-Contribute to the strategic planning process of developing and implementing operations strategy
-Ensure fabrication teams operational performance metrics meet or exceed the IMS-EP objectives
-Conduct weekly GEMBA meeting with Zone teams to communicate daily performance, discuss close calls and remind employees of proper procedures
-Review daily fabrication shop production schedules and create team plans accordingly
-Conduct meetings with all lead persons to discuss plan of action
-Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to employees and assign duties
-Execute plan and monitor progress while providing expertise and assistance in areas needed to ensure successful completion of weekly production demands
-Develop, train, provide effective supervision and motivate hourly fabrication team
-Identify opportunities for cross training and capacity training in order to enhance capacity and responsiveness to customer requirements
-Ensure short throughput time and optimize production team based on fluctuating production demands
-Develops and recommends improvements of facility, equipment, or procedures to improve safety, quality, and efficiency
-Overall capacity planning, allocation of reserve capacity, identification of planned shutdowns and allocation of down-time for maintenance
-Reviews and analyzes production, quality, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, and operating or production problems
-Consults with engineering team relative to modification of machines and equipment in order to improve production or quality of products
-Recommends, implements and monitors changes required to ensure consistent hours per unit
-Monitor prototype project timeliness and expenditures on a per project basis to meet deadlines
-Work with Quality Control to establish a self-auditing process to check parts for conformance to print
-Manage and direct team and work with HR to address employee issues as they arise
-Manage disciplinary and progress reviews process
-Enforce and monitor all company policies
-Ensures health and safety guidelines set by the company
-Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications:
-Degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience
-8+ years of experience in sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing environment
-Strong understanding of sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing processes including, milling, forming, turrets, punch press, laser cutting/marking, welding, grinding and paint application
-5+ years of management/supervisory experience in a fabrication or manufacturing environment
-Experience managing low-volume, high-mix fabrication operations with significant schedule variability
-Experience communicating production schedules, commitments and potential issues with customers and internal teams
-Experience leading Managers, Leads and hourly manufacturing personnel
Director of Operations in Carol Stream at L2x Talent Solutions
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 3 days ago.