Foundry Plant Manager

Responsibilities

The Foundry Plant Manager will report directly to the Vice President of Operations. Key functions of this role include but are not limited to: 

• Ensures a culture is in place that puts the safety and welfare of our employees ahead of all other goals.
• Sets a high standard for ethics and compliance, ensuring business processes adhere to our business conduct policies and procedures.  
• Executes plans for quality and process excellence that ensures consistent quality assurance and process excellence procedures, controls, and feedback.
• Establish and maintain a high-quality work force through recruiting, hiring, training, evaluating, and ensuring accountability to enable the Samuel culture.
• Lead the implementation of tactics to achieve improvement in on-time delivery, yield improvement, scrap reduction, and productivity.
• Monitor KPIs to ensure that safety, quality, productivity, and costs metrics are being met, put action plan in place when metrics are not met.
• Hands On and floor presence to support front line supervisors and leads. 
• Leads team to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual performance goals.
• Drive and support employees training programs and job certifications across production teams.
• Works with managers across all functional lines to accomplish organizational objectives.
• Exhibits and promotes behaviors on the plant floor that leads to an engaged work force.
• Deploy and lead team-based problem-solving groups using modern methods (DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Brainstorming, etc.) to eliminate productivity and quality issues. 
• Ensure that all employees know and adhere to the Sierra Aluminum policy and requirements. 
• Other duties as required.

Education 

• Bachelors of Science degree from an accredited institution in Engineering,  Business or related field or 5-10 years equivalent experience on the role.

Qualifications

• Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Disciplined Execution — Job requires holding the Operations team accountable through daily execution to the plan. When required, he/she will need to be able to dive into details to ensure operational success.
• Strong financial literacy.
• Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Customer Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• 5 years minimum experience in plant operational management and/or an equivalent large segment of a business. 

Working Conditions

• This position works in a manufacturing environment. 
• Work is performed in a manufacturing environment in all weather conditions.
• Lift up to 25 lbs. regularly, up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 75 lbs. occasionally
• Bend, twist, climb, squat, kneel throughout shift Able to work in extreme heat or cold conditions.