Plant Operations Manager in HOUSTON, Texas at Merchants Metals LLC

POSITION SUMMARY:

Lead a team of 140+ production employees in the manufacturing of goods in the Houston plant. Maintain a safe work environment while leading the team to deliver a high-quality product, on time, with best in industry costs! This is a 24/7 operation.

The Houston plant has safety, quality, materials, maintenance, and HR supporting functions. It is the responsibility of these functions to develop & improve processes that support a more optimal production process. It is the responsibility of the production/operations team to lead people and execute the processes defined by the supporting functions and to deliver on the established metrics.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Directly Reports to: Plant Manager

Direct Reports: 2nd Shift Production Superintendent & Production Supervisors (6)

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership (50% of time):

• Building relationships
• Communicating and aligning team to vision
• Setting goals and objectives & regular performance management
• Career/personal development of team
• Recognition/appreciation
• Disciplinary action
• Weekly 1 on 1’s
• Develop supervisors into excellent leaders: so they do all the things above and spend most of their time on people as well

Responsibilities/Duties:

People

• Promote a culture of trust, integrity, care within the plant
• Resource planning: Set appropriate staffing levels and coordinate with HR to fill/maintain positions
• Responsible for turnover metric within production team

Safety

• Create & maintain a safe work environment
• Comply with environmental standards set by the safety team

Quality

• Ensure products meet quality standards defined by quality department
• ASTM/Industry standards
• Process CTQs

Oversee all production processes

• Monitor production to resolve issues – hold supporting functions accountable to action when needed
• Develop, implement, and lead daily operating rhythms (MDI). Ensure Daily meetings between supervisors and each department, daily cross functional shift meetings, support at plant staff meetings.

Participate in plant strategy development – establish a team, structure, processes that will support plant/business metrics

• Participate in annual budget process
• Own productivity & OT metrics
• Own adherence to schedule metrics
• Own production consumables & supplies budget
• Report/Present to upper management

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Deep knowledge of production management
• Previous experience managing teams of 100 or more
• Understanding of quality standards and health & safety regulations
• Knowledge of performance evaluation and budgeting concepts
• Experience in reporting on key production metrics
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Strong people skills with an outgoing, friendly, and positive attitude
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational, management and leadership skills
• Able to oversee multiple competing tasks and priorities and perform quality work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Outstanding communication ability
• Strong decision-making skills and a data/results-driven approach; attention to detail

REQUIRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in production, manufacturing operations, or other related fields
• Knowledge of production tools and equipment
• Knowledge of principles, concepts, theories, and practices of area of responsibility, (Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma)
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred