Plant Manager at Hoffmaster Group Inc. in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Job Description:

Primary Purpose of the Role

The Plant Manager / Ops Director will lead the operations team in their lean journey and continue to help meet strategic growth plans. This Manager / Director is accountable for managing the people, safety, quality, factory productivity, lean initiatives, & culture and will ensure the achievement of key KPI performance metrics within the manufacturing organization with focus on meeting/exceeding customer expectations. The chief responsibility of this position is to manage the overall safety, food safety, quality, production, and training systems within the manufacturing site. Our goal is to have an efficient, effective production system that meets our customer needs by eliminating waste everyday. We accomplish this by finding ways to shorten lead-time, reduce inventory and reduce cost using PDCA in spite of any variable volume and economic downturn. The chief responsibility of this position is to manage the overall safety, quality, production, and training systems within the manufacturing site. The Plant Manager identifies, assigns, directs, and leads process improvement projects to improve the effectiveness of the manufacturing process insuring customer satisfaction and maximum profitability of the operation is attained. This person plays a key role with the Distribution, Planning, Labor Relations, and Cost Accounting processes. In addition they interfacing routinely with Customer Care, Marketing, Human Resources, Procurement, Sales, and manufacturing Production Managers, Graphic Manager, and Distribution Manager in the Oshkosh location. Collaborative works with other divisions as required to take advantage of synergy opportunities and share best practices.

Essential Job Duties

• Model company values and Lean principles through personal actions/behaviors.

• Manage daily operations in alignment with basic plant management requirements.

• Develop team leaders to master processes within the group and coach other team members.

• Written and verbal communication upward, downward, and across the organization chart.

• Interacts Proactively with Union Leadership applying work rules and policies of the CBA consistently.

• Recommend/work with HR to address any labor/management grievances or disagreement. Thorough understanding of collective bargaining agreement to permit effective management of staff.

• Direct accountability to safety performance of the operations - make best use of standard work and best practices to avoid any injury to any employee

• Leadership responsibility for manufacturing, distributing, and consistently maintaining safe and qualify food products by following good manufacturing practices, allergen controls, food defense, HACCP, and SQF requirements.

• Ensure standardized work is being followed.

• Troubleshoot and lead problem solving to prevent problems from reoccurring

• Take action to implement improvements quickly.

• Work with Planning, Cost Accounting, and Production Managers to assure performance objectives are met and or exceeded.

• Understand manufacturing capabilities, product features and asset throughput's.

• Provide Strategic Leadership for the Organization - Capital Investment Planning and Budgeting

• Lead and participate at safety, operational, and cross functional meetings with all departments as required.

• Use of analysis and data as a predictive technique to identify unwanted performance trends and then able to empower others to put action plans in place to solve.

• Develop key performance metrics and plans to improve performance within the scope of the role.

• Monitor key metrics and act on root causes of unplanned or unwanted shifts in performance.

• Create PIP plans.

• Understand new or different methods/tools/equipment of manufacturing to reduce labor or material costs - or to decrease ergonomic risk or other safety hazards to employees.

• Cost management - required to interact routinely with Accounting. Understand Production Rate, Waste, and Labor Standards and how they are applicability to the company's business processes.

• Escalate issues that cannot be resolved within the team structure.

• Interacts and communicates proactively with Marketing, Procurement, Planning, HR, Finance, Marketing and Sales personnel.

• Report on key metrics around manufacturing performance including, safety, quality, and spending, and service.

• Address service disruptions, physical disruption, people disruptions, and process disruptions and implement corrective process actions.

• Follow and Maintain all Food Safety, GMP and HACCP Guidelines

Required Skills/Abilities

• Ability to see waste in the manufacturing process and then prioritizes, develop objectives, and then directs subordinates to focus on the right activities within the business to optimize performance.

• Plan Do Check Act cycle. Lean Methodologies

• Ability to determine the key things the business needs to accomplish, organize work to measure current performance and improvement progress, and rally people within all functions to drive toward team-based results.

• Networks well both internally and externally, possessing organizational sensitivity and a natural tendency to communicate proactively. Clear concise communication both verbally and in writing to all levels within the organization.

• Is able to "sell" concepts using data that is clearly organized to support positions taken.

• Acts on work needed with little prompting, and does not accept current methods or practices unless that are proven to be effectively supporting the business.

• Uses Tools and information to make informed decisions in a timely manner.

• Understands who the key internal and external customers are and works with a mindset to clearly define and understand customer requirements.

• Uses Project Management Skills and analytical approaches to get at root causes for issues and determine the most effective actions to correct problems - is led by data.

• Insures that Daily Production Schedules are met while optimizing cost (efficiency, uptime, and scrap).

• Develop employees, delegate, coach and build teams.

• Overall knowledge of the facility, equipment, and how things operate.

• Utilizes good team member skills.

• Educated to university degree level or equivalent professional qualifications.

• Professional certification by our recognized accreditation agency desirable.

• Printing and Paper Converting Experience desirable.

• Management experience in a Union environment required.
• Preferred Bachelors Degree
• Minimum 10 years of related work experience

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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