Vice President of Manufacturing

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JOB SUMMARY

The VP of Manufacturing will participate in the creation and implementation of a strategic business plan designed to bring operational efficiencies to help grow the business significantly over the next three to five years, while directing manufacturing operations through a team of functional managers and supervisors. The position ensures increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of workforce, materials, and machines.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provides clear and missional leadership as well as positive and disciplined coaching of subordinates, enabling them to achieve desired results. Foster a collaborative culture providing for accountability and authority at the most practical level closest to work undertaken.
• Establishes priorities and oversee production schedules to support target metrics, and customers' delivery and quality requirements.
• Ensures capacity is aligned with committed orders, due dates, and capabilities.
• Coordinates with management and leads production manager(s) to ensure the Company's production, quality and Lean objectives are supported.
• Conducts weekly manufacturing operations review of order status, quality and performance objectives and lead change initiatives for corrective actions and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with administrative and technical functions to ensure customer contractual requirements are being fulfilled.
• Interfaces with the customer as required and supports customer requests.
• Ensures continuous process improvement principles ("LEAN") are implemented to improve overall throughput of assigned areas operations.
• Ensures development of Master Scheduler (for all sites) in collaboration with other personnel, to support customer requirements company wide.
• Ensures performance measurement metrics in all production areas are accurate and enhanced as needed to maintain a healthy and competitive operation.
• Leads policy deployment in the areas of lean manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls, and plant performance measures.
• Provides leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
• Provides leadership for problem resolution to facilitate fast improvements and improved working relationships (i.e., "healthy sense of urgency").
• Ensures corporate goals and objectives are met with "VTO's" as primary reference point for individual goals and objective

KEY COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS
• An organized and results-oriented manufacturing professional with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and thoroughly.
• Capable of bringing structure and order in an environment of high change while building a management team that values profitable action, and an entrepreneurial spirit and an empowered employee culture.
• Capable of building and maintaining solid, positive relationships with team members, customers, and vendors. Should be patient, but tactfully persistent.
• Technically superior, capable of identifying potential opportunities for improvements in manufacturing operations and executing solutions, strategies, and investments to affect same while meeting profit objectives.
• A solid manager of people, with a history of working and promoting a collaborative work environment where employees feel empowered.
• A sophisticated, operations businessperson, capable of making solid judgments based upon available information that creates and sustains maximum value for the organization while conserving company resources.
• An individual of high integrity and honesty, along with the capacity and motivation to see and act upon the strategic vision for the company.
• A strategically focused individual with a history of successfully implementing change in a fast-paced industry.
• An outstanding negotiator that will seek effective, profitable solutions to problems for customers' requirements.
• Strong presentation skills in both speaking and writing. The candidate should possess persuasive speaking skills with audiences of all levels.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree preferred (in applicable field); experience considered in lieu of.
• 10+ years of manufacturing management experience

o preferably in a sheet metal fabrication, CNC machining, complex welding and/or automation setting
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience (personnel, teams, projects, programs)
• Experience in the development and management of shop floor personnel and supervisors is required.
• Multi-facility leadership experience is preferred.
• Previous successful implementation of lean manufacturing principles is required.
• Significant past performance demonstrating the ability to discover and consistently provide high value manufacturing services which maintain, grow, and enhance profit margins.
• Skilled in the use of computers, comfortable in technical and engineering-oriented environments is necessary.

H3 Manufacturing Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should email HR@H3mfgGroup.com.

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