Operations Manager - Tishma (Relocate to IL)

Location

Schaumburg, IL | United States

Job description

Company Overview

Intertape Polymer Group (IPG) is a dynamic multinational organization that prides itself on its corporate culture of a family atmosphere that meets high achieving company performance. We are known for our competitive salaries and benefits packages and our emphasis on putting people first. Founded in 1982, and now grown to $1.5B in sales worldwide, IPG focuses on growth through organic and strategic means. Our diversified product lines support our mission to be the world leader in packaging and protective solutions. Come join the IPG family today! Find out more at our website.

*This candidate would need to relocate to the Schaumburg, IL area. A relocation package can be offered to the right candidate. **

Position Purpose: Drive performance through the development of short and long-term department goals and standards for safety, ensuring that industry standards are met or exceeded, continuous improvement, quality, cost reduction, efficient utilization of resources and staff, and production efficiency.

Principle Accountabilities

1. Safety and Environmental Compliance. Ensure a safe work environment for all employees; establish, manage, and monitor standards, processes, communications, training, and systems as they relate to Environmental and Safety.
2. Sets and maintains high safety standards ensuring proper accountabilities and implementing processes to eliminate unsafe work practices. Work in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations and the Company Health and Safety Roles and Responsibilities.
3. Manage all site safety activities, trainings, and programs.
4. Lead risk assessment and conduct internal audits for anticipating, identifying, evaluating, and eliminating hazards. This will include internal audits such as safety observations and monthly meetings as well as the development of a floor monitoring or coaching system.
5. Collaborate with other departments to ensure the attainment of production schedules, quality goals and safety objectives are met within deadlines given.
6. Manages all production activities performed by all production personnel while maintaining a high degree of visibility and access to staff throughout shift.
7. Allocate the appropriate resources to each project, assuring timelines will be met.
8. Continuously evaluates manufacturing operations to determine improvements through effective metrics, capital, personnel, and operational standards.
9. Partner with Project Management and Engineering to thoroughly understand scope of projects, and necessary resources.
10. Build & maintain productive employee relationships, driving employee satisfaction. Provide direction, training & development as needed.
11. Manage performance, provide coaching, counseling, or discipline as needed for direct reports. Work with HR to address employee concerns & issues.
12. Identifies and corrects problems and inefficiencies in process, materials, equipment, or skills.
13. Act as change agent to drive changes across organization, provide hands-on leadership and mentorship to improve overall plant performance.
14. Drive a continuous improvement culture by involving employees in problem solving and decision making as well as recognizing them for exceptional work.
15. Develop and implement new business strategies for creating or improving processes and procedures to improve plant
16. Responsible for appropriate staff levels to meet requirements of production schedule . Lead the hiring, onboarding, and training of production personnel.
17. Enable teamwork and collaboration through information sharing meetings with all
18. Analyze and report on the plant's daily, monthly, and annual key performance indicators and industry
19. Develop and implement strategies around improving the financial performance of the
20. Ensure that all employees adhere to company policies and
21. Active member of the Tishma leadership team - influencing, collaborating with other functional leaders in the
22. Related tasks as requested by

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in capital equipment manufacturing for the packaging industry highly
• 10+ years of manufacturing strongly
• 5+ years of people management preferred.
• 5+ years in Manufacturing Engineering, required.
• 5 + years of Operations experience, required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field preferred.
• Must-Have a strong understanding of automation, packaging machinery, or machine building.
• Strong understanding of Procurement/Supply Chain.
• Experience managing and running safety program.
• Proven ability to modify, create and establish processes and structure to drive continuous
• Knowledge of current OSHA regulations and all federal, state, and local workplace safety laws
• Ability to develop and conduct trainings.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills

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