Magnolia - Business Technical Manager

Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people’s lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations. Discover more about Milliken’s curious minds and inspired solutions at Milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Business Technical Manager reports directly to the Location Manager at the Magnolia Finishing Plant.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

 

1.         Ensure that all management and production associates that report to them have received adequate training to perform their required duties.

2.         Ensure that all management and production associates that report to them have received the resources necessary to perform their required duties.

3.         Ensure that all management and production associates that report to them promote the continuous improvement of the safety process at Magnolia Finishing by ensuring that their associates support and participate in associate driven safety committee activities and that corrective actions assigned to their people by these committees are addressed in a timely manner.

4.         Assist the Location Manager in ensuring that all management and production associates that report to them clearly understand the overall plant goals and initiatives along with business goals and initiatives and that the associate understands the role that both they and their processes play in achieving those goals.

5.         Work with their associates to ensure sound processes are followed with regards to developing specifications and                    procedures for their processes within the established ISO, EMS and MPS framework.

6.         Ensure that their management associates are educated to use statistical techniques to identify and quantify variation in their process key measures.

7.         Assign specific projects to their associates that seek to eliminate special cause variation and reduce common cause variation. These Focused Improvement projects should be conducted using established MPS and DMAIC    methodologies to achieve maximum benefit.

 8.          Work with the Supply Chain function to understand the plants delivery position