Production Area Manager

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The Production Area Manager will manage 3-4 supervisors on a 3-shift operation in an automotive battery manufacturing plant. They will provide leadership for departmental operations, covering safety, quality, efficiency, and delivery, while meeting financial targets and quality standards and controlling costs.

Location Manchester, Iowa (postal code 52057), Delaware County, centrally located near hubs such as Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque with local amenities.

• Manage the manufacture, assembly and/or distribution of product within budget and standards of policies, procedures, priorities, and quality.
• Directly supervise all shift supervisors.
• Develop and implement methods to improve productivity, space utilization, and quality.
• Assure compliance with all safety, health policies and procedures.
• Manage department budgets and blood lead targets.
• Train and develop supervision.
• Determine required staffing and maintain efficient use of hours meeting budget requirements.
• Monitor and assure housekeeping and orderliness throughout the department using 5S standards.
• Collaborate with maintenance to ensure optimal efficiency of equipment and TPM completions.
• Comply with current Quality Systems requirements.
• Manage department scrap to below target.
• Support Lean Manufacturing procedures.
• Work with the Continuous Improvement Department to reduce cost and improve efficiencies.
• Perform other work as assigned by the Operations Manager or Plant Manager.

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering discipline preferred.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing-based setting; tier automotive supplier experience ideal.
• Collaboration/team-based management style.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Drive and energy to grow manufacturing throughput.
• Demonstrated history of continuous improvement, creativity, and results.
• Lean Six Sigma experience considered a plus.
• Conflict management training and experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proven track record of growth and development.
• Passion for driving change in a complex environment.

• Sitting, standing, bending, twisting, and walking as necessary.
• Industrial environment inside and outside the plant.
• Exposure to lead, fumes, noise, dust, hazards, chemicals, heat and cold.
• Wearing proper PPE required.
• Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs.

Stryten Energy is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Stryten Energy helps solve the world’s most pressing energy challenges with a broad range of energy storage solutions across the Essential Power, Motive Power, Transportation, Military and Government sectors. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we partner with some of the world’s most recognized companies to meet the growing demand for reliable, sustainable energy storage capacity. Our technologies include advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow batteries, intelligent chargers, and energy performance management software that keep people on the move and supply chains running.

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