Manager-Exterior

2 weeks ago


Cottondale, United States SMP AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS AL INC Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Motherson is a multinational, people-focused enterprise serving a diversified industry range with a broad range of products and services and is one of the 22 largest automotive suppliers worldwide. With facilities spread across 41 countries and the strength of over 200,000 employees, the company has a truly global environment where diversity and inclusion drive our culture.

SMP Automotive is the Motherson Group’s specialist in innovative modules and complete systems for the automotive industry.

  • A globally preferred supplier of cockpits, door panels and bumpers in Europe, United States, Mexico, Brazil, and China.
  • A leading plastic expert with innovative processes and technologies.
  • One of the largest suppliers of bumpers, instrument panels and door panels to the premium segment.

Locally, since 2018, SMP Alabama has been producing modules and polymer products for Mercedes Benz US International (MBUSI) in our state-of-the-art facilities. Parts we produce include:

  • Interior door panels
  • Front and Rear Bumpers
  • Grills
  • Claddings
  • Rear Spoilers
  • Rocker Panels
  • Running Boards

Exterior Assembly Manager

The ideal candidate should have the following attributes and/or skills:

  • Graduate engineer or industrial engineer Preferable: specialization in plastics technology/machinery manufacturing or process technology
  • Professional and management experience in the automobile industry
  • Plastics, process and automation technology
  • Production methods (for example, Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping)
  • Quality Management
  • Management techniques
  • Personnel management, personnel planning and development
  • Order control
  • Costs/Action control
  • REFA/MTM training
  • ISO/TS 16949
  • Quality VDA 6.3
  • English
  • IT knowledge (Office, SAP R3, ... )

Main Duties

  • Ensuring supplies to the customers while complying with the due date and quality requirements
  • Controlling and managing the sequence of assembly
  • Determining cost calculation data
  • Implementation and monitoring of the given goals
  • Ensuring the implementation of new projects
  • Optimization of the production sequences and production processes with reference to high product quality and increasing the quantity accuracy.
  • Personnel management, personnel planning and development
  • Budget planning and responsibility for costs
  • Investment planning
  • Enforcement of compliance with the quality management system and the quality requirements
  • Sustained continuous improvement process actions and process and product optimization
  • Ensuring continuous improvement in tidiness and cleanliness
  • Ensuring compliance with all the accident prevention and health protection measures
  • Operational suggestion system
  • Ensuring and supporting professional education
  • Reporting to the plant management
  • Promotion of the readiness of the employees to work independently in the framework of the delegated authority for achieving optimum performance
  • Ensuring that the “correct staff is occupying the correct position” as well as a purposeful personnel search for potential candidates

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