Plant Operations Manager

Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Lead a team of 140+ production employees in the manufacturing of goods in the Houston plant. Maintain a safe work environment while leading the team to deliver a high-quality product, on time, with best in industry costs! This is a 24/7 operation.

The Houston plant has safety, quality, materials, maintenance, and HR supporting functions. It is the responsibility of these functions to develop & improve processes that support a more optimal production process. It is the responsibility of the production/operations team to lead people and execute the processes defined by the supporting functions and to deliver on the established metrics.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Directly Reports to: Plant Manager

Direct Reports: 2nd Shift Production Superintendent & Production Supervisors (6)

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership (50% of time):

• •Building relationships
• •Communicating and aligning team to vision
• •Setting goals and objectives & regular performance management
• •Career/personal development of team
• •Recognition/appreciation
• •Disciplinary action
• •Weekly 1 on 1’s
• •Develop supervisors into excellent leaders: so they do all the things above and spend most of their time on people as well

Responsibilities/Duties:

People

• •Promote a culture of trust, integrity, care within the plant
• •Resource planning: Set appropriate staffing levels and coordinate with HR to fill/maintain positions
• •Responsible for turnover metric within production team

Safety

• •Create & maintain a safe work environment
• •Comply with environmental standards set by the safety team

Quality

• •Ensure products meet quality standards defined by quality department
• •ASTM/Industry standards
• •Process CTQs

Oversee all production processes

• •Monitor production to resolve issues – hold supporting functions accountable to action when needed
• •Develop, implement, and lead daily operating rhythms (MDI). Ensure Daily meetings between supervisors and each department, daily cross functional shift meetings, support at plant staff meetings.

Participate in plant strategy development – establish a team, structure, processes that will support plant/business metrics

• •Participate in annual budget process
• •Own productivity & OT metrics
• •Own adherence to schedule metrics
• •Own production consumables & supplies budget
• •Report/Present to upper management

Requirements

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• •Deep knowledge of production management
• •Previous experience managing teams of 100 or more
• •Understanding of quality standards and health & safety regulations
• •Knowledge of performance evaluation and budgeting concepts
• •Experience in reporting on key production metrics
• •Proficiency in MS Office
• •Strong people skills with an outgoing, friendly, and positive attitude
• •Detail-oriented with excellent organizational, management and leadership skills
• •Able to oversee multiple competing tasks and priorities and perform quality work efficiently with minimal supervision
• •Outstanding communication ability
• •Strong decision-making skills and a data/results-driven approach; attention to detail

REQUIRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

• •Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering
• •Minimum 6 years’ experience in production, manufacturing operations, or other related fields
• •Knowledge of production tools and equipment
• •Knowledge of principles, concepts, theories, and practices of area of responsibility, (Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma)
• •Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred