Senior Manufacturing Representative - Machine Shop

Electric Boats$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent required
  • 5+ years experience in a machine shop environment
  • Willingness to work all shifts and overtime
  • Experience scheduling in a manufacturing setting
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance

Responsibilities

  • Plan and organize multiple machine shop projects
  • Oversee project completion within budget and time constraints
  • Manage resources and track project progress
  • Act as a liaison between various stakeholders
  • Identify and resolve potential project delays
  • Provide weekly updates on project status
  • Lead project teams and ensure task collaboration

Benefits

  • Opportunity to develop project management skills
  • Exposure to various trades and stakeholders
  • Dynamic and fast-paced work environment
  • Involvement in capital project management
  • Potential for overtime and flexible scheduling
Full Job Description
Overview

The successful candidate is responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing multiple component projects within the machine shop. They will ensure they are completed successfully within budget and on time to customer needs. They will manage resources, track progress, communicate with all stakeholders across multiple trades, and resolve issues to achieve project goals.

 

The candidate will develop project plans, define the overall scope of work remaining, set intermediate goals, identify long lead items, critical material holdups and drive resolutions to all of these potential delays. They will help oversee the execution of the project plans and help manage the resources and track progress. 

 

This role will be the liaison between the on floor supervision, planning, the General Foreman and the Manager. The Manufacturing Rep will monitor the project progress, identify potential risks to schedule dates and develop plans to resolve the issues to get the schedule back to track to goal delivery.  They will provide weekly updates to the project status.  The candidate will lead and motivate project teams, assign tasks and ensure collaboration among the trades.  They will manage project budgets, tracking cost and suggesting adjustments when needed to management. This position will be responsible to oversee and initiate project meetings as required. Additionally this position will assist in the management of the capital projects throughout the machine shop in project management often working with vendors to obtain updated quotes and meeting project milestones. 

Qualifications

Required:

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experiencein a machine shop environment
  • Candidate must be willing to work all shifts and overtime
  • Experience scheduling in a manufacturing environment
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance

Preferred:

  • Degree in Mechanical Design, or related degree, Accounting or Finance
  • Background in business planning, work execution, and customer relations
Skills

Skills:

  • Data entry, reporting, record tracking
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Leadership and team management skills
  • Organizational and time management skills
  • Problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Technical skills related to project management methodologies and tools
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and adapt to changing priorities
  • Managing budgets
  • Experience with product structure and bill of material structuring
  • Project management
  • Documentation
  • Strong Computer skills/ Microsoft applications
Physical QualificationsClimbing, Color Vision, Crawling, Heavy Lifting, Kneeling, Light Lifting, Medium Lifting, Pulling, Pushing, Reaching, Stooping, Twisting Environmental AttributesAcids or Alkalis, Cold, Dry, Dusty, Fumes, Hot, Inside, Noise, Oily, Outside, Wet

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