systems; continuously research new system

functionality/trends and best practices.

• Interface with sales as appropriate.
• Resolve intra-plant functional issues.
• Ensure documentation of standard processes/procedures.
• Monitor interactions/interfaces with both internal and outsourced systems.
• Manage and respond to data requests; assemble, analyze and format data into useable reports.
• Monitor the auditing of plant data to ensure compliance and data integrity; detect, troubleshoot and resolve data

issues.

• Represent plant with key vendors and customers.
• Acts as the change agent of the plant.
• Lead and ensure appropriate hiring, coaching, training and development of employees; form high performance teams

and motivate all employees across his organization.

• Defines the right processes to create efficient workflows and measures performance, defines and pursues

improvement opportunities.

• Review and approve employee actions in terms or hiring, promotion, discipline or termination.
• Assist with assessment, recognition, retention and employee development initiatives.
• Participate in project management activities, including work planning and issue tracking.
• Broaden personal knowledge in functional areas including HR, Accounting, Procurement, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in related discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Engineering or related discipline); MBA

desired.

• Experience: 5-10+ years of relevant work experience leading similar organizations or equivalent combination of

education and training.

• Skills: Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including advanced data functions in Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills; Ability to collect and analyze data and present findings.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Solid ability in identifying and resolving problems in a timely, effective manner.
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in Lean Manufacturing is desired.
• Demonstrate understanding of an effective safety culture.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited

standardization exists.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and

the general public.

• Strong process thinking to identify best and most efficient processes and how to implement process improvements, not

only in manufacturing but across all functional areas.

• Strong ability to coach and lead continuous improvement sessions.
• Ability to build internal and external relationships.
• Ability to identify talent and motivate people.
• Travel: Travel as needed.