Manager Melt Shop

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead Melt Shop Foreman, Remelt Foreman and all supervisory and support staff and fulfill resources as necessary.
• Manage, lead and motivate, supervisors and employees in your area of responsibility.
• Develop and work to budgets to achieve cost management goals and initiate or participate in cost reduction and/or profit improvement programs.
• Develop short-term & long-term goals, for the Production, Safety, Quality and Continuous Improvement success of the Melt Shop, Remelt and Grinding areas.
• Ensure compliance with Safety & Health, Environmental and Quality Policies.
• Ensure adherence to standardized processes and practices, including aerospace manufacturing requirements.
• Plan and coordinate all operations throughout the melt shop including raw materials receipt, maintenance and refractory needs.
• Work closely with purchasing to balance cost and quality for procured raw materials and consumables, including scrap, electrodes and refractory.
• Control and improve process consistency, productivity, cost and equipment effectiveness.
• Establish and monitor adherence to department budget on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
• Make recommendations to plants’ Capital Expenditure plan and lead CapEx projects as required.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by leading or supporting CI projects.
• Lead project to increase productivity by # of heats/day by maximizing asset utilization.
• Achieve production standards, including quality, yields, productivity.
• Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, changes, and policies.
• Encourage positive communication.
• Enforce all company policies, rules and regulations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to safety by reducing area record-able rate through observations and identification and robust corrective actions of injury free events and near miss incidents.
• Ability to demonstrate Strong Interpersonal, Critical Thinking, Leadership and Negotiation skills.
• Leverage Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma knowledge including statistical analysis.
• General knowledge of scrap alloys and alloyed steel.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education and Experience Required

• Previous Melt Experience Required.
• Experience in alloyed steels and Remelting operations (ESR and VAR) required.
• 7+ years of increasing responsibilities including supervisory experience within a unionized industrial manufacturing organization.
• 5+ years’ experience leading both hourly and salaried employees.
• Experience with EAF and AOD operations required.
• Ability and desire to manage a 24/7 manufacturing operation.
• Raw material management, refractory and/or charge mix creation experience desired.
• Demonstrated leadership in continuous improvement activities and 5S.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field preferred.

Physical and Other Requirements

• Ability to safely move around a heavy industrial plant environment up to 12 hours per day.