Superintendent / Maintenance

About the role

Support manages the Building Administration Guide the Continuous Improvements in the MP&L group of all locations. Support the building safety process with the groups Lead 4 associates and support operations team in the warehouse. Supporting CRS and OPS team to establish new tools to raise the maturity level of the group.

Responsibilities

• Introduce Lean tools into the NABU MP&L organization.
• Follows business unit policies, procedures, work instructions.
• Affords assistance with documentation and work instruction creation as required by management.
• Manages daily activities to ensure building safety activities are being followed, eliminating waste and reducing the risks of accidents.
• Gets to know all assigned finished goods parts, plant locations, production methodologies, related systems, procurement methods, lead-times, and internal warehouse handling procedures to maintain stability.
• Manages non-value-added Activity versus Value-added Activity.
• Affords assistance with monthly business unit reporting as required by management (such as meeting minutes, P.O. comparison reports to mentioned some).
• Cognizant of on-hand and in-transit finished goods inventory and departmental inventory plan.
• Provides instruction regarding part flow and material movement requests to responsible parties when required.
• Works with manufacturing plants to make sure they follow our production plans and make sure they ship schedule production and get delivery to the finished goods warehouse group.
• Formulates a contingency plan based on risk assessment to protect inventory and customer when needed to avoid a major delivery problem.
• Participates as an active member of any prototype / new model start-up activity on behalf of production planning business unit.
• Participates in all meetings and acts accordingly to meet department objectives.
• Updates, controls, and internally disseminates finished good design level change information.
• Participates in Design Engineer meetings to provide planning information for any design change.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or Technical Certificate Required, bachelor’s degree preferred, Business Management/Supply Chain Management or similar study preferred.
• Production and/or material planning and warehouse operations, sequential manufacturing.
• 8-10 years minimum experience in Lean manufacturing or warehousing scheduling, international business and import experience required including 2 -4 years in a supervisory capacity.
• Strong mathematical skills required.
• Proficient skills in MS Office (Excel, Access, Power Point, Word) required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Bilingual English/Spanish required.
• Knowledge of sequential manufacturing, scheduling, international business, import experience preferred.
• Knowledge of the effective manufacturing and distribution of finished goods, primarily on Automotive industry.