Machining/Manufacturing Leader/Value Stream Leader

Join an award-winning workplace of energetic, talented people, and be on one of the best work teams in the Chicagoland area!

We are devoted to having a workplace that supports each of our team members in making high quality products and working together to be the best at what we do. We are a sheet metal fabrication and machining company specializing in stainless steel, servicing the Midwest. Our customers are Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's) that are primarily in the food processing, food packaging, environmental, and pharmaceutical industries. We pride ourselves on our customer responsiveness which has made us successful for a number of years. Check us out at www.acemetal.com!

Benefits Offered Include:

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life

Short and Long Term Disability

Paid Time Off

9 Annual Paid Holidays

401k Retirement Plan

Weekly Pay Period

Value Stream Leader: 

Production Duties:

-       Ensure each team member operates in a safe manner and wears personal protective gear.

-       Ensure ACE delivers on-time, quality parts based on our customers’ requirements.

-       Ensure smooth transition between shifts so that all team members are productive as soon as they arrive.

-       Ensure team members have appropriate tools, fixtures and manufacturing supplies to meet customer quality requirements.

-       Ensure team members are maintaining tools and manage the designated vendor to calibrate them biannually as directed by the Quality Leader.

-       Ensure shop floor is customer tour ready at all times.

-       Manage daily performance by using established schedule and metrics.

-       Responsible management of overtime hours ensuring production goals are met.

-       Alert VP of Manufacturing on additional resource needs.

-       Responsible to ship your value streams share of our annual revenue and gross margin goals.

-       Review jobs over the estimate operations with the operators to determine if part needs to be requoted or process needs to be improved processes. Notify engineers.

-       Collaborate with Training Leader to develop skills training plans for each team member in the value stream.

-       Use 5 step problem solving system

Equipment Repair and Maintenance Duties:

-       Determine and coordinate when equipment needs relocation.

-       Ensure scheduled maintenance service for machines is completed.

-       Ensure equipment breakdowns are fixed promptly.

-       Determine if equipment is worth fixing, decommission old equipment.

Quality Duties:

-       Manage daily QC operation.

o   Prioritize what jobs need to ship from QC

o   Review RMAs with inspector and hand off to engineering for corrective action

o   Determine and execute course of action when a part does not pass quality requirement

Team Leader Duties

-       Promote and model the values and behaviors that define ACE’s trust-based

-       culture

-       Participate in ACE’s continuous improvement system including kaizen, TSSC 

-       problem solving, SOP’s, and safety audits

-       Use the ACE performance management system when team performance is

-       not living ACE’s values or poor job performance

-       Provide ongoing coaching and performance feedback to team members

-       Maintain daily communication with customers, engineers, and sales

-       regarding current order status

-       Participate in biweekly shipping huddles with the team

-       Run weekly team huddles

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of manufacturing experience with responsibilities of inventory control, IT systems, quality management, purchasing, production control and engineering.
• BS Degree in a manufacturing or Business discipline.
• Strong knowledge of CNC machining, tooling, welding, and production planning.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, and Six Sigma preferred.
• Ability to analyze KPI metrics and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, and team-building skills.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems for production planning.
• Strong blueprint reading.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Emotionally intelligent people skills.

This is safety sensitive position