Location: Chittenango, NY
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: $130,000-$170,000 but will be evaluated depending on candidates' knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Job Summary: The primary function of this position is to manage operations in order to meet daily safety, quality, productivity, cost and team building requirements.
Essential Job Functions/Duties: - Determine appropriate staffing levels for manufacturing areas
- Accountable for development of site supervisors and manufacturing managers.
- Responsible for fostering a well-trained workforce with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
- Perform performance management review for operations supervisors and manufacturing managers including the establishment of goals and objective that correspond to site objectives.
- Responsible to build and improve a process that creates a quality product.
- Responsible to ensure standardized work is in place for all processes and adherence to quality process.
- Responsible for prevention of defects and scraps.
- Build own technical knowledge in support of key process parameters.
- Lead, support and plan improvement using Systematic Problem Solving.
- Establish training plan and targets for critical jobs.
- Provide and oversee training including training and cross training plans.
- Apply and coach continuous improvement.
- Responsible for site production goals, metrics, and driving quarter over quarter improvement.
- Responsible to implement continuous improvement efforts.
- Collaborate with maintenance department to implement preventive maintenance on critical equipment.
- Responsible for resource planning in preparation for new products
- Create an environment which supports idea generation through Continuous Improvement
- Propose equipment needs for capital project implementations and may also participate in project implementation.
- Ensure problems are correctly identified and cost effective solutions are implemented.
- Initiate improvements to save material and energy costs.
- Drive quarter over quarter variable cost improvements
- Ensure compliance with HR Policies and practices
- Establish and direct site policies and practices.
- Responsible for discipline issues including attendance, employee relations, and violations of company policies.
- Responsible for ensuring operations supervisor adherence to the completion of Accident Investigation forms.
- Attend all accident investigations and be responsible to implementation of safety countermeasures and doing root cause analysis to determine appropriate safety changes that are needed to improve plant safety
- Responsible for oversight of safety training program.
- Responsible to adhere to all site safety policies and procedures
- Coach and model safe behaviors, respect for environment and 6S behaviors.
- Champion safety practices at the site.
- Ability to work at the Chittenango facility
- Ability to work hours in addition to the regular work week, including evenings and weekends as needed.
- Various other duties as assigned by Supervision
Qualifications: 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education: Bachelor's degree; or four to ten years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Six sigma experience desirable.
Experience: Manufacturing experience in a foundry or vacuum melting environment preferred.
Other Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: - Language Skills - Ability to read, understand and comprehend document such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, Oracle reports and Internal Methods Sheets (IMS). Ability to carry out instruction in written, oral or diagram form. Excellent team skills and able to interact with other employees, engineers and leadership. Ability to review plant performance with Executive Management. Review progress with Continuous Improvement and Engineers to solve issues.
- Mathematical Skills - ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Reasoning Ability - Ability to deal with problems involving multiple variables in standardized situations.
- Computer Skills - Knowledgeable of Microsoft Office and Manufacturing software. Knowledge of computers.
This is a management position This is a full time position Pay Range: $130,000-$170,000
