Location
Wetumpka AL
Industry
manufacturing

Assistant Plant Manager

ASSISTANT PLANT MANAGER (NIGHT SHIFT: 5 10-hour shifts)
MONTGOMERY, AL

Summary: The position requires metal fabrication or powder coating experience. Previous production management experience is required.

Essential Duties:

  • Strategically achieve results by establishing priorities, communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees, and initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
  • Coaches supervisors to develop and sustain a positive work environment.
  • Maintains quality of staff by hiring, training, developing, and mentoring employees to ensure maximum performance.
  • Provides creative leadership and direction to employees to improve operating efficiencies and ensuring safety, quality, and productivity.
  • Manages work flow by monitoring steps of the process, setting process variables, observing control points and equipment, monitoring personnel, and developing reporting procedures and systems.
  • Must be able to read and analyze blueprints for production orders.
  • Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements to evaluate estimates and outputs.
  • Timely complete and report administration duties which include time and attendance system, holiday/vacation planning, production reports, back order reviews, past due lists, and safety violations/concerns.
  • Review and distribute production, work, cycle counts and shipment schedules.
  • Confer with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates.

Education, Skills Needed, and Physical Demands:

  • Bachelor’s degree required (engineering, business, management, logistics preferred)
  • Metal fabrication or powder coating experience required
  • At least 7 years of experience in assembly manufacturing leadership role preferred
  • Working knowledge of Lean processes preferred
  • Outstanding communication skills (verbal and writing).
  • Organized, strong time management skills, deadline, and detail-oriented.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a team.
  • Positive attitude and action oriented.
  • Majority of time will be spent in a shop floor environment with extreme hot and cold temperatures fluctuating based on weather temperatures.

GREAT COMPANY, COMPETITIVE STARTING SALARY + BENEFITS!