Industrial Fabrication Director

The Value Stream Manager is responsible for the overall management of a Value Stream production area, ensuring safety, quality, performance, and continuous improvement.

As part of the primary mission, he/she ensures the achievement of the VSM results in compliance with work standards and the Silgan quality system, achieving total customer satisfaction.

This leader is a change agent developing short and long-term goals and creating a continuous improvement environment with unconditional commitment to safety, employee development, and engagement.

He/she implements strategic programs that improve labor efficiency, on-time delivery, continuous quality improvement, workplace safety, and exceed customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participates in the development of production schedules with the supply chain.
• Adapts production capacities to the load on a daily basis.
• Determines machine priorities with the team.
• Maintains value stream staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and developing employees.
• Achieves staff results by communicating job goals and expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Initiates, coordinates, and enforces systems, policies, and procedures.
• Achieves financial objectives by establishing team objectives, developing budgets, controlling costs, and maximizing the use of available assets.
• Develops an industrial performance improvement plan (quality, costs, deadlines, safety) and reports results.
• Works with all functional departments to actively pursue manufacturing excellence programs and fosters a "one plant" partnership with peers to achieve aligned goals.
• Develops and implements an annual operating plan, including a capital plan, cost reduction projects, production department budget, eliminating non-value, and defining Six Sigma & Kaizen profit improvement programs.
• Manages problem-solving, root cause analysis, and corrective actions, leading the PDCA thinking to rapidly and skillfully deal with problems.
• Provides management with detailed reporting as required - daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

Requirements:

• 5-8 years' experience improving team results in a semi-automated assembly or injection molding operation.
• Experience in managing multiple functional groups (operators, mechanics, front-line supervisors) in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Ability to use programs like Microsoft Excel to track trends and measure improvement.

Silgan is an equal opportunity employer and considers 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.