Production Facilitator

To implement, supervise, and manage press operations to ensure alignment of policies, training, responsibilities, forecasting, processes, and on-time delivery at the lowest cost through continuous improvement while meeting plant and corporation objectives and financial performance. Oversee all press operations in the facility.

Essential Functions and Key Accountabilities

• Enforce and direct subordinates to follow all safety procedures to achieve plant goal of zero accidents.
• Implement and supervise manufacturing policies and training that facilitate the highest quality product with on-time delivery at the lowest cost through continuous improvement activities.
• Oversee daily/monthly production activities; responsible for achieving production targets and reporting issues to area manager, requiring adjustments in client, processes, responsibilities, and disciplinary actions.
• Assist area manager in development of the annual profit plan: defining departmental budgets, forecasting, direct labor, identifying equipment requirements, establishing quality goals, and outlining continuous improvement programs.
• Provide input and support to new product plans/programs.
• Assist area manager to enhance business objectives and financial performance of the Plant, Division, and Corporation.
• Additional responsibilities as required — position subject to change as department needs change.

Safety

• Proactively improve safety in the plant to achieve plant goal of zero accidents.
• Facilitate and develop topics for communication at daily safety meetings.
• Champion timely resolution of all safety concerns and/or near misses.
• Work with maintenance to ensure all equipment has proper preventive maintenance and is safe to operate.
• Enforce all area and plant safety procedures.

Quality

• Work closely with the quality area to create and maintain systems that ensure quality products.
• Support team mates in consistently exceeding customer expectations, maximizing production and quality while minimizing downtime and scrap.
• Communicate all potential quality concerns.
• Enforce all area and plant quality procedures.
• Maintain all customer and TS requirements.

Housekeeping

• Maintain the appearance of a World Class facility.
• Actively support full implementation of the 5S initiatives.

Continuous Improvement / Training

• Actively encourage participation in idea program by effectively resolving and implementing team mate ideas.
• Identify training opportunities to develop and maintain a highly motivated and capable team.
• Lead efforts to reduce cost and improve efficiency to meet planned/plant objectives.

Academic & Experience Required

• Associate's degree or equivalent experience/skills minimally required for competent performance.
• Participation in a significant role on the MOS, either deploying a practice, training in a tool or methodology, leading problem solving, or other applied leadership experience.

Technical Skills

• Proficient computer skills / Microsoft suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Technical knowledge of Procedures, Products, Planning, Quality, Safety, and Processes.
• Product knowledge with component identification.
• Quality focus.
• Experience with employee involvement teams.
• Lean manufacturing.
• Quality Management Systems.
• Human Development Management.
• Cross-functional leadership.
• Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Management Fundamentals.
• Core Manufacturing Processes (Stamping, Assembly, Painting, Welding, Hydroforming).
• Logistics.

Soft Skills / Success Factors / Leadership & Competencies

• Integrity and Trust
• Compassion
• Perseverance
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Conflict Management
• Planning
• Problem Solving
• Organizational Agility
• Building Effective Teams
• Developing direct reports and others

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, and feel. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to visually focus.