Operations Area Leader

 

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

 

The Complex Leader is accountable for providing support for our 24/7 manufacturing operation and associated processes.  This person must have a strong sense of personal commitment towards the business and our customers; an ability to foster teamwork throughout the organization; communicate effectively with all levels ranging from primary workforce to plant leadership. The Complex Leader must build a culture of trust, respect, and accountability in a Union environment.  In addition, the individual in this position helps to implement organizational strategies, standards and practices enrolling employees to achieve the Plant’s business strategy and deliver results.

 

Reports to:  Operations Leader

 

Span of Control:  25 primary employees, 4 salaried employees

 

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Driving a Strong Safety Culture

• Ensuring a safe, clean, and environmentally compliant work environment and building a culture where safety is a priority
• Leading and supporting safety initiatives, proactive conversations around safety, and processes to drive towards zero recordable injuries
• Training and developing employees to safely perform their jobs
• Effectively communicating Owens Corning’s stand on safety throughout the department to ensure employees believe in and behave in a manner that supports our stand that all accidents are preventable, safety is everyone’s responsibility, and that working safely is a condition of employment at Owens Corning

 

Executing Total Production Maintenance (TPM) Strategy and Managing Operations

• Lead operations and processes for respective assets/area of responsibility within the plant 
• Provide direct supervision to employees in area of responsibility. Coach and provide clear direction to effectively manage operations.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineers (Line, Binder, & Furnace) to identify and drive continuous improvement efforts through standardized work to improve cost, grow year-over-year productivity and reduce quality related issues for our customers
• Ensure effective deployment of employee/labor relations practices (building strong partnership)
• Ensure the process and quality systems are utilized to provide a consistent product that meets manufacturing specifications
• Operate with zero environmental non-conformities to applicable company, government, and regulatory policies
• Proactively analyzes and manages all relative operations performance metrics making improvements to efficiencies, quality, and cost
• Set clear and measurable performance expectations, in line with plant goals; communicating and ensuring results are achieved for self and direct reports
• Utilizing data driven decision-making processes
• Facilitating process improvements through people deployment, productivity enhancements, high performance work teams and being a model for change
• Leading a lean culture environment through six sigma processes and TPM toolsets
• Driving progress in area of responsibility through engagement of operators in TPM activities, impacting overall TPM expansion area progress to meet plant goals
• Living the values and vision of the Company; establish an engaged workforce characterized by mutual trust, open communications, teamwork, and recognition
• Making operational decisions or recommendations that could affect the financial, employee, or public relations posture of the organization
• Set area objectives and priorities in support of the Plant’s strategy and vision, and for developing teams to deliver results in support of these objectives and priorities, leaving daily tactical direction to Production employees
• Assign and coordinate work in a manufacturing department to include supervising first line leaders
• Build an inclusive environment to drive sustainable operations

 

Knowing Our Customers

• Partner with peers, manufacturing engineers, process engineers, etc.  to clearly understand process and customer expectations in order to meet/exceed customer expectations
• Assists in driving to zero defects or failures to customer
• Ensuring operational procedures exist and