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L2x Talent Solutions

Director of Operations

carol stream, IL

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Job description

-Contribute to the strategic planning process of developing and implementing operations strategy

-Ensure fabrication teams operational performance metrics meet or exceed the IMS-EP objectives

-Conduct weekly GEMBA meeting with Zone teams to communicate daily performance, discuss close calls and remind employees of proper procedures

-Review daily fabrication shop production schedules and create team plans accordingly

-Conduct meetings with all lead persons to discuss plan of action

-Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to employees and assign duties

-Execute plan and monitor progress while providing expertise and assistance in areas needed to ensure successful completion of weekly production demands

-Develop, train, provide effective supervision and motivate hourly fabrication team

-Identify opportunities for cross training and capacity training in order to enhance capacity and responsiveness to customer requirements

-Ensure short throughput time and optimize production team based on fluctuating production demands

-Develops and recommends improvements of facility, equipment, or procedures to improve safety, quality, and efficiency

-Overall capacity planning, allocation of reserve capacity, identification of planned shutdowns and allocation of down-time for maintenance

-Reviews and analyzes production, quality, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, and operating or production problems

-Consults with engineering team relative to modification of machines and equipment in order to improve production or quality of products

-Recommends, implements and monitors changes required to ensure consistent hours per unit

-Monitor prototype project timeliness and expenditures on a per project basis to meet deadlines

-Work with Quality Control to establish a self-auditing process to check parts for conformance to print

-Manage and direct team and work with HR to address employee issues as they arise

-Manage disciplinary and progress reviews process

-Enforce and monitor all company policies

-Ensures health and safety guidelines set by the company

-Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

-Degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience

-8+ years of experience in sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing environment

-Strong understanding of sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing processes including, milling, forming, turrets, punch press, laser cutting/marking, welding, grinding and paint application

-5+ years of management/supervisory experience in a fabrication or manufacturing environment

-Experience managing low-volume, high-mix fabrication operations with significant schedule variability

-Experience communicating production schedules, commitments and potential issues with customers and internal teams

-Experience leading Managers, Leads and hourly manufacturing personnel

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Worksite address

carol stream, IL, 60158, US

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