Director of Operations

7 days ago

Seymour, United States Silgan Plastics Full time

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

This position reports to the Vice President of Operations and exists for two reasons, 1) to manage a group of Silgan manufacturing facilities and insure each of the Plant Managers comply with the Silgan set of values as outlined in the Plant Managers job description, and 2) work with the commercial team to develop winning business strategies for both organic and new customer growth.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

LEADERSHIP:

Effective leadership is a key requirement for this job. It must be consistently demonstrated across all functional areas.

Develop an operations environment and culture that maximize the contribution and results of all personnel through frequent plant visits, meetings, audits of personnel performance and results, feedback on expectations, and joint development of corrective action plans.

Meet frequently with Plant Management and gain an understanding (listen) of plant issues.

At least once per quarter have a formal (agenda) business review meeting with the Plant Management.

Manage efficiently and knowledgeably by walking around to observe and analyze the issues firsthand.

Ensure solutions are team based with complete acceptance by the Plant Management team.

Effective and responsive communications on all levels of the organization, i.e., e-mails, voicemail, and conference calls.

Ensure key personnel view you as easily approachable at any time.

Recognize good performance and provide feedback.

Review performance of key personnel on a regular basis.

Provide regular feedback on expectations

Assist the Plant Management with annual budgets and capital plans

OPERATIONS OPTIMIZATION:

Majority of the time will be spent in providing direction, counseling, development and guidance of each plant manager and their key staff members across a wide subject list of plant operating responsibilities. These include both short term and long-term solutions for:

Safety and Environmental Programs & Performance

Plants are following Silgan Safety Standards

Proven safety incentive plan is in place and work with HR group to revise as necessary

Silgan HR Policies

Quality Improvement programs for our products and customers

Key indices are reviewed with Plant Management on a regular basis

Monitor and provide feedback on housekeeping and GMP expectations

Corrective action plans include root cause analysis and other statistical tools and methods as required

Customer service practices and actual customer satisfaction

Plant productivity and scheduling practices improvements.

Capacity planning including infrastructure requirements to insure future growth and customer demands will be met

Action plans to achieve and/or exceed plant efficiency OEE goals

Effective scheduling and maximizing use of idle assets

Machinery and molding technical issues

Coordinate internal and/or external resources to address machine and/or molding issues.

Plant financial performance

Encourage plant managers to run their facilities like it is their own business

Ensure key managers understand their role in controllable costs

Assist the plants in developing forecasts

Review monthly profit & loss report and develop action plan to favorably impact future financial performance.

Cost reduction projects/programs

Overall plant staff development and job enrichment practices to develop personnel.

Engage and interact with all employees in the plants, use common sense, and gain peoples respect with your actions.

Capital project requirements and support plant needs for investments.

CROSS FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION:

Directors role is to coordinate the activities of operations, sales, pricing and technology to support the growth and profitability targets in areas of responsibility.

Sales coordination is required to meet customers expectations in a broad range of functions from order entry through delivery of a product on time. It also involves working with sales to achieve business growth.

Pricing coordination of operational inputs to maximize the market competitiveness with our proposals and bids to customers that result in business awards.

Technology coordination with Norcross to achieve the best-in-class machinery and operational systems is required to position our business with the best machinery and tools to compete in the marketplace. Also, working with Norcross to prioritize use of shared resources for best utilization of talent and time.

Be a project leader, or, at a minimum, a project team member for major projects.

Optimization of equipment utilization between plants making sure assets are used where it makes best business sense.

AUTHORITY LEVEL (if applicable):

EDUCATION:

Required: Bachelors

Preferred: Masters

EXPERIENCE:

Required: 10+ years of leadership in a manufacturing setting

Preferred: Plastics industry experience

LIMITATIONS & DISCLAIMER:

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

Silgan will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities unless doing so would cause undue hardship.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the associate occupying this position. Associates will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an at-will basis.

Silgan Plastics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or the presence of a disability, which would not prevent the performance of essential job duties with, or without reasonable accommodation of any other protective status.

Silgan Plastics is a drug-free workplace.

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