2nd Shift Production Manager

About the role

MRA is a nonprofit employer association founded in 1901, serving more than 4,000 employers and covering over one million employees. As one of the largest employer associations in the nation, we provide comprehensive HR services, information, education, and resources to help build successful workplaces and a powerful workforce. We partner directly with HR departments and leadership to hire talent.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise assigned Team Members to the parameters defined within the STMC Employee Handbook.
• Lead, support, and enforce company safety policies.
• Overlap coverage as required with management staff.
• Ensure concise execution plan exists for current and following shifts.
• Always act as an agent and ambassador for STMC, leading honorably by example.
• Interact with, coach, and support the entire team.
• Aid in the interviewing process of new hire candidates.
• Set the standard for performance expectations.
• Be fair, equitable, unbiased, and accessible to all team members.
• Directly manage and supervise employees in the Folding, Laser, Pemming, Spot Weld, Press Brake, Shakeout, Shipping, Tool Room, Turret, Weld departments at all locations to support published department work schedules.
• Organize and assign work to utilize available team skills, experience, knowledge of equipment and tooling to achieve the best advantages of overall productivity, quality, workmanship, lead-time, and value.
• Maintain acceptable operational costs with effective processing control to identified standards, and controlled person-hours including overtime.
• Provide direction, instruction, training, coaching, and mentoring to all team members as needed under your report.
• Identify, analyze, diagnose (if possible) machine malfunctions, and expedite needed repairs by notifying the maintenance manager and reporting events in maintenance work order software (Dude Solutions).
• Provide feedback information to support Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and Account Managers to assist with and/or implement ideas to enhance processing efficiency, simplification, methods or tooling, labor, scheduling, and cost reduction.
• Maintain and promote team adherence and conformance to company policies, rules, and regulations (Employee Handbook).
• Compose employee performance reviews, including goal creation with achievement milestones.
• Absorb, develop, and train as required for successful team clocking transactions.
• Embrace, encourage, and promote lean continuous improvement initiatives and activities.
• Schedule and assemble production meetings and huddles to review manufacturing requirements including schedules, quality expectations, productivity, and processing efficiency.
• Follow, promote, and perform all established Quality procedures and participate in improving team quality performance.
• Perform related duties as assigned and must be flexible to adjust as situation dictates (i.e.) assist with set-ups, inspection, etc. to keep production moving and eliminate down time. This requires a "whatever-it-takes" working attitude.
• Support and participate in the company's established Youth Apprenticeship (YA) program by following program guidelines, providing training, mentoring apprentices, and promoting safe work practices and workforce development.
• Daily Expectations and Responsibilities: Help the production teams to get off and running at the beginning of each shift. Ensure everyone has received and understands their work instructions, directions and where they are needed for positive contribution. Coordinate production plan with colleagues and distribute to each department including priority instruction and expectations. Prepare and plan for meetings, interviews, or events on the calendar. Review and correct inaccurate data from the previous day including timecards, and follow-up with team member coaching. Review and respond timely to emails to support your teammates. Handle personnel conflicts appropriately within your scope, utilize HR as needed. Spend frequent time on the floor interacting, engaging, supporting, coaching, and mentoring your team. Participate in employment candidate interviews as required. Observe, assess, and pursue opportunities to improve processing efficiencies. Monitor "Live Schedule," and various other daily reports to effectively react to fluid schedule activity. Create a scripted plan for hand-off with direction to support second shift production. Expectations to include contingency considerations.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of fabrication techniques, equipment and tooling applications, raw materials, and utilization of measuring instruments.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing applications and concepts.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing Quality Systems, Processes, Standards and Quality Assurance Principles.
• Strong supervisory, leadership and team building skills.
• Proficiency in PC software applications (M1, MS Office, etc.).
• Efficient keyboard skills to effectively type 40 WPM.
• Pursuit of professional training is recommended.
• Read and interpret documents such as policies & procedures, drawings, routings, P.O.’s, Communicate effectively with all employees within the organization, promote positive two-way dialog.

Qualifications

• Typically requires education equivalent to an associate degree in Supervisory or Management concepts, business, or technical subjects together with 8+ years’ hands-on supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The employee works in a factory environment and is occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions and chemicals.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is loud.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is loud.