Manufacturing Manager

We are currently seeking a Manufacturing Manager to work for one of our clients in Barclay, MD on a direct hire basis. Must have 8+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment; 4 years in a management/leadership role.

JOB SCOPE:

Oversee all production processes and supervise the activities of multi-shift production co-workers to ensure efficient and high-quality production in the location.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Drive improvements to production methods, equipment performance, product quality, and efficiency.

• Strive to ensure quality outcome of product the first time, responsible for correcting quality errors and fixing processes to avoid future quality errors from occurring.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production of doors.

• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.

• Understand and support the new hire training and orientation process. Provide follow-on training as necessary to ensure all employees are capable of meeting production and quality goals.

• Partner with human resources to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.

• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees.

• Train and develop co-workers in their jobs.

• Develop training plans to account for the future success of the site and growth of personnel into advanced roles.

• Hire, train, develop, evaluate, coach, counsel, and discharge staff, and resolve personnel grievances.

• Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.

• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports, in order to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.

• Coordinate operations and activities within or between departments/location.

• Interpret specifications, blue prints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.

• Maintain operations data such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.

• Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.

• Requisition materials, supplies.

• Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.

• Direct and coordinate production activities across multiple shifts.

• Stay within budget, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

• Review production schedules and work orders to make decisions concerning staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary and inventory limitations and time constraints.

• Review operations and confer with technical staff to resolve production or processing problems.

• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs for inventory maintained by production.

• Prepare and maintain production reports.

• Monitor production standards, examining work in process or finished goods, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.

• Develop, implement, and/or execute production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.

• Coordinate and recommend procedures for production facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.

• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.

• Manage production with minimum waste and quality errors.

• Observe work, and monitor processes, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production and safety standards.

• Enforce safety procedures and policies and ensure a safe work environment free of hazards.

• Ensure compliance with OSHA and other government agencies.
• Ensure proper compliance and execution of the HAZMAT program.
• Ensure co-workers are following safety rules and are demonstrating safe working behavior.
• Champion an assigned safety policy; manage and execute the policy program for the site.
• Participate in monthly safety committee meetings.
• In the event of incident/injury, complete a thorough and timely accident investigation report with corrective action input. Develop an action plan to correct safety issues. Transport employee to seek appropriate medical care if necessary.
• Conduct monthly site safety inspections, and conduct weekly tool box safety talks.
• Effectively investigate customer complaints and ensure quality customer service. Adjust production as findings demonstrate to be appropriate.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

High School Diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor's Degree preferred.

SKILLS:

Computer Skills - MS Office, WMS and ordering system

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Valid driver’s license required. Safe driver history/record required for insurance and liability.

COMPETENCY QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Acts with Integrity - Demonstrates responsibility and honest behavior in all roles, tasks and responsibilities
• Business Acumen - Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communicates Effectively - Creates open channels of communication, adapts message to fit the audience, expresses ideas clearly and concisely, keeps others well informed; listens carefully to input and feedback
• Customer Driven - Provides outstanding customer service (to both internal and external customers); follows through on responsibilities to customers; leaves all customers satisfied
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
• Drives Results - Demonstrates the ability to get results despite large workload, competing demands and a fast-paced environment; performed all tasks in job description in a highly effective manner, creative and innovative and drives process improvements
• Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Product/Job Knowledge - Demonstrates a high level of knowledge of job, products, services and procedures. Has a high level of job knowledge and understanding of systems, procedures, etc.
• Promotes Teamwork - Demonstrates positive working relationships with co-workers, effectively handles conflict situations, comes to work when scheduled, adheres to schedule for arrival time, breaks and lunches
• Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
• Drives Quality – Work is correct and error free within company policies and guidelines, checks quality and correct quality errors and processes, passionate in ensuring that customers receive a quality and correct product
• Safety Orientation - Follows safety policies and procedures, identifies and corrects safety hazards, encourages others to work safety
• Other duties as assigned.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Direct hire with benefits
• Salary range $130K

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply immediately!

Please include a clean copy of your resume and salary expectations.

Lighthouse Professional Services works with Fortune 500 clients all over the

East Coast offering staffing services for full-time and contract assignments.