Injection Molding Manager

Summary

Plans, directs, coordinates, evaluates, and provides leadership and development/mentoring for salaried and hourly employees in the molding department.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

· Ensures employees complete safety training, safe work environment established, leads department safety team, provided leadership for plant wide program.

· Establish production metrics and tracking systems for molding production area.

· Coordinate planning and schedule activities to ensure customer open orders are covered on time of requirement ship date.

· Monitoring production output and quality to ensure that production targets are met and that parts meet customer specifications.

· Ensure all materials are accurately recorded in computer system (total parts produced and scrap) and are labeled with CLC Part # Identification or any other identification required before this is moved to another process or shipping docks.

· Liaison with all applicable departments to minimize any disruptions to production plan.

· Monitor daily production performance and work with department leadership to ensure corrective actions are taken when necessary to meet production goals.

· Coordinate through Human Resources to ensure adequate staffing is available to support production requirements.

· Supervise and train manufacturing staff, familiarize them with SOP including machine startup, operation of machine, phone case demolding techniques, minor processing adjustments, handling and quality assurance of product after demolding, shut down, etc. all with an emphasis on safety.

· Assist with problem solving activities to improve areas of deficiency to performance metrics.

· Analyze production performance and implement improvement action plans where targets are not being met.

· Monitor associates’ compliance to company policies and work standards.

· Oversee production launch activities for all assigned departments.

· Responsible for developing and managing budgets.

· Work in collaboration with warehouse and senior materials manager to ensure smooth flow of materials.

· Support training activities and verification of training effectiveness.

· Coach and counsel direct reports on department and personal performance.

· Support continuous improvement activities through coaching of team members, assignment of personnel to support Kaizen events or quality circles and as a cross-functional team member.

· Participate in and support cost saving programs to ensure corporate objectives are met.

· Update A3 metrics monthly.

· Administer discipline in accordance with company policies.

· Conduct annual performance reviews.

· Ensure layered process audits (LPA) assigned are conducted as scheduled.

· Support ISO, IATF and/or TS16949 audits, guidelines, and initiatives.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervises all salaried personnel in molding departments

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or a minimum of three to five years in injection molding, processing, and troubleshooting plastics processing or equivalent combination of education and experience. Previous manufacturing management experience including supervision, and project management at exempt level required.

Language Skills

Ability to write reports and business correspondence; ability to effectively read and interpret blueprints; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from individuals, groups of associates, or management representatives, suppliers, and customers; ability to use computerized applications to summarize production status or activities and email systems in the day-to-day functions of the job.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Certificates, Licenses, or Registrations

NA

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is occasionally exposed to fumes, potentially hazardous chemicals and outside weather conditions. Exposure to extreme heat or cold may be encountered. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Work will typically be from eight to ten hours per day, five days a week, with occasional travel, by car or commercial aircraft, for external meetings with customers.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Newberry, SC 29108 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Newberry, SC 29108: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person