Manufacturing Manager
Would you describe yourself as someone who possesses a high level of attention to detail as well as an inquisitive drive to execute work per fabrication drawings and design plans?
Is driving a team of hard-working and fast-paced assemblers and fabricators to schedule something you find rewarding?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coaching shop team to review, plan, and properly execute orders from engineering.
- Coaching the engineering team to properly send out orders to the shop.
- Coordinate with estimating team, management, customers, and vendors to assure alignment.
- Reviews drawings and designs prior to hand-off to the shop.
- Responsible for ensuring a safe work environment in the shop.
- Implement safety measures during all work in the shop and oversee field audits for safety.
- Responsible for the cleanliness of the shop and warehouse.
- Management of engineering and shop resources for proper workload and drive efficiency.
- Coordination with engineering to schedule projects in the shop to ensure on-time shipments.
- Manage shop work orders and shop scheduling.
- Manage shop budget and shop schedule.
- Oversee inventory and proper stocking of shop consumables.
- Build a team of reliable external resources to manage peak workload.
- Leadership Activities:
- Oversee and manage all shop employees, field installers, and contractors.
- Recruit and train new team members to support growth
- Conduct consistent and periodic reviews and monitoring of direct reports.
- Align team, provide training, and recruit team members to support growth
- Competencies:
- Achievement Focus - Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles, measures self against standard of excellence, recognizes and acts on opportunities, sets and achieves challenging goals, and takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
- Managing Customer Focus - Develops new approaches to meeting customer needs, establishes customer service standards, monitors customer satisfaction, promotes customer focus, and provides training in customer service delivery.
- Managing People - Develops direct reports' skills and encourages growth, includes direct reports in planning, makes them-self available to direct reports, provides direction and gains compliance, provides regular performance feedback, and takes responsibility for direct reports' activities.
- Planning and Organization - Integrates changes smoothly, plans for additional resources, prioritizes and plans work activities, sets goals and objectives, uses time efficiently, and works in an organized manner.
- Problem Solving - Develops alternative solutions, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, identifies problems in a timely manner, resolves problems in early stages, and works well in group problem solving situations.
Education/Experience:
Bachelor of Science/Engineering Preferred or manufacturing trade school certificate
Ten years of experience in custom machine fabrication, and equipment manufacturing
Process Design and Manufacturing Industry experience
Experience in leading and managing people
