Operations Assembly Manager

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• Competitive salary and bonus
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time - 15 days of vacation first year
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one
• Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities with outstanding resources
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy
• JCI Employee discount programs
• The manufacturing facility is located within a business park, spanning 14 acres and totaling 165,000 square feet, with over 200 employees.

You will be responsible for assuring the Air Handler Unit production processes (Assembly, Painting and Shipping) ensuring they are executed efficiently, cost-effectively, and in compliance with quality standards. You will also be responsible for maintaining the safety of the area, scheduling assignments, line balancing, evaluation and control of building, monitoring of fulfillment of customer production and quality requirements, control of scrap and rework, efficiency, application of overtime, and documentation of these activities and act as primary contact for in-house departments for production-related issues in assigned areas while directly supervising 5 Supervisors as well as an indirect team of 110 assembly operators.

• Direct production supervisors in the plant and coordinate production work through familiarity with all manufacturing processes. Maintain a continual awareness of safety, quality, efficiency, scrap and production schedules.
• Motivate and direct the training of production supervisors. Train and develop individuals, instill in them a sense of responsibility, and evaluate them on their progress.
• Analyze and determine staffing requirements. Study daily operating results, meet daily with subordinates, and consult with supervisors on solutions to production problems. Ensure that problems have been corrected. Maintain cooperation between departments.
• Ensure safe work practices are followed by all manufacturing personnel. Inform the employees of deficiencies and violations and take corrective action, if necessary, to ensure that procedures and practices are being followed. Assist in maintaining OSHA compliance on the plant floor. Provide Safety training on a continuous basis.
• Ensure correct distribution of staff and assist with training for all new or transferred employees. Coordinate temporary staff requirements.
• Work with leadership and the Continuous Improvement (CI)/Manufacturing Engineering team to develop a roadmap for Continuous Improvement in the assigned area for processes and productivity.
• Drives the JCMS - Johnson Controls Manufacturing System - throughout the plant, implements and sustains this culture with continuous training and development of hourly production personnel in the manufacturing principles and governing behaviors.
• Support and lead 5S activities throughout the manufacturing facility to continuously improve the 5S Score.
• Lead Kaizen Events and performs lean training for the production personnel in the assigned area.
• Drive formal problem-solving methods in the production floor with production personnel to drive a culture of continuous improvement and quality, and controls scrap and rework, and provides quality product to the customer.
• Understand financial reporting and drives improvements based on KPI goals.
• Authorize and evaluate the overtime requirement…