Plant Manager
DISHER
ERP
Production Manager
IPEX by Aliaxis
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Lead the day-to-day activities of extrusion to ensure products are manufactured to a high level of efficiency and quality, and according to budget; address product performance and quality issues and formulate corrective actions; evaluate hold crates and bring them to conformity when applicable.
- Analyze operation data daily that summarize production efficiency, scrap rates, regrind usage, downtime, and change over times by machine and by shift.
- Present operational data to Supervisors and Managers daily to explain results, goals and implement methods for ongoing continuous improvement to achieve high efficiency, high regrind use, low scrap generation with minimal downtime.
- Review the master schedule supplied by the corporate scheduler and create daily schedule for the plant that includes plan for labor resources, machine utilization, and die change over activities.
- Effectively run morning transition meetings to review operational data, safety, quality, daily schedule objectives and maintenance priorities.
- Enter production into stock daily using software and balance and close work orders.
- Lead the development of a culture where 5S and housekeeping are maintained at world-class levels and there is genuine pride in the workplace.
- Manage inventory for production supplies.
- Responsible for implementation and compliance of Health & Safety Employee Meetings for extrusion, compound, and support departments.
- Lead Supervisors and employees to ensure ongoing development, performance improvement plans and cross functional training.
- Use HR processes and systems to develop the potential of all team members and proactively deal with performance issues.
- Participate in the recruitment and training of employees alongside HR/Payroll Coordinator & Supervisors and ensure labor vacancies are filled to prevent downtime.
- Conformance with IPEX internal guidelines on management roles, responsibilities, and policies.
- Identify, report, and follow-up on variances as related to safety, environmental, production, raw materials, quality, and maintenance.
- Participate JHSC meetings, shift meetings, accident investigations and return to work programs.
- Build and maintain effective and positive relationships with other managers at the site and in corporate functions, and collaboratively build and execute plans to optimize the value stream and achieve operational excellence.
Requirements
- Completion of College or University with combined with 5 years manufacturing and supervisory experience where change management skills have been developed.
- A consistent track record in using a continuous improvement methods (Six Sigma, Lean, 5S) in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent leadership, initiative, organization, and management skills; written and verbal communication; problem solving; and troubleshooting skills.
- A solid understanding of software applications such as ERP/MES systems, MS Word, MS Excel, and Outlook.
- The candidate must be able to assess the requirements of a fast-growing business and respond with the right strategic direction.
- Proven leadership experience in companies that have undergone spectacular growth and/or significant change.
