Location
Research Triangle Park, NCType
Full TimePay Scale
Salary: $135,000 - $160,000Required Qualifications
Education and/or Experience :
- BS – Engineering or similar technology major desired.
- 10 – 15 years of demonstrated manufacturing management experience and success in a metals or chemicals manufacturing environment with a progression of increased responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience with manufacturing resources planning.
- Hands-on experience with the development and implementation of Lean Initiatives, OEE Management, visual factory and shop floor reporting systems.
- Proven verbal and written communication skills to enable the incumbent to provide effective daily leadership and meaningful presentations to location employees, customers and others.
- Demonstrated skills with PC office applications such as MS Word, Excel and Power Point.
Computer Skills :
- Demonstrated skills with Microsoft office suite.
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and peripheral vision.
Summary
Operates as a Business Partner to the General Manager, Red Metals. Accountable to lead, develop and manage direct labor across the Melt and Finishing Departments. Delivers sustained manufacturing results consistent with production schedules, customer requirements and business plan. Ensures that the right people are in place to support manufacturing. Directly accountable for operations which ensure worker safety, compliance with environmental regulations and integration with the company quality systems. Drives the continuous improvement of all operations through the implementation of process improvements, lean initiatives, and individual employee development.
Operations Manager – Corporate Office
Kymera International, with over 100 years of tradition in metal powder manufacturing, operates production facilities and sales offices with technical consultancy in 10 countries on four continents. Offering a variety of specialty alloys, including aluminum, copper, tin, and zinc, the product portfolio includes powders, pastes, ingots, and granules used in aerospace, chemical, automotive industries, and various industrial applications.
Work Location: In Person
Kymera International Headquarters
2601 Weck Dr
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27703
www.kymerainternational.com
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure adherence to safety policies, procedures, and PPE requirements.
- Actively promote safety awareness and continuous improvement through observation and team input.
- Notify appropriate management of work injuries, perform incident or accident investigations, and complete appropriate reports.
- Member of Safety Committee.
- Drive the quality objectives of the plant by ensuring the product meets customer and internal requirements through product and process inspections.
- Facilitate and perform equipment set-up or adjustments when required.
- Troubleshoot operational and equipment problems to improve quality and efficiency.
- Owner of OEE management and improvements.
- Partners with Material Manager to review and update manufacturing routes in ERP system on a semi-annual basis.
- Facilitate and promote training to meet quality expectations by ensuring all employees are trained to perform their respective jobs including the purpose of the safety features of their specific machine, workstation controls, and tools and equipment.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive 30/60/90-day training program for all direct labor.
- Effectively directs hourly workforce using leadership skills to meet production goals and objectives. Issues discipline as required.
- Responsible for daily staffing requirements including reassignments, transfers or mandatory over requirements as needed.
- Review daily operational reports to communicate operational, manufacturing, maintenance issues and shift events to management team to prevent operational delays.
- Performs payroll and production system computer functions.
- Participate in continuous improvement and yield projects.
- Coach, lead, mentor and develop supervisors and other staff to achieve manufacturing objectives and to support individual employee development.
- Exercises the customary role of a manager to include but not be limited to work quality, work volume, work assignment, communications, positive reinforcement, performance review, performance management, wage and salary administration, safety, equal employment opportunity and, if needed, discipline.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned.
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