Position Overview
Ultimate Staffing is actively seeking an experienced Manufacturing Operations Manager to join their client's dynamic team in California. This role is pivotal in overseeing and optimizing all areas of manufacturing operations, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all areas of operations, including manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, inventory facilities, and planning.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation within the operations team.
- Continually review manufacturing processes and implement solutions to lower costs and improve productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, and quality.
- Oversee manufacturing engineering function to develop standard documentation and instructions for manufacturing activities.
- Ensure the plant is compliant with all safety regulations, local, and federal regulations.
- Develop metrics and ensure proper reporting to track the performance of the manufacturing operation against budget, including revenue projections, backlog action plans, schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, efficiency, scrap, and cost containment initiatives.
- Participate with and provide direction as necessary to shop floor managers/supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
- Lead cross-functional teams to conduct root cause analysis of all defects and lead the mistake-proofing efforts.
- Coordinate plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and align with manufacturing and budget objectives.
- Resolve production scheduling problems by quickly analyzing information and implementing short-term and long-term corrective actions.
- Proactively communicate information to peers and work on implementing solutions that satisfy all parties' expectations. Keep open dialog on improvement activities and key operational targets and objectives.
- Ensure the required manpower competence, skill, knowledge, and equipment are needed to achieve the production/demand targets.
- Ensure personal and professional development of direct reports. Effectively manage, develop, and motivate direct and indirect reports.
- Provide effective, constructive, and appropriate feedback and leadership to direct reports to foster a positive, team atmosphere while establishing responsibilities and accountabilities that are clear and measurable.
- Timely communication of goal progress, roadblocks, and solutions to the President.
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to all procedures, set-up requirements, and work instructions in compliance with ISO 9001.
- Maintain an active floor presence and hold regular meetings with employees on all shifts to ensure good communication, teamwork, and cooperation.
- Perform other similar and related duties as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree is required.
Required Work Hours
Monday to Friday, first shift.
Benefits
Additional details on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. For unincorporated Los Angeles county , to the extent our customers require a background check for certain positions, the Company faces a significant risk to its business operations and business reputation unless a review of criminal history is conducted for those specific job positions.