Value Stream Manager

Summary Description

Captures the essence of the role within the manufacturing and operations team, focusing on optimizing resource use, minimizing costs, and maintaining quality standards.

Essential Responsibilities

• Ensures the desired quantities and quality of products are manufactured on schedule in a safe manner at minimum cost.
• Anticipates manufacturing difficulties and plans alternate options.
• Demonstrates leadership in the assigned group of processes.
• Develops standard work.
• Maintain active communication with department leaders in sales, engineering, quality, maintenance, and shipping.
• Monitor the value stream of products and analyze the inbound and outbound logistics of parts and finished products.
• Lead events using continuous improvement methods to increase productivity.
• Review daily production schedule and take appropriate action to meet shipping schedules.
• Ensure work produced is performed in a safe and productive manner.
• Be a champion of safety.
• Complete safety kaizens and address concerns immediately.
• Supervise and coach work force both hourly and salary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Business / other applicable field, or 10+ years relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in supervisory role, preferably in manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle transactions/Ops systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of machine shop experience.
• Working knowledge of Lean systems and tools.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Leadership/mentoring skills and prior supervisor experience desired.
• Listen and communicate effectively with production and office employees.
• Must be able to draw conclusions and make fair judgment on employee issues.
• High level of customer focus and ability to maintain a positive attitude at all times.
• Ability to maintain a professional demeanor at all times with customers and coworkers.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment. The employee may occasionally work near moving mechanical parts while on shop floor.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to Sit, stand, walk, talk, write, lift, work with hands both in an office and shop floor environment.

Work Arrangement

This position is based in the Knappco facility in Hamilton, OH.

Benefits

• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Health savings account, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Company paid short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Company paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Suppportive employee and dependent life insurance.
• Optional accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance.
• Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Paid time off, including 11 paid holidays per calendar year, paid vacation days beginning at 120 hours annually, 24 paid sick leave hours annually or as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, business travel services.
• Employee discounts.
• An employee assistance program that includes company paid counseling sessions and legal services.