Manufacturing Manager-Anaheim

Overview

Position Summary:

The Manufacturing Manager will ensure the safe and efficient delivery of quality product to internal and external customers throughout the world.

• Safety:
  Maintain and improve a safety culture that always provides a work environment free from hazards and the employee commitment to behave in a safe manner.
• Safety:
  Ensure that all OSHA and local regulatory requirements are met for training, documentation and reporting.
• Safety:
  Ensure all local and state environmental regulations and requirements are fulfilled.
• Quality:
  Deliver Six Sigma levels of quality to internal and external customers. Enthusiastically drive the company’s quality standards to comply with cGMP and ISO 13485.
• Quality:
  Work closely with the technical team to support specific validation efforts.
• Quality:
  Leverage the company standards for work instructions, document management, and training.
• Quality:
  Ensure quality problems are quickly identified, contained, eliminated, and prevented from recurring.
• Quality:
  Respond to customer complaints through the disciplined application of the company’s CAPA procedure. Contain potential problems, investigate causes, implement solutions and prevent the problem from recurring.
• Delivery:
  Achieve OTIF performance of 97% to ensure customer lead time expectations and promise dates are fulfilled.
• Delivery:
  Work with planning, scheduling and purchasing to ensure the efficient and effective scheduling of production.
• Delivery:
  Balance the need to reduce inventories, meet customer promises, and optimize the productivity of the operation.
• Productivity:
  Coordinate the efficient and effective installation of plant upgrades and new equipment with suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Productivity:
  Drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to best-in-class levels through targeted improvement and process control efforts, including work standards, robust training, statistical process control, error-proofing, rapid changeover methods, and thoughtful scheduling.
• Productivity:
  Work cross-functionally to provide the information needed to maintain accurate Engineering Masters and Quality Documentation.
• Morale / Leadership:
  Model the company values to create an open, engaging culture.
• Morale / Leadership:
  Communicate and share business reality with the workforce and prepare people for change. Use Key Performance Indicators to communicate goals and progress.
• Morale / Leadership:
  Develop the workforce’s technical, and communication skills to ensure operational performance can be sustained over time and disruptions to customer needs are prevented.
• Morale / Leadership:
  Ensure the consistent and thoughtful application of company policies and programs by working closely with human resources.
• Management:
  Prepare thoughtful operational plans, KPI targets, and budgets.
• Management:
  Drive continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste and improve operational performance.

• Education:
  
  B.S. in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Operations or closely related field.
• Experience:
  
  5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  
  Strong speaking and writing skills;
  Knowledge of lean manufacturing and history of optimizing manufacturing processes;
  Demonstrated ability to cultivate a continuous improvement culture;
  Skilled at technical writing;
  Personal traits – self-starter, results oriented, initiative, sense of urgency, good communications skills, and ability to work with details. Possesses strong tendencies to work in partnership with both colleagues and customers.

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 10lbs.
• Daily exposure to Manufacturing environment

• Ability to travel (US and internationally)
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends