Fabrication Unit Manager

Provide visible safety leadership and actively contribute to creating, implementing, and continuous improvement of a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with the EHS Manager.
Provide leadership to monitor key metrics, KPIs and develop action plans achieve equipment utilization, cost attainment, quality, delivery, budget and manpower goals.
Ensure staffing composition and skills to meet operational, reliable, customer, and financial objectives.
Assist in preparing resource forecasts and providing input to longer-term work plans.
Drive Carrier Excellence principles.
Focus team on continuously seeking opportunity for improvement.
Support, encourage, and facilitate Kaizen events to ensure related countermeasures are implemented on time and are effective improvement projects.
Live, promote and teach the Carrier Way philosophy and recruit talented employees, participate in workforce and development planning efforts, establish clear expectations, and effectively manage performance.
Provide training, coaching, and oversight and drive employee engagement.
Comply with local and national labor laws and legislations to minimize labor disruptions.
Maintain a continuous presence in the work environment and remove barriers as needed.
Develop a strong partnership with operations and plant leadership staff to build a solid cross functional support relationship to achieve overall factory goals.

3+ years of experience within a unionized, manufacturing environment.
Excellent communication skills; candidate must be comfortable providing briefings at all levels of management and interacting with all levels of the organization.
Ability to influence decisions downstream and upstream.
Solid understanding of lean principles to effectively create, implement and monitor process improvement initiatives.
Excellent project management skills and the ability to effectively lead and team with multiple functional groups to reach a common objective.
Strong business acumen.