General Manager

Value Tool & Engineering, Inc • Full-time • Palm City, FL, US • $85k - $95k / year • 2m ago

A General Manager ensures that manufacturing equipment and tools function properly and increase an organization’s efficiencies. Their duties include building production schedules, making sure production processes stay within budgets and deadlines and reviewing the productivity of an organization’s manufacturing equipment.

1. Lead reliability, compliance, quality, and safety programs; Ensure that required government and environmental regulations are met;

2. Responsible for organizing the formulation, implementation, inspection, supervision, and control of various management systems of the production department;

3. Prepare and conduct team meetings as required to achieve proper communication and development of the team;

4. Ensure that personnel are fully trained, committed to and operate in accordance with all aspects of safety and quality systems and requirements. Coordinate all quality and safety training for employees and maintain required records;

5. Evaluate performance against production targets and adjust resource allocation as needed to optimize the quality and cost efficiency of operations. Identify problems in production process and guide improvement plan, shift scheduling, overtime level, training, etc. to plant management. Report all activities;

6. Responsible for the implementation of production plan, grasp the production schedule to ensure the normal operation of production; Responsible for maintaining sufficient production and distribution supplies inventory to meet the company's supply needs, complete the production tasks assigned by the company in quality, quantity and on time;

7. Manage and upgrade equipment and product quality problems, responsible for the maintenance and repair of production equipment and measuring instruments, organize regularly. Repair and maintain, improve the completion rate and utilization rate of equipment; Find problems timely organization to solve and deal, report major problems directly;

8. Responsible for the formulation and implementation of production labor a, consumption, and labor discipline;

9. Lead 6S and lean projects and constantly identify ways to reduce plant operating costs. Responsible for reasonable arrangement of overtime hours of each department, improve manufacturing methods, improve production efficiency, reduce production cost;

10. Manages direct reports and assigns work to staff as needed. Provides coaching and training, and responsible for performance evaluation monitoring and tracking procurement to ensure operating costs are within budget;

11. Responsible for new product testing, new technology, new equipment production application, optimize production cost;

12. Responsible for the management and analysis of production data base;

13. Responsible for coordination among departments;

14. Work with plant manager to set strategic goals and vision for the plant;

15. Other duties assigned by the company.

· Requires a high school diploma/Apprenticeship or other formal Education

· Experience in mechanical manufacturing and processing technology is required

· At least 5 years working experience in a manufacturing plant is required

· At least 2 years’ experience in staff management and development is preferred

· At least 2 years supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment preferred

· Good written and verbal communication skills

· Good computer skills: including Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word