Factory Operations Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Our Direct Client has a new Factory Operations Manager job. As a Factory Operation Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and short / long-term planning for the groups they manage. They manage manufacturing, production control, engineering, and inventory control, focusing on the development of technologies and continuous improvement and translating customer requirements into state-of-the-art manufacturing strategies for the focused process.

Responsibilities and Duties :

• Responsibilities and Duties : Responsible for the day-to-day operations and longer-term planning for manufacturing functions, including manufacturing, production control, engineering, inventory control, purchasing, and quality.
• Defines goals, improves technologies, and resolves problems.
• Develops operations related plans, budgets, and policies and procedures.
• Responsible for analyzing customer demand against existing capacity and driving effective and timely implementation of CER's to continuously improve deliveries, costs and quality.
• Responsible for analyzing manufacturing variances and identifying root cause. Assign projects to owning disciplines for implementation of corrective action. Measure for effectiveness to continuously improve manufacturing margins.
• Responsible for continuously improving standard costs. Assign projects for standard cost improvements. Measure for effectiveness of improvement to meet customers’ productivity expectations.
• Responsible for analyzing delivery and quality constraints. Use DMAIC process to identify root cause and assign projects within team for implementation of corrective action. Measure for effectiveness to continuously improve and control delivery and quality performance.
• Responsible for assessing skills within local control (plant) and matching skills to requirements. Identify areas where improvement of skills are required and implement training plan to meet requirements.
• Responsible to continuously drive towards lean manufacturing through the elimination of redundancy and waste.
• Responsible for focusing factory team on driving continuous improvement projects in quality, costs, and delivery, through KPI’s Lean Manufacturing) and philosophy.
• Plays a key role in the capacity planning process and leads the implementation of new capacity when needed.
• Leads the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process for the value stream.
• Works closely with the launch organization on the introduction of new products.
• Responsible for year over year productivity, financial and safety improvement

Qualifications

If you are interested in this Factory Operations Manager job please apply now to be connected with a member of our team.

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Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community. Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. www.aquinasconsulting.com