Managing designated manufacturing processes in a fast-paced, high-volume, unionized manufacturing environment, ensuring conformance of processes and coordinating engineering, tooling, and quality changes.
Requirements
- minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with manufacturing processes, tooling, quality control methods and statistical process control (SPC)
- Ability to read, interpret, and understand engineering documents, technical standards and design specifications
Responsibilities
- Manage Process Sheets through Advanced Manufacturing Planning System (AMPS), propose modifications and guarantee process standardization across all shifts
- Analyze quality data, prioritize issues based on quality data and provide recommendations for improvement to the team
- Manage and lead part/process changes that affect the floor
- Audit and manage process parameters and identify optimal strategy based on CP-CPK results
- Root cause vehicle dimensional parameter issues to improve quality metrics
- Ensure non-conforming parts are identified and processed
- Collaborate with Team Leaders, Engineers and other roles in continuous improvement activities
Other
- Responsible for the direct supervision of bargaining unit employees
- Coordinate all safety, quality, delivery, cost and morale initiatives.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to team members (both bargaining unit and supervisory) regarding SPW techniques for problem solving and corrective action implementation.
- Ability to work any shift and overtime as required
- Excellent organization, written and oral communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with various levels of employees within all areas of the Plant from hourly represented employees to Senior Leadership as required
- Ability to build effective business relationships with plant leadership and customers
- Goal oriented self-starter with ability to lead teams
- Ability to coach/mentor/develop team members
- Must have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite
- Previous manufacturing supervisory experience
- Previous experience working in a union environment
- Experience in continuous improvement systems and lean manufacturing
- Familiar with World Class Manufacturing pillar methodology and implementation
