Manufacturing Engineer

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

· People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination

· Manage staffing needs daily

· Payroll and time keeping

· Performance management

· Lead and manage safety activities

· Daily management of quality checks

· Daily team meetings

· Process Improvement initiatives and efforts

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

· Preferred Associate Degree or higher

· Required 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role

· Preferred 3 to 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment.

· Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power BI

· Preferred Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification

Principal Duties and Accountabilities (*Essential Functions)

· Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area

· Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinate teams (direct staff & support functions) and approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner for meeting Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee’s ideas and suggestions

· Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same

· Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline

· Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement. Advanced ability to apply various Lean Manufacturing tools

· Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving

LEADERSHIP AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

· Strong interpersonal, leadership, time management, planning, organizational, and analytical skills with proven results

· Integrity - Ensures both consistency of and compliance with company and departmental policies/procedures and performance standards. Implements operational plans to achieve designated objectives, established performance goals and quality standards.

· Ability to analyze procedures, routine reports, and correspondence with a strong attention to detail

· Identifies, reports and communicates to the Department Manager trends and/or irregularities. Takes a proactive approach to analyzing deficiencies and develops plans to correct. Recommends and implements solutions by involving team in problem solving to obtain the best results

· Excellent written and oral communication skills.

· Strong problem solving and driving for Results, Priority setting and decision making. Ability to make good, rapid decisions in a face paced environment.

· Foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with the operational stakeholders.

· Leads the team in creating an atmosphere that enables dialog and commitments that promote a continuous improvement mindset and has a favorable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the site through accuracy measurements.

· Self-awareness: knows personal strengths, weaknesses and limits. Gains insights from mistakes and is open to criticism.

· Able to have developmental conversations with direct reports.

· Demonstrates emotional intelligence.

Pay: $55,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person