Job Description

Position Summary:
Plans, directs, and coordinates all manufacturing/production activities for the facility; expedites the flow of materials; serves as Safety, Quality and Lean Champion for the facility; assists in coordinating all peripheral activities of the support staff to ensure delivery of quality products within prescribed time frame and margin parameters.

Essential Job Functions:

Operations Management
- Reviews sales orders and customer specifications to create a production schedule maximizing the use of resources (Materials, Manpower, Machines) to determine delivery time frames, level of effort required, procedures for accomplishing, and by advocating the allotment of available resources to meet the customer's needs.
- Hires, trains and supervises a staff in support of manufacturing initiatives.

Scheduling/Demand
- Analyzes Open Sales Orders, Production Priority Reports (PPR's) and other information to determine demand;
- Ensures proper preparation of production and shipping schedules;
- Generates critical documentation controlling the flow of materials, including the Pick List & Work Order Travelers, Production Drawings/Specs; Print Labels and/or Tags.

Materials
- Calculates and determines the amount of material required to complete job orders;
- Orders materials; negotiates POs with suppliers;

Inventory
- Monitors/controls movement of material in the ERP system and in customer portals;
- Manage, review and report monthly cycle counts and physical inventories.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree is required and/or ten to fifteen years related experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Able to establish identity and US work authorized.
- Must be able to lead a diverse workforce of 25+ employees.
- Must have prior supervisory/management experience and be familiar with employment laws and processes.
- Ability to read and interpret documents; write reports and business correspondence; ability to present information and respond to questions.
- Must be organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented individual with the ability to multi-task and follow instructions.
- Bi-lingual a plus.
- Working knowledge of personal computers and familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook; Internet and the ability to navigate to find information.
- Ability to apply mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, etc. to practical situations.