Position Summary

Responsible for leading and developing people, processes and systems that ensure the highest safety, quality, productivity, and efficiency standards are achieved by applying Lean Manufacturing principles and tools.

• Workforce is safe and incident-free
• Continuous Improvement culture is developed and fostered
• Standard Work is in place for all processes
• Employees are meeting established Workplace Expectations
• Customer schedules and quality requirements are met
• First Pass Yields > 98%
• Budget and productivity goals and objectives are met

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles and tools to improve all aspects of safety, quality, service and cost.
• Drive innovation and change by communicating on key business initiatives and promoting employee engagement and involvement.
• Establish routine work practices and audits to ensure continuous improvement to 5S level.
• Ensure Standard Work is established and maintained for all processes.
• Develop, train and involve employees in maintaining and improving safety, efficiency, productivity, quality, cooperation and morale.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented. Execute cross-training and personal development strategies for direct reports.
• Model Workplace Expectations and coach employees to meet the same level of expectations in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
• Actively promotes and supports a safe work environment and ensures all employees work in a safe manner.
• Ensures all employees are properly trained in all safety procedures.
• Conducts accident investigation/root cause analysis for all incidents and accidents.
• Meet quality objectives by ensuring compliance to quality systems.
• Investigate root cause(s) of non-conformances, identify and execute corrective actions by expected completion date(s).
• Plan, organize and supervise all shift operations in accordance with production schedules. Maintain status of production, redeploy resources as required. Set and communicates expectations for daily production.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups to develop continuous improvement plans (i.e. engineering, programming, maintenance and quality) in order to achieve plant and work cell objectives.
• Ensures that throughput goals are attained and budget criteria is met or surpassed.

Position Requirements

• Ability to facilitate team problem solving, and communicate both orally and in writing.
• Working knowledge across all machining operations.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, summarize, and maintain information.
• Demonstrated ability to plan/organize/prioritize work for self’/others.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain effective interpersonal relations.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute effectively to a team effort.
• Ability to find, analyze, and solve problems.
• Ability to make/implement effective decisions.
• Proficiency in math, blueprint reading and geometric tolerancing
• Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English
• Bachelors of Science degree preferred. High school plus college level courses or equivalent training in manufacturing, machining, or equivalent required.
• Three to five years’ leadership experience in related aerospace production operations.
• Experienced Journey Machinist preferred.
• Must have worked with shop metrics, efficiency, productivity, utilization, and continuous improvement projects
• Must be able to accurately forecast labor needs based on current work loads