Manufacturing Manager
| Company | Silgan |
|---|---|
| Location | Houston, TX, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Must be bilingual (Spanish and English).
- Very knowledgeable and experienced with quick change over methods
- Excellent problem solving and general trouble shooting skills.
- Proven leader with experience supervising a in a high speed production environment.
- An absolute commitment to safety.
- Excellent computer skills with Microsoft Office
- Effective oral and written communication.
- Excellent interpersonal and coaching skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
Responsibilities
- Must share common goals based on the financial expectations for the plant o Quality, Production, Maintenance, etc. – safety, customer & internal quality, scrap, downtime, etc.
- Optimize production staffing plan to maximize effective cost structure
- Drive overall improvements based on data from our OEE and Tableau systems while speaking to gaps in performance based on the daily OEE reports.
- Develop housekeeping program and standards that ensures production area is in optimal state at all times.
- Work with various team inside and outside the plant, to develop solutions that quickly resolve deviations from standards
- Responsible for daily, weekly, monthly production performance and correcting negative trends quickly and permanently
- Ensuring production related spending remains within the designated budget, while monitoring and prioritizing activities to ensure maximum benefit and value.
- Establish manufacturing methods that ensure quality and repeatability of process.
- Develop an effective and flexible change over program that minimizes downtime, from last good part to next good part.
- Leadership, development, and management of the production personnel to ensure the department operates safely, efficiently, and effectively.
- Network with production members in other Silgan locations to share best practices and optimize production processes
- Daily, weekly, and monthly report outs on production performance, with analysis and countermeasures for not meeting targets.
- Assist in capital projects and project timelines from inception through to completion.
- Ensure the production environment and team members are always operating safely.
- Develops opportunities to reduce costs or improve performance through effective capital planning and/or workflow redesign.
- Timely and effective communication with Plant Manager and plant team on key production issue that impact, safety, quality, cost, or lead times.
- Ensure data enter into performance tracking systems are accurate and unbiased, to ensure we truly understand performance of the facility.
- Member of plant Safety Committee with a strong commitment to safety.
- Provides support as needed for a 24-hour 7 day a week blow molding operation.
- Ensure plant operates within compliance guidelines for government environmental standards including local, state, and federal requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
- Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Working with a Total Preventative Maintenance System.
- Processing background in a blow molding facility.
- Troubleshooting experience with Shuttle platforms, preferably Sabmann, Bekum, Kautex, B&W and Battenfeld Fischer.
- Financial Acumen