Senior Manager – Quality Assurance
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Assembly
Production Manager – Clean Room
Currier
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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Mid-LevelSenior
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Assembly
About the role
- With direction from the Director of Manufacturing, accountable for safety, quality, productivity, cost performance, and employee relations in a high-performance work team environment.
- Input required for capital improvements and budget preparation.
- Monitor production performance and implement processes, procedures, and methods to improve results in all key functional areas.
- Implement and maintain best manufacturing practices and regulatory compliance for all production activities.
- Actively manage the molding processes to verify compliance with customer demands and priorities.
- Champion a culture of safety in the organization.
- Conduct interviews, make recommendations for hire, and train new plant operators and technicians.
- Provide guidance and insight to leadership to develop buy-in to improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate production scheduling to ensure customer demand is matched with minimal overtime, inventory, and overall reduced costs.
- Mentor shift supervisors as they work to improve in their respective disciplines.
- Use data to drive decisions regarding improvement activities, downtime reduction, and quality improvement projects.
- Support activity to ensure all proper documentation has been completed for new mold/program qualifications including IQ/OQ/PQ, APQP, and other qualification activities.
- Build and maintain productive employee relationships, driving employee satisfaction; provide direction, training, and development as needed.
- Provide coaching, counseling, or discipline as needed; recommend disciplinary action to plant manager and review disciplinary action by supervisors for effectiveness and consistency.
- Work with HR to address employee concerns and issues.
- Work with internal and external resources to support the development, installation, and qualification of new automation/equipment.
- Support plant in continuous improvement initiatives, such as 5S with safety, 6 Sigma, Kaizen events, and lean manufacturing.
- Facilitate the tool room activities, schedule, and priorities.
Requirements
- Direct supervision responsibility of coordinators/shift supervisors including the areas of hiring and promotion recommendations; planning and performance management, and training.
- Indirectly involved in hiring, performance management, and disciplining decisions regarding other department employees.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or Management.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools to drive improvement.
- Previous work experience of 12 years or more, in a field directly related to this position will be considered equivalent for the above.
- Solid understanding in mold construction, plastics processing, materials, assembly, SPC, problem solving and computer software programs is desirable.
- Available for 24 hr. assistance if needed.
- Computer proficiency including word processing, data entry, spreadsheets, and generating reports using standard software applications.
- Ability to professionally handle stressful/challenging situations.
- Demonstrated strong leadership, team building, and advanced coaching skills.
- Demonstrated ability to motivate people, assess, and develop employee skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of the principles and applications associated with manufacturing operations, maintenance, and engineering.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to balance production and maintenance needs.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work with teams and lead decision-making processes in a team environment.
- Highly motivated, results oriented, driven.
