Department Manager, Molding

Responsibilities

• Mets performance objectives for safety, productivity, machine operational availability, change over time, scrap, and delivery
• Manages proper staffing and machine loading
• Ensures proper training of all employees and mentors supervisors and other key personnel to maintain a competent workforce
• Fosters team cohesiveness, morale, and motivation and a culture of excellence by acting as a hands-on accessible leader who facilitates collaboration and cooperation across all shifts
• Sets a proper safety example, encourages a safety mindset and awareness, ensures corporate and industry standard safety practices are followed, and ensures 5S (cleanliness) is maintained
• Ensures machines and auxiliary equipment are maintained
• Collaborates with the plant molding engineers, and tooling and maintenance departments on continuous improvement to reduce scrap, reduce cycle times, improve machine operational availability, and improve productivity
• Collaborates with the plant lean manufacturing team on inventory levels and lean manufacturing tools and practices with the focus of eliminating waste
• Supports new launches with samples, optimizing processes, end of arm tooling, internal packaging, and justifying new equipment
• Adheres to TS16949 standards and procedures

Qualifications

• College engineering degree
• Five years experience as an engineer in a molding
• Two years supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment
• Outstanding leadership, team building, coaching and decision making abilities
• Independent thinking with strong analytical and problem skills is essential
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally both verbally and in writing at all levels in the organization
• Pristine organizational and planning abilities that produce results through execution
• Firm, fair and consistent approach to company policy and employee management
• High energy level and ability to lead and motivate others
• Current comprehensive technical and hands on knowledge of scientific injection molding process, molds, robotics and robotic programming, end of arm tooling, auxiliary equipment, and central material handling systems
• PLC knowledge and understanding of specifications for infrastructure required to support a molding department (process and chilled water, electrical, compressed air, material handling system) is preferred
• Experience with Wittmann robots, Krauss Maffei and Van Dorn molding machines is preferred