Assistant Plant Manager

Company Description

ITW (NYSE: ITW) is a Fortune 200 global multi-industrial manufacturing leader with revenues totaling $14.1 billion in 2019. The company’s seven industry-leading segments leverage the unique ITW Business Model to drive solid growth with best-in-class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer-focused solutions are required. ITW’s approximately 45,000 dedicated colleagues around the world thrive in the company’s decentralized and entrepreneurial culture. www.itw.com. 

Job Description

1.0  Position Objective:  

Responsible for management of the Manufacturing, Assembly, Material Handling, within ITW Drawform’s facility in Waterbury Connecticut.  The role will lead efforts to prepare, start up and optimize a three 8-hour shift manufacturing process throughout the plant while building alliances and gaining buy-in from existing team members.  This person will apply modern & applicable automation & manufacturing systems to optimize production schedules, quality and cost objectives in a safe manner.

2.0  Essential Functions:

• Maintain efficient safety program according to company standards. Uphold a safe work environment for all employees including a focus on 5S and an injury/accident-free work place
• Improve operational performance by identifying, prioritizing, and assisting in the implementation of improvement projects or system enhancements, which result in efficiency improvements, quality improvements, and/or cost savings
• Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality; resolve problems; complete audits; identify trends
• Collaborate closely with scheduling, planning, maintenance and engineering to ensure equipment and facility readiness
• Analyze and improve organizational process and workflow, employee and space requirements, and equipment layout; implement changes to follow Model Factory concept
• Work closely with the inventory personnel to perform analysis of our inventory and ensure we are utilizing our inventory effectively, purchasing the right equipment, assist with maintaining solid inventory data
• Partner with plant manager, peers and human resources to ensure production needs are consistently met and that appropriate MRD inventory levels are maintained 
• Responsible for product quality and communicating customer expectations to the production team
• Develop and implement internal procedures and documentation to support the manufacturing operations
• Effectively manage the production team by setting clear goals, monitoring KPIs, maintaining accountability and creating risk mitigation plans, as necessary
• Identify training and development needs of staff, and initiate appropriate programs
• Support business growth by implementing necessary changes to product/production to enter new markets or grow existing product volumes
• Challenge the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about ideas which will work
• Supports cultural improvements and programs that are sustainable and employee engagement driven
• Translation of strategy into organization structure and governance models; diagnose, design, deliver and deploy organization design initiatives
• Conduct regular audits of the organizational structure and recommends changes to make the organization more efficient

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business or a related field and 4 to 6 years of relevant experience required
• Prior production supervision required
• Automation knowledge highly desirable
• Metal stamping and washing desirable
• Leading teams through change
• Ability to read & analyze data, and use this information to make decisions
• Understanding of production/inventory control
• Ability to influence outcomes, utilizing effective communication skills across functions and at senior levels
• Excellent leadership skills, as evidenced by a track record of hiring, retaining, developing, and motivating top-tier Operations talent
• Sound administrative and managerial skills
• Conflict Management, analytical, and diplomacy skills
• Self-starter and a team player
• Continuous improvement techniques with manufacturing processes and capabilities
• Excellent problem-solving, written and verbal communication, and presentation/facilitation skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products and ERP systems
• Ability to influence others and gain buy in from highly tenured production team members
• Comfortable