Business Unit Manager

Job Responsibilities

Ensures that assigned plant operations demonstrate world-class performance.
Provides strategic leadership, management, and technical expertise to the Paint Department.
Manages financial aspects of operations of Department and understands the effect on financial performance.
Develops, reviews, and maintains budgets and expenses for department.
Utilizes participative management, lean manufacturing philosophies and techniques; leads, manages, and provides technical expertise/work direction to manufacturing teams.
Works with other areas to establish and maintain stable production schedules, labor requirements, material flow, etc.
Directs, implements, and maintains operational-level strategies and objectives and monitors performance against plan.
Manages, monitors, and controls material, labor, and overhead costs in respective area.
Maintains appropriate level of staff support necessary to meet business goals and objectives.
Must reduce the cost of daily operations by continually improving processes and eliminating waste.
Champions projects for improvements in process and product innovations, customer relations, and functional capabilities based on lean manufacturing techniques.
Must reduce the cost of daily operations by continually improving processes and eliminating waste.
Works with new product development to launch programs into production.

Key Functions & Responsibilities

Directs and coordinates all activities within the Factory Focus area to execute a production plan that ensures operations meet quality, cost, delivery, and safety goals.
Manages financial aspects of operations and understands the effect on financial performance.
Coordinates and participates in continuous improvement processes including, but not limited to, troubleshooting and problem solving for immediate production problems, ensuring quality of Product, monitoring down time and leading efforts to improve quality and reduce costs.
Generates all necessary deviations or process changes in relation to the job.
May research and recommend new systems.
Provides strategic leadership and technical expertise to the organization.
Initiates and recommends purchase of new equipment.
Maintains conformance to budget limitations.
Effectively balances needs of production with new product introduction.
Coordinates manufacturing, product development and procurement resources to assure that labor, material and support services needs are known and attained sufficient to execute the sales plan.
Plans, develops, directs, implements, and maintains plant strategies and objectives.
Develops moderate to long-term goals and translates them into short-term plans.
Researches and recommends new processes, systems, policies, and procedures to pursue in the future.
Champions the introduction of improved business/manufacturing methods while driving continuous improvement and waste elimination activities within focus team.
Must reduce cost of daily operations.
Develops and manages cross-functional operations leadership teams to meet business objectives.
Monitors productivity of groups and individuals recommends changes where desirable.
Provides leadership and support to staff and assists in employees’ skill development.
Develops a flexible team-based organization focused on goals and objectives.
Maintains compliance with all organizations policies, standards and practices.
Performs project work and other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.
Prepares and distributes appropriate communication as necessary.
Ensures that facilities are in full compliance with all safety regulations.
Disposes of waste paint solids to satellite accumulation area. Occasionally transports hazardous waste from satellite accumulation to 90-day accumulation area.

Qualifications

Must possess a well-developed and proven leadership style with the ability to mentor, coach, counsel and train toward long-term departmental and organizational goals while working in a team environment.
Demonstrated employee relationship and management skills to support, develop, and lead a cohesive, team.
Must carry out duties ethically and in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws.
Demonstrated strong communication skills. The ability to effectively communicate to groups of diverse educational background to assure desired actions and outcomes are understood. The ability to effectively present information and responds to questions from technical and management groups when necessary.
Demonstrated project and program management skills and proven financial capabilities to maintain quality, cost, and timing of programs.
Ability to apply and interpret basic statistical techniques.
Strong analytical and disciplined problem-solving skills.
Ability to use deductive reasoning and keep several activities moving forward simultaneously.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree minimum, preferably in a manufacturing or engineering related field or equivalent experience.
Successful experience 3 -5 years in manufacturing leadership.