Job description
- Manage daily production operations through the Production Manager, production supervisors and/or production teams to maximize production inefficiencies including volume of product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, downtime, and slowdown while producing high quality product in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood and consistently met.
- Manage daily maintenance operations through the Maintenance Manager, supervisors and planner. Establish work practices that optimize machine availability while balancing costs. Direct activities through the maintenance supervisors and planner to achieve maximum machine utilization and reliability. Establish and implement best practices including preventative measures that continuously improve machine performance. Approve all purchases of storeroom parts and maintenance services.
- Build the team for succession planning for upcoming retirements and bench strength for turnover
- Meet daily production schedule and requirements, Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure appropriate inventory mix is available, while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands.
- Develop, implement and track compliance to production and maintenance department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide both production and maintenance supervision to achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost.
- Ensure that production crews and maintenance techs are well trained, involved and committed to meeting production, quality and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery complies with all outside regulatory agency requirements and that employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements.
- Provide leadership and direction to the production and maintenance departments. Responsible for maintaining an environment for good employee relations to prevent any union organizing attempts. Work closely with human resources and supervisors to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in the hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance.
- Manage production and maintenance department efforts supporting capital projects. Work with engineering manager and project engineers to define production and maintenance needs for capital reduce outside contractor costs. Manage production team efforts to perform raw material and other process trials in conjunction with process engineering department.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical preferred) or Bachelor’s of Science in another discipline that is coupled with extensive manufacturing experience.
- A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated manufacturing management
- Experience in high volume manufacturing operation, preferably continuous web process.
- We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.
- Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.
- Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence.
- Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.
- We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.
About GAF
CEO: John Altmeyer
Revenue: $1 to $5 billion (USD)
Size: 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type: Subsidiary or Business Segment
Website: http://www.gaf.com
Year Founded: 1886