Fabrication Production Manager in Valencia, California at ITT Aerospace Controls LLC

The Fabrication Manager – Machine Shop plays a critical role in driving performance, efficiency, and employee satisfaction by evaluating organizational processes and implementing improvements that enhance work quality and productivity. This role will be the leader of a machine shop with over 60 CNC machines (30 of which are unique) on a 200,000 square foot production floor.

Operations

• Leads fabrication operations so that production and budgetary goals are consistently met. Over sees and monitors operations to ensure production schedules are met, and quality standards are maintained.

• Determines equipment availability and capabilities to efficiently schedule, coordinate and move fab orders through the facility. Responsible for coordinating shop activities.

• Build production schedules and estimate delivery for order fulfillment to meet the operational targets of the factory

• Assess machine resources to maintain continuous production and reduce downtime

• Lead and drive the team to continuously meet the performance standard of operation – KPI’s, including Quality, On-Time Delivery, Cost, Safety, etc.

• Generate production Capacity Requirement Planning (CRP) according to the demand forecast and generate production resource requirement plan to include labor, equipment, fixtures, tools and sub-materials, etc. to support the CRP

Financial

• Financial performance ownership – drive earned hours, improve productivity per employee, and maximize machine capacity utilization to ensure efficient operations and strong overall performance.

• Identify potential problems and points of friction and working to find solutions to maximize efficiency and revenue

Leadership

• Encourage, support, and provide guidance to production staff

• Inspire and motivate employees to perform at their best through positive encouragement and incentive initiatives

• Produce a Performance Management Process across area of responsibility for effectiveness, timeliness, and expected outcomes for overall business strategies and goals

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives on production flow and resource alignment, process efficiency and effectiveness by using LEAN manufacturing & Six Sigma principles

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Operations/Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience

• 7+ years manufacturing operations experience to include 2+ years demonstrated supervisory responsibility

• Must have knowledge of methods, practices, tools and materials used in cnc machining and cnc programming.

• Ability to coach and motivate employees

• Experienced in designing and implementing continuous flow lines, line balancing, and other related production optimization techniques to include application of Lean manufacturing principles

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