Operations ManagerProvideleadership, supervision, coordination, and direction for operations to ensureconformance to safety, quality standards, efficiency, meeting delivery targets, and financialgoals.
Job Summary - Provide leadership, coordination, and direction for all production operations, engineering, planning, and facility maintenance to meet budget.
- Facilitate the establishment and implementation of continuous improvement, lean manufacturing cycle-time reduction concepts, and plans.
- Create shipment forecast and oversee scheduling.
- Oversee the management of inventory levels, manufacturing costs, and on-time delivery to customers.
- Promote the concept of individual responsibility for product quality.
- Provide leadership and management for facility maintenance for safety, and EHS performance and regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, etc.)
- Prepare annual departmental budget, including sales bookings, shipments, and responsible for performance to plan.
- Manage performance to key performance indicator goals, including capacity utilization, labor productivity and efficiency, manufacturing cost performance (for example, on-time delivery, quality, safety, cycle time, overhead efficiency, and productivity per employee).
- Complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to management.
- Manage the expansion of facilities and the acquisition and installation of capital equipment.
- Provide leadership for and development of direct reports - establishing priorities, accountabilities, and allocating resources; guiding achievement of performance measures.
- Ownership for plant layout for all production areas.
- Participate in recruiting, selection and development of all operations personnel through maintaining discipline and personnel relations, interviewing screened applicants.
- Provide input for hiring, terminations, transfers, salary adjustments, and promotions.
- Adhere to General Requirements of Team Members including policies and procedures.
- Responsible for the proper handling and management of hazardous waste generated in their work area.
- Perform other assignments as required.
Required Skills and Qualifications - A working knowledge of manufacturing operations, scheduling, staffing, safety, and maintenance.
- Working knowledge of SPC, TQM. Lean Manufacturing, and ISO standards; Mil Specs required at CAS facilities.
- Demonstrated project management experience-planning, budget, allocation of resources.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with customers.
- Negotiation and conflict management skills together with demonstrated experience troubleshooting and problem-solving.
- Intermediate level of computer skills in email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.
- Ability to write and speak effectively with employees at all levels within the organization.
- Detail oriented with attention to accuracy.
- Excellent written and verbal skills to interact with people at all levels and functions inside and outside Ducommun LaBarge Technologeis, Inc.
- Ability to quickly and accurately assess and address complex problems using creative approaches.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking skills that portray the ability to conceptualize business requirements in a proactive manner.
Required Experience and Education - Bachelors degree in Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering,
- Business Administration or relevant discipline.
- Minimum 7-10 years experience showing progression in production management, with supervisory experience.
403 LaBarge Avenue
Huntsville, Arkansas, 72740
United States
