Production Manager

The Production Manager (1st Shift) is responsible for ensuring performance to established safety, quality and productivity standards and best practices through engagement and involvement of work cell employees. In addition, they will lead the continuous improvement process to optimize safety, quality and productivity within defined manufacturing system and process limits through Area Improvement Teams and other best practice approaches.

Client Details

Our client is a composite manufacturing company based in Maryland geared towards the aerospace industry.

This is a 24/7 facility that is spread across 3-shifts. The facility is a 'vintage' facility that was established in the 1950s with 300 employees on-site. The most difficult aspect of this job could be the facility's unique operation and learning the technology.

Description

• Ensure execution of the manufacturing plan to ensure safe operations, 1st pass Quality yield, schedule adherence and meet production volumes,
• Drive root cause corrective actions for Safety incidents/near misses and address of Customer/manufacturing Quality issues,
• Lead the work Area Team. Communicate and reinforce expectations. Monitor performance and take corrective actions to ensure compliance with HSE and Quality and best practices and productivity targets by executing the performance management process. (i.e. HSE leading indicators, 1st pass yield, Customer complaints and other performance metrics)
• Ensure work cell resources are adequate to meet plan (Right people in the right role at the right time)
• Drive meaningful year-over-year improvement within established boundaries via employee engagement and continuous improvement tools, such as workout, kaizen, lean sigma, etc.
• Participate in the development of work cell operating plan (Key X's, Labor Plan, Budget etc.) and action plans.
• Support cross functional, plant-wide improvement initiatives
• Provides visible leadership and involves whole team in improvement activities to grow skills and increase engagement.

Profile

• Bachelor's of Science, Engineering
• Minimum 5-7 years manufacturing/ engineering leadership role
• An obvious history of roles that clearly demonstrate successful Team Leadership, Problem Solving, Lean Improvement and business results
• Clear understanding of Lean principles with demonstrated utilization and significant results
• Leadership of continuous improvement team initiative with significant results,
• Experience in Six-Sigma problem solving team initiatives with significant results

Job Offer

• Clear growth trajectory
• Competitive base salary: $125,000 - $150,000
• Bonus Incentive (Individual performance + company performance)
• Hands-on Position

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