Operations Manager
Southwire Company
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Denton • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Lead Southwire’s Culture of Zero by demonstrating safe and quality conscious work habits throughout all value streams and ensure that all policies and processes are deployed uniformly throughout the value streams.
- Ensures accident investigation activities are completed in a timely manner and that safety actions/ investigation results are deployed and effective within operations.
- Provide hands-on assistance and strategic support of day-to-day operations within manufacturing, maintenance and engineering.
- Create a standard for manufacturing, maintenance and engineering and ensure entire teams are properly trained, resourced, supplied, and managed to attain established objectives.
- Prioritize and drive overall production effectiveness between Value Streams to achieve overall customer demand.
- Provides leadership and development to Value Stream Managers and other functional leads within organization.
- Drives overall Team Member Engagement for Operation and ensures improvement plans are in place and acted upon.
- Participate as needed in Lean activities, such as Kaizen events, problem solving events, SMED, GEMBA walks, VSM and others.
- Lead Lean Daily Management (Daily Huddle Process - DHP) processes for VSM and functional leaders.
- Lead productivity improvement teams and projects to eliminate losses and improve manufacturing, engineering and maintenance processes.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years related supervisory experience in heavy industrial manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of above level of education and experience.
Benefits
- 401k with Matching
- Flexible Work Schedules
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Lean manufacturingKaizenSMEDGEMBAValue Stream Mappingproductivity improvementaccident investigationmanufacturing processesengineering processesmaintenance processes
Soft skills
leadershipteam member engagementstrategic supporttrainingcommunicationproblem solvingorganizational skillsresource managementdevelopmentprioritization