Building Manager / Supervisor-Weld Shop (Fort Wayne, IN)

Duties

• Supervises and coordinates activities of production employees directly or through Team-leaders.
• Ensures that Team boards are updated daily with effective and clear measures of communication.
• Performs discipline of staff as necessary by fully understanding and properly implementing company handbook policies re: attendance and categories of conduct.
• Performs coaching of staff by ensuring that there is a development plan for every person, that training checklists are applied to employee MYOCI accounts, and that training is tracked and verified in a timely manner.
• Evaluates performance of direct reports in timely 90 -Day and annual reviews. Establishes and tracks measurable goals for staff.
• Creates and tracks development and cross-training plans for direct reports.
• Covers production activities with Sales: by monitoring and informing Sales team of reduced schedules due to scrap.
• Covers production activities with Engineering: by pursuing inquiries related to the process to correctly produce parts and tracking continuous improvement ideas of staff.
• Covers production activities with Quality: by issuing hold-tags, clarifying prints and inspection forms as needed.
• Leads and participates in a 5S project/s annually (5S = Sort, Set In order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain).
• Reviews and communicates capacity of work centers to team members thru Team Boards to ensure there is a plan to meet customer requirements. Understands hour demand for each resource and how to staff areas accordingly.
• Covers production activities to improve on-time delivery of product by utilizing Andon lights to visually determine and demonstrate jobs staged, keeping operators informed on the priority of work and the number of jobs/hours to complete each shift.
• Promotes the use of continuous improvement activities to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Profitability metrics. Coaches team members on creation of ideas and helps timely completion of them.
• Utilizes Vantage software to investigate and solve issues with material and/or staging shortages at work centers.
• Covers production activities with Purchasing: by tracking shortages, past due POs, and facilitating employee requests/MROs
• Covers production activities with Maintenance: by reviewing stats of down machines, following up on open maintenance requests, and gathering updates on preventative maintenance.
• Revises production schedules and priorities as a result of equipment failures or operating problems. Ensures that top 25% of parts have redundant machines and processes to be reviewed during the monthly production meetings.
• Directs production personnel in the resolution of issues or problems affecting operations. Examples include, but are not necessarily limited to: Safety, Routers, Scrap, Quality, Maintenance, Training, Vacation, Sick Time, and Attendance.
• Led and participated in Lean Projects to eliminate the 8 wastes of manufacturing using time studies to evaluate direct and indirect activities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma and six to nine years metal fabrication experience and/or training or an equivalent combination of education or experience are required.
• Working knowledge of punching, laser cutting, plasma-cutting, burning, forming, welding, machining, and painting.
• Bachelor's or Associate degree preferred.
• Computer literacy is required, may receive instruction on-the-job.
• Bachelor's or Associate degree preferred.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• 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.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.