What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Superintendent position at Deceuninck North America?
Deceuninck North America is seeking a Production Superintendent for its North American Headquarters. The Plant is responsible for overall management, coordination, and execution of the manufacturing operation to deliver products in the most cost-efficient manner while adhering to safety, quality and environmental standards and procedures. Leads initiatives to improve overall department efficiency and effectiveness by working with cross functional teams through continuous improvement processes. Works closely with Process Engineering and Equipment Maintenance to ensure manufacturing process are stable, in statistical control and meeting specification. Works closely with the S&OP team to meet business growth goals and customer expectations for quality and delivery. Mentors Crew Managers and Production Supervisors to elevate the maturity of the operation’s leadership. This position reports to the Plant Manager.
Core Responsibilities:
- Develop operational plans and financial budgets based on the company's short and long-range business objectives, existing sales, projected sales forecasts, inventory requirements, and other related factors.
- Drives accountability for operational performance, quality performance, delivery performance, cost performance
- Participates in developing the long-term strategy for the plant and operation, being a main stakeholder as the voice of the operation.
- Provide direction and leadership for immediate subordinates in the management of their assigned areas to ensure that their responsibilities for attaining objectives and satisfactory performance are met consistent with established policies and programs.
- Assesses competency and capabilities of direct reports, ensures development for greater utility within the business, and actively deploys retention efforts to ensure zero regretted losses.
- Executes continuous improvement initiatives including determination of goals and selection and completion of projects.
- Develops and maintains detailed plans to achieve group goals, including but not limited to revenue, product gross margins, operating budgets, first-pass yields, throughput, inventory, rework, scrap, on-time delivery, employee safety, product quality and customer satisfaction goals.
- Ensures metrics are in place to monitor performance against the goals and takes appropriate corrective actions as required.
- Maintain the necessary communications and effective relationships with other company functions required to support the operation.
- Supports business development proposals and engineering efforts by providing technical and production resources necessary.
- Owns safety culture for team, Manages safety investigations and related corrective actions. Participates on Safety Committee with meaningful contributions.
Qualifications:
- 7 years in manufacturing including 2 years at a manager level position directing operations of similar manufacturing facility with direct responsibility to meet production throughput and quality goals.
- Experience working with complex/engineered product lines.
- Experience managing a 24/7 continuous manufacturing operation.
- Significant experience defining and utilizing manufacturing systems, data, and metrics to plan and execute production plans.
- Able to lead cross functional teams to identify the root cause and implement effective corrective actions for problems which impede the execution of production plans.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and facilitation skills required to effectively interact with all teams, areas, and levels of business.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and successfully multi-task, excellent organizational skills, a high sense of urgency.
- Working knowledge of MRP / ERP Systems required; SAP MRP system preferred.
- Exceptional computer skills in the operation and functioning of MS office products.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Operations, Business or related field or equivalent experience.
Internal Candidate Instructions:
To be considered for the above position, please visit our website WorkAtDNA.com, click on Careers, search for the job posting and upload your resume.
At Deceuninck North America (DNA), career development is a shared responsibility in which all employees are encouraged to develop, improve, and enhance their skills and professional growth to support DNA’s business objectives.
