Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Transformation, this position is responsible for managing all resources involved in the assembly of commercial trailer axles, commercial trailer components, and related heavy-duty wheel-end products.
In addition this position is responsible for
- Supporting financial, customer, quality and employee objectives
- Maintaining manufacturing timelines, developing and implementing plans to enhance productivity, cost improvement objectives, and nurturing employee development
- Driving the implementation within the department of key corporate initiatives such as Lean and EH&S.
Responsibilities :
- Administer FleetPride company and plant policies
- Maintain effective intra and inter departmental communications
- Establish, monitor, and maintain active communications between all levels of plant personnel to assure a positive work environment.
- Direct the development and implementation of cost, productivity, and strategic manufacturing programs consistent with plant objectives and using Lean principles.
- Analyze department capacity restrictions and develop alternative plans to improve methods and layouts
- Recommend new equipment expenditures to align capacity with plant objectives.
- Work closely with Demand Planning and scheduling to optimize factory throughput.
- Identify metrics for key business drivers and reinforce knowledge of them throughout the operations.
- Implement process/quality improvement and cost reduction
- Effectively manage the departmental budget, including tracking of capital equipment.
- Maintain departmental tooling and equipment, including the provision of new/replacement hand tools etc.
- Manage plant manpower and capacity planning.
- Communicate and enforce product quality standards and review team/individual quality performance through the analysis of relevant data and metrics.
- Provide on-going mentoring, coaching and development of direct reports to instill a team-focused and quality culture within the department.
- Complete annual performance evaluation/mid-year progress reviews for all direct reports.
- Identify opportunities for development and support employees through on-going coaching/counseling, as required.
- Pursue and implement the FleetPride code of ethics and values
- Provide leadership with FleetPride’s management system for environment, health, safety (EH&S).
- Maintain a positive commitment to the prevention of pollution and protection of the environment following environmental procedures, work instructions and other operational controls.
- Actively participate in the quality improvement process.
- Perform other duties, as required.
Desired Skills & Experience
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 5 years experience in manufacturing or operations.
- Minimum 2 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment
- Excellent working knowledge of LEAN manufacturing processes and principles. Six Sigma Tools would be beneficial.
- No relocation benefit is being offered with this position. Only candidates residing within the immediate geographical area will be considered.
Position Criteria:
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to build an effective teams and network across the organization
- Strong analytical aptitude and complex problem solving skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office.
- Effective time management and project management skills.
- Strong commitment to customer service and organizational excellence