Automotive Manufacturing Plant Manager
Röchling Automotive USA LLP
Location
Akron, OH | United States
Job description
Where we need you
- Direct single-site manufacturing operations through a team of functional managers and supervisors. Ensure increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of manpower, materials and machines. Ultimately responsible for 100+ employees (multi-shifts).
- Manage policy deployment in the areas of Lean Manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls and plant performance measures.
- Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
- Provide leadership for problem resolution to facilitate fast improvements and improved working relationships.
- Manage material requirements to increase inventory turns and reduce levels on hand.
- Ensure compliance with standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, OSHA, safety, and complete and on-time delivery at the lowest possible cost.
- Balance work cell capacity/loading across the plant.
- Determine operations headcount needs and ensures compliance with Company policies.
- Identify, communicate and drive implementation of capital investments and improvement projects.
- Manage compliance with state and federal regulations.
- Daily supervision of a team of managers, supervisors and administrative personnel.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
How to convince us
- Minimum 5+ years general manager or project manager experience in high precision, high-tech and low tolerance manufacturing environments.
- Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
- Technical skills in materials and inventory management, production scheduling, and preventive maintenance.
- Leadership: A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
- Planning: Ability to perform short and long range planning.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent project and program management skills.
- Quality orientation.
- Computer proficient.
- Demonstrated abilities leading manufacturing plant turn around
- Balanced leadership style
- Demonstrated ability to drive positive KPI movement
- Ability to coach and mentor
- Demonstrated ability to recognize and drive business priorities
- Ability to motivate the entire team
- Demonstrate ability to lead by example, create and measure value
- Experience leading in a matrix organization
- Demonstrate abilities to think and drive "out of box" thinking/actions
- Confident communicator, solid integrity, trust worthy, ethical track record voiced by References
- Demonstrated ability to lead in all plant disciplines; MPL, Quality, Ops, Eng, HR, etc...
- Career minded leader with a personal growth plan
- Track record of personal accountability
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and relate to all levels of the organization from front line Associate to Exec team.
- Demonstrated track record in Lean and Toyota Production Systems Deployment
What we offer
- Primary Care Wellness Center onsite for all employees - AT NO COST (All spouses who carry Röchling health benefits have free access too)
- Röchling Wellness Program sponsoring run/walk programs throughout the year
- Wellness Credits
- Employee Discounts at Verizon, BMW, Ford, GM and more
- Continuous Improvement Program & Safety Awards
- Employee Referral Program
- Family Outings
Interested in joining our team? Please send your resume for consideration.
In the Automotive division, you will shape the mobility of tomorrow. System solutions in the areas of Battery Solutions, Structural Lightweight, Aerodynamics and Propulsion. This means: We protect the environment while also improving the driving experience of millions of vehicles.
The Röchling Group has been shaping industry. Worldwide. For more than 200 years. We transform the lives of people every day with our customized plastics: they reduce the weight of cars, make medication packaging more secure and improve industrial applications. Our workforce of 11,737 people is located in the places where our customers are – in 92 locations in 25 countries.
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