Team Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Manage team to ensure key objectives are obtained in all business areas including safety, housekeeping, human resource development, quality, customer service, asset management, cost and internal controls.
• Create an environment that is safe, healthy, challenging, fosters teamwork, a willingness to participate, and continuous improvement.
• Provide direction and leadership for the operations, process, and maintenance functions to ensure continuous improvement in machine operation and reliability, product quality, cost, customer service, and scrap.
• Set objectives and strategies to accomplish them.
• Evaluate employees' performance to determine training needs and development opportunities.
• Recruit and develop high-quality personnel to ensure effective and continuous operations within the framework of plant objectives and high-performance team philosophies.
• Provide leadership to ensure the organization attracts, develops, and retains the best people and fosters an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results.
• Interact with operational resources to maintain open free-flowing communication while driving data-based, logical decision making.
• Interface with inter-departmental personnel and business teams to build positive, constructive relationships while meeting internal and external customer expectations.
• Manage the execution of manufacturing operations to achieve conformance to plan while adhering to schedules and quality standards.
• Forecast capacity and manage activity to support customer service delivery.
• Coordinate with operations planning to determine the best approach for scheduling to maximize efficiency.
• Define, track, and communicate performance to targets/KPI’s. Implement corrective action plans when not meeting standards.
• Define, justify, manage, and implement projects within the scope of the role that help deliver better than current performance.
• Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results.
• Support the facility’s EHS policy; comply with all local EHS legislation and codes; identify, report, investigate, and address any EHS substandard acts and/or conditions; and drive the setting of EHS objectives and evaluate the effectiveness of the facility’s EHS Management System.
• Support the facility’s QMS policy and compliance by contributing to the development, implementation, and continual improvement of the effectiveness of the Quality Management System.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or minimum 10 years’ experience in an operational leadership capacity in a manufacturing environment.
• Statistical and/or lean manufacturing process training.
• Broad technical knowledge and significant experience in operations, maintenance, and/or engineering, and a working knowledge of multifunctional issues.
• Experience driving improvements through engaged development of operational standards, processes, and systems.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and team building skills.