Job Details
Position Summary: The Plant Operations Manager plays a pivotal role in overseeing production schedules, maintaining quality standards, ensuring compliance with company policies, fostering a safe and efficient work environment, and optimizing operations for enhanced efficiency and cost control.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead resource management to meet production, safety, and quality goals.
- Mentor and develop shift supervisors and department leads.
- Identify skill gaps and recommend/provide training to ensure employee proficiency aligns with procedures, policies, and plant objectives.
- Supervise all production activities to ensure adherence to performance and safety standards.
- Champion plant safety programs and actively contribute to safety performance.
- Address daily operational and personnel issues including quality, equipment downtime, labor shortages, and material availability.
- Foster open communication across departments and shifts through regular updates.
- Support the hiring, discipline, and termination processes.
- Resolve employee morale concerns.
- Consistently administer company policies and escalate issues as necessary.
- Design robust and sustainable processes for material flow, resource allocation, and value creation to achieve objectives.
- Implement new processes plant-wide, provide training to supervisors and leaders, and develop training materials.
- Evaluate process performance at micro and macro levels using measured data and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree in Engineering or related field required; relevant experience preferred.
- 7-10 years of manufacturing experience preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to grasp and apply new information quickly and effectively.
- Proficient analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional judgment, attention to detail, and critical thinking skills.
- Thorough understanding of manufacturing processes, including machining, assembly, and testing.
- Stay abreast of industry literature to apply current best practices to production challenges.
- Comprehend quantitative enterprise goals for quality, delivery, cost, and growth.