Manufacturing Supervisor/Superintendent, Building Materials, Manufacturing Engineer
Defiance, OH.
Competitive Salary [about $146K] Full Benefits - World Class Manufacturer - National
The purpose of the Plant Superintendent role is to provide management and leadership to achieve safety, quality and production goals. The Plant Superintendent will lead a team of hourly and salary employees and be responsible for all aspects of the operation including safety, production, maintenance, warehouse, budget management, productivity improvements, quality.
SUMMARY:
Maintain departments in proper and safe condition, ensure environmental compliance, oversee programs to safeguard personnel, preserve facilities, and promote good housekeeping
Manage the overall activities of the assigned operations to ensure proper workflow, maintenance of production schedules, acceptable quality levels and inventory levels
Utilize facilities, workforce, and analysis of methods and materials to achieve economic operating cost using team management concepts and administration of work rules
Manage planning and production to direct production scheduling and productions to ensure efficient production schedules, economic operating efficiencies and process capabilities, and maintenance of current quality systems. Work closely with QA, QC and engineering. Develop and implement annual budgets, quality programs, and productivity improvement plans. Coordinate technical activities with Engineering.
NEEDED:
Bachelor's degree in engineering preferred (Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial or Ceramics) or business management with the ability to demonstrate technical proficiency will be considered with a minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in a manufacturing environment that includes supervisory and management roles
Proven leadership and management skills
Manages a staff of 150+ hourly/6 salary employees, sets direction and deploys resources. Responsible for performance evaluations, pay reviews, hiring, and terminating.
Demonstrated ability to drive change in a heavy industrial environment
Demonstrated ability to develop highly efficient teams on the shop floor
Demonstrated experience in productivity tools such as Lean and or Six Sigma
Experience with an ERP system is required, SAP would be preferred
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
Skills and Certifications [note: bold skills and certification are required] - Bachelor's Degree
Candidate Details: 7+ to 10 years' experience/Seniority Level - Mid-Senior
Screening Questions: Bachelor's Degree in Engineer/7 years of manufacturing leadership
Ideal Candidate: Manages a staff of 150+ hourly/6 salary employees, sets direction and deploys resources. Responsible for performance evaluations, pay reviews, hiring, and terminating. Strong Shop Floor Presence. This position is open due to promotion. This is a critical role for Insulation Systems Davison and the Defiance plant. Will be responsible for Operations budget/planning/strategic thinking - driving cost reduction - six sigma - continuous improvement... being able to grasp and understand mechanical issues... crank-drive motors. Preference is to get an engineer - superintendents are very involved into the breakdown level, preventative actions... came up as a process engineer, into supervisor then leadership Coaching/Guiding of the Engineers and be able to lead them. Understanding Batching/glass melting/ovens/furnace experience would be good - glass manufacturing.
They will be over the Pipe Production Department which is the largest department, 10 production lines 156 people in the department. 4 production supervisors, 2 full time engineers & a Project Engineer dotted line reports to this role. This is a Union plant - UAW & USW - needs to understand the union/grievance process. Ability to work across the maintenance organization. The Maintenance Supervisor will dotted line report to this position-Plant Superintendent. . The shift mechanics report up through operations. Need ability to understand AC&R & working cross-functionally with the maintenance department.