Production and Process Manager

We’ve been leading the Weiler way for four generations, creating value-enhancing solutions for cleaning, grinding, cutting, deburring and finishing. It’s not just what we do, but how we do it. If you have the passion and energy to spark success and are bold enough to see the possibilities, join us to help build our future, and we'll help build yours.

The ideal candidate will be located within a commutable distance of Cresco, PA as this role mandates being on-site, full-time .

Position summary:

The Production and Process Manager, Cresco Operations, will lead the plant's manufacturing and W&L operations to achieve customer satisfaction and meet critical business objectives by building a safe, lean, and metric-driven manufacturing culture. In this function, the Production and Process Manager will need to be part of creating, communicating, supporting and executing the vision and goals of the business. The role requires the ability to formulate and drive the operational strategy within the business while developing and exceeding the operational and financial metrics of the business.

This role reports to the Director of North American Operations overseeing the Manufacturing, Warehouse & Distribution, and Production Scheduling functions for the Cresco Operations. In addition, the Production and Process Manager will work with functional leads in Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, Quality, and EH&S to ensure that effective collaboration occurs to successfully meet assigned plant goals.

The Production and process Manager's goal is to ensure customer commitments are met both with quality and timely delivery as well as leading the manufacturing team to support a high-performance people-oriented culture using the Weiler Leadership Behaviors.

Essential job functions and responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities are conducted in a safe manner and in compliance with all applicable regulations and Company procedures through development of a behavioral based safety program and engineered safety program.
• Support a culture of safety and compliance by reinforcing policies, participating in safety reviews, and assisting with resolution of potential risks.
• Collaborate with operations leadership to integrate safety considerations into all production areas and projects.
• Implement a customer focused operational culture delivering world class customer delivery and quality.
• Develops and leads a culture of continuous improvement by embracing lean thinking, six sigma statistical tool analysis, having people centered leadership throughout the operation.
• Identifies and implements methods and processes supported by standard work to drive operational improvements in productivity, quality, on time performance, and operating profits.
• Manage plant operations and ensure daily, weekly, and monthly KPI’s and production objectives are met.
• Plans daily, monthly production plans to achieve monthly KPI’s and production objectives, monitor performance against plan, and drive countermeasures when performance does not meet expectation.
• Utilize the SIOP planning process to maintain and continuously improve customer performance, inventory management, production and supply chain capacity planning.
• Develops robust processes for control of quality utilizing standard work with aim of providing avenue for continuous improvement in quality and productivity.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to the operational team, enabling them to achieve the operational and financial metrics of the organization
• Lead employee engagement through HPWS High Performance Work System teams developing a culture of ownership, problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Foster a workplace that engages and challenges every employee while continually improving the quality of life for employees and the desire to grow with the company.
• Create open lines of communications within and across departments through a structured and multi-layered communication process.
• In collaboration with Engineering, Maintenance, Industrialization, Product Management, and Finance, develop and implement effective systems and processes to measure and improve performance and drive cost…