Description:
Position Overview: Responsible for driving efficiency and effectiveness in the daily operations and delivery of their assigned area by providing adequate resources, on-going work direction, and problem-solving for their team. These actions ensure that Operational KPI’s and business goals are achieved in accordance with Company policies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for meeting operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and cost, as well as other key business metrics within their influence.
- Leads functional resources within the assigned value stream, including manufacturing engineering, product engineering, material handling, and quality.
- Interprets company policies and enforces safety regulations.
- Analyzes production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignments, making schedule adjustments as needed.
- Plans daily operations, optimizes the utilization of skills, available work hours, material, and workflow to ensure timely production within acceptable quality standards.
- Ensures personnel are performing their jobs within the written guidelines of the Work Instructions and adhering to ISO policy and standards
- Responsible for identifying and driving productivity and efficiency improvements in partnership with their value stream employees and the broader operations group.
- Leads the development of current and future state value stream maps and continuous improvement plans, as well as the implementation of those plans across the value stream.
- Coaches, trains and develops employees in their value stream in order to enhance employee performance and longer-term career growth.
- Assists team members in analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving operational challenges.
- Develops and communicates performance-based metrics and organizational vision for their value stream.
- Motivates and recognizes exceptional individual and team performance, while properly managing employee performance and/or conduct issues.
- Partners and collaborates with other members of plant leadership and cross-plant leadership on best practice sharing and broader business unit/enterprise initiatives. For example, partners with Product Management to support New Product Development launches.
- Manages employee productivity and attendance records in partnership with Human Resources and other functions.
- Handle and/or assist in the settlement of employee issues. Develop and maintain positive employee relations and ensure open lines of communication with associates. Creates and drives culture to create a positive environment.
- Understands and upholds Columbus McKinnon’s policies and procedures in daily operations.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
- Associates degree or, bachelor's degree preferred.?
- A minimum of three years of manufacturing based supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated experience in driving efficiency improvements.?
- Proven leadership skills in motivating team members to perform at their highest levels.?
- Ability to analyze data and make timely decisions.?
- Highly accountable behavior with solid personal responsibility.?
