What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Director position at Vantage Point Recruiters, LLC.?
The role of Plant Superintendent at Vantage Point Recruiters, LLC is to provide strategic leadership and management to achieve safety, quality, and production goals.
The successful candidate will lead a team of hourly and salary employees, overseeing all aspects of the operation, including safety, production, maintenance, warehouse, budget management, productivity improvements, and quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain departments in proper and safe condition, ensuring environmental compliance and overseeing programs to safeguard personnel, preserve facilities, and promote good housekeeping
- Manage overall activities to ensure proper workflow, maintenance of production schedules, acceptable quality levels, and inventory levels
- Utilize facilities, workforce, and analysis of methods and materials to achieve economic operating costs using team management concepts and administration of work rules
- Develop and implement annual budgets, quality programs, and productivity improvement plans, coordinating technical activities with Engineering
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, or Ceramics) or business management, with the ability to demonstrate technical proficiency, and a minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in a manufacturing environment with supervisory and management roles
- Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to manage a staff of 150 hourly/salary employees, set direction, deploy resources, and perform performance evaluations, pay reviews, hiring, and terminating
- Demonstrated ability to drive change in a heavy industrial environment, develop highly efficient teams on the shop floor, and experience with productivity tools such as Lean and/or Six Sigma
- Experience with an ERP system, preferably SAP, and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
