Production Manager

Company Description

ITW Appliance Components serves all the major Appliance OEM in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico and their tier suppliers.  This global division manufactures mechanical, electromechanical, and electrical components and assemblies with a variety of manufacturing processes.  We have locations in the US, China, Mexico, the UK, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy.  ITW Industrial Components is a separate Business Unit within the ITW Appliance Division focused on industrial customers and applications.

The division drives profitability by leveraging its innovative solutions and application engineering.  In addition to ITW’s industry leading research and development capabilities, the division enhances our customers’ competitive advantage by:

• Maintaining advanced global engineering and manufacturing facilities.
• Identifying customer needs to provide continued added value solutions.
• Continually improving processes, materials, and designs to ensure every solution exceeds customer expectations while providing unparalleled value.

Job Description

Position Summary:

Directs, coordinates and manages either directly or through subordinates, all manufacturing operations including assembly, testing, and packaging.  Is accountable for manufacturing costs, quality and quantity of production, methods and tooling applications and effective use of production hours, skills, machines, equipment and facilities.  Participates in planning production schedule, staffing requirements and manufacturing controls as related to manufacturing operations.  Expedites scheduled production, investigates delays and initiates corrective action to assure economical production through efficient procedures.  Administers company rules, regulations and policies governing employment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety Leadership

• Drives a strong safety culture ensuring a safe and healthy workplace.
• Actively participates in a safety program that supports a positive safety culture.  Delivers superior EH&S performance.
• Supports incident investigations.  Leads incident investigations as needed.

Manufacturing Management / Planning

• Develops and delivers robust assembly and molding plans to ensure production operates at optimum levels with efficient utilization of people, equipment, and resources.
• Minimizes scrap and material losses; maximizes throughput yields.  Continuously seeks and implements cost and waste reduction initiatives.
• Participative member of the plant management team.

Injection Molding Management

• Support installation, start-up and validation of new injection molding lines and tools including coordination and execution of transfer plans, bank builds, etc.
• Establish and help execute corrective and preventive maintenance, start-up and shut-down procedures and work instructions for injection molding equipment and molds.
• Help coordinate tooling and equipment availability, repair and maintenance.  This includes:
  • Completion of assigned preventive maintenance tasks
  • Completion of assigned work orders in a timely manner
• Coordinate troubleshooting and adjustment of molding parameters to maintain quality and maximum product output.

Continuous Improvement / ITW Toolbox Implementation

• Champions the ITW toolbox and exhibits relentless focus on our 80 customers, products and processes.
• Supports operations by creating an 80/20 culture throughout the plant and in developing manufacturing standards, processes, and KPIs. Manages to those KPIs.
• Manages and coordinates the plant Layered Process Audit (LPA) and 5S programs.

Team Management & Development

• Manages and develops a direct team of 3 Team Leaders and a total team of production members over three shifts.
• Coaches through feedback, development planning, and performance management.
• Uses effective change management skills to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate change.
   

Qualifications

Position Skills and Experience Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s Degree or minimum of relevant work experience of 5 years’ in production management function required.
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in a highly automated/in