Senior Operations Manager - Mativ
Brownville, NY
About the Job
Support a culture of continuous improvement in Safety
- Accountable and responsible for safety successes/failures in the facility.
- Personally, engage in safety that supports employee value and care, and ensure direct reports meet the same expectation.
- Manage the value and performance of Leading Safety Metrics through coaching and support, showing continuous improvement in defined metrics.
- Ensure all state and federal requirements for employee safety knowledge and training are met annually.
- Utilize non-routine work permitting and hazard identification/risk analysis (HIRA) to drive proactive improvement.
- Drive daily risk reduction by embracing job safety analysis, workplace exposure assessments and pre task risk assessments.
Ensure compliance with quality standards
- Accountable and responsible for quality performance of the assets.
- Ensure asset team executes in a planned manner on CARs initiated by the Technical/Quality Leader
- Ensure fact finding investigation with corrective action for all customer complaints and significant nonconformances.
- Achieve long-term converting advantage for the business.
- Ensure operational risk assessment and remediation is a daily activity.
- Develop specific annual strategies to improve yield, uptime, and labor efficiency.
Operating System methods for execution
- Leverage data acquisition system to lead asset performance improvement.
- Utilize asset-based teams to drive engagement and individual success.
- All completed organic and capital cost savings projects are managed to execution standards and audited for compliance to control plan on a monthly basis.
- Leverage data acquisition systems to define employee’s controllable metrics (i.e., loss per job, speed compliance, conformance to plan) and ensure reporting in Operations Meetings and communication to crews daily.
- Loss events follow documented protocol for fact finding and full, documented investigation within 72 hours:
- Any major process loss over $10,000.
- Equipment delay (over 4 hours)
- Support capital spending to sustain operations, support strategic initiatives and reduce costs while meeting financial expectations.
- Lead facility Operations Team in developing, prioritizing, and managing the execution of cost savings initiatives for the facility.
- Achieve targeting cost savings results through urgent execution of organic and capital project execution.
Enhance Organizational Development
- Manage with a high level of balanced accountability for yourself, direct reports, and hourly workforce.
- Ensure asset leadership resources are focused on strategic asset performance management and operational execution (not Supervisory or Administrative duties)
- Development direct reports and align skills (strategic thinking, project management, leadership) to drive high achievement and accountability through training and succession planning.
- Drive hourly employee development and engagement in key initiatives around safety and cost improvement.
- Participate in cross functional teams to share best practices and improve performance of all assets.
Cost
- Adhere to facility operating budgets.
- Work Order Variance and OH Variances and perform at standard cost.
- Develop a robust pipeline of cost saving projects for both facilities for year over year improvement.
- Maintain 5-year capital plan and adhere to capital budget.
qualifications:
- A BA degree desired in engineering; paper science preferred.
- Candidate must have papermaking fundamentals.
- Preference is 7-10 years’ experience in paper manufacturing facility.
- A track record of proven performance/consistently meeting objectives, and leading or supporting safety programs in a manufacturing environment is a must.
- Experience with customer interactions; ideally collaborating with others to help define needs, identify solutions, and resolve problems.
- Supervisory experience preferred.
- Understanding of activities and procedures required for efficient and quality work completion.
- Understanding overhead variable and fixed operating costs.
- Strong computer skills including, but not limited to a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word. Experience with Oracle is helpful.
- Strong leadership and communication skills and ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced production setting.
Competencies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail oriented.
- Self-motivated, ability to work independently and with a team.
- Ability to lift to 60 – 70 lbs. with assistance.
- Ability to multi-task.
Compensation
- $140,000-$150,000 plus annual bonus opportunity
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Source : Mativ