Manufacturing Manager

Company: Ultra PRO International
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities -

• Motivate, support, train and provide guidance to production staff
• Establish annual capacity plan to meet sales forecasts. -Works with Sales & Product Development to schedule work orders and other related production activities to meet sales demand. -
• Create MPS report. -Works closely with Purchasing on understanding product flow and delays.
• Design and plan new production work centers, and continuously improve existing work centers to maximize production quality, efficiency and output
• Ensuring all OSHA, Covid-19, additional safety and health standards are met to keep organization accident-free
• Ensure all staff schedules are made and enforced to comply with any government labor regulations as well Ultra Pro's employee handbook.
• Identify and initiate machinery repairs, upgrades, additions and replacements to ensure continued production and minimal downtime with Maintenance department
• Establishing a balance between increased productivity and reduced costs of manufacturing operations
• Setting productivity goals and other KPIs for each production work center team
• Developing workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality. -SOP creation and implementation for all work centers & roles.
• Review material requirements for components, sub assembled parts. Work closely with Purchasing, Sales, & Product Development on upcoming projects. -Engage engineering when applicable for support.
• Maintains inventory levels of finished products consistent with service levels, sales forecast, production requirements. -Oversees daily work orders completion.
• Assist Production Scheduler in planning production within the department by providing data, as needed, to aid in eliminating work flow difficulties or stoppages.
• Recommends process changes that could lead to more accurate materials accountability or increased manpower efficiency
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor -Other Responsibilities
  • Perform any other projects as needed and assigned by senior management team
  • Attend meetings & events at Ultra PRO's Commerce office or other locations as needed
  • Provide support to manufacturing initiatives at satellite sites (i.e. Ohio, Belgium warehouses)
  • Set up monitoring procedures to ensure proper quality. -Assist QA in correcting and identifying production quality issues.
  • Monitors & reports on daily work order status
  • Reviews work-in-process reports for anomalies
  • Investigate and resolve problem work orders. -Assist warehouse in inventory and/or transaction research.
  • Analyze and do adjustments on the MPS weekly report -Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in related coursework and/or 10+ years of management experience in a light manufacturing environment
    • Prior manufacturing planning experience (demand planning or forecasting) 5+ years
    • Prior KPI development and implementation
    • Prior plastic film conversion experience preferred
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    • Strong leadership and project management skills
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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