Manufacturing Manager

About Our Client

• Promotes, drives, and champions safety culture and employee engagement to eliminate injuries.
• Ensures manufacturing performance, volume and quality goals are met by utilizing efficient methods and maintaining appropriate staffing levels.
• Drafts and designs quantitative and strategic action plans and metrics that support the overall improvement of our Quality, Delivery and Service levels.
• Mentors and leads associates with a hands-on approach, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and accountability.
• Supports, leads, coordinates, and integrates operational support groups to develop and integrate tactical, and strategic planning for site and company objectives.
• Demonstrates strong formal problem-solving skills which drive root cause identification and permanent corrective actions on both internal and external defects.
• Demonstrates a willingness to innovate and drives for continual improvement.
• Develops, implements, and continuously optimizes training objectives, skill set building initiatives, schedules, and development metrics for subordinate positions.
• Closely monitors capacity and capability within the value stream; able to proactively identify bottlenecks and resource gaps within steps in the manufacturing process.
• Manages direct labor flexibility within the plant to support changing demands.
• Sets performance objective goals for direct reports that are consistent with and in support of Plant objectives. Manages direct reports with emphasis on accountability and effectiveness.
• Develops, implements, and continuously optimizes specific job cross training and labor shortage contingency plans within and across the value streams.
• Utilizes data and established metrics to decisively identify opportunities to improve processes.
• Presents information and data to all levels of the organization in a concise and effective manner.
• Provides operational support to the plant's leadership teams, and operational support resource teams.
• Leads change management and improvement initiatives in a manner that ensures employee engagement and understanding.
• Ensure policies and procedures are well understood and adhered to by all employees.
• Promotes, drives, and champions safety culture.
• Other duties may be assigned or required for the performance of this position.

MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

• Bachelor's degree in business or other job-related technical discipline.
• Minimum 7 years' supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Strategy Deployment and LEAN principles.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, train and develop skill sets for manufacturing supervision, manufacturing technical resources, and manufacturing production associates.
• Detailed oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong and effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgement, and ability to effectively influence decision-making.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills and communicates effectively at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner.
• Ability to work with great sense of urgency in a fast-paced organization with optimism.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and Oracle (ERP), SPC Programs, etc.
• Ability to travel between NH locations as needed.

• A competitive salary range of $110,000 - $150,000
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Work within a team of passionate and talented individuals.
• A culture that values innovation, quality, and collaboration.