Director of Operations at L2x Talent Solutions Director of Operations at L2x Talent Solutions in Addison, Illinois Posted in 39 minutes ago.

Type:

full-time

• Contribute to the strategic planning process of developing and implementing operations strategy
• Ensure fabrication teams operational performance metrics meet or exceed the IMS-EP objectives
• Conduct weekly GEMBA meeting with Zone teams to communicate daily performance, discuss close calls and remind employees of proper procedures
• Review daily fabrication shop production schedules and create team plans accordingly
• Conduct meetings with all lead persons to discuss plan of action
• Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to employees and assign duties
• Execute plan and monitor progress while providing expertise and assistance in areas needed to ensure successful completion of weekly production demands
• Develop, train, provide effective supervision and motivate hourly fabrication team
• Identify opportunities for cross training and capacity training in order to enhance capacity and responsiveness to customer requirements
• Ensure short throughput time and optimize production team based on fluctuating production demands
• Develops and recommends improvements of facility, equipment, or procedures to improve safety, quality, and efficiency
• Overall capacity planning, allocation of reserve capacity, identification of planned shutdowns and allocation of down-time for maintenance
• Reviews and analyzes production, quality, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, and operating or production problems
• Consults with engineering team relative to modification of machines and equipment in order to improve production or quality of products
• Recommends, implements and monitors changes required to ensure consistent hours per unit
• Monitor prototype project timeliness and expenditures on a per project basis to meet deadlines
• Work with Quality Control to establish a self-auditing process to check parts for conformance to print
• Manage and direct team and work with HR to address employee issues as they arise
• Manage disciplinary and progress reviews process
• Enforce and monitor all company policies
• Ensures health and safety guidelines set by the company
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience
• 8+ years of experience in sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of sheet metal/fabrication manufacturing processes including, milling, forming, turrets, punch press, laser cutting/marking, welding, grinding and paint application
• 5+ years of management/supervisory experience in a fabrication or manufacturing environment
• Experience managing low-volume, high-mix fabrication operations with significant schedule variability
• Experience communicating production schedules, commitments and potential issues with customers and internal teams
• Experience leading Managers, Leads and hourly manufacturing personnel