Manufacturing Manager

Become part of the WernerCo team!

WHY WERNER? BECAUSE WE ARE THE PRO'S CHOICE!  You will find our market leading products and brands on trucks and job sites all over the world.  Our team is focused on building relationships, insights, category analysis, and ultimately servicing our customer. On jobsites across America and the world, WernerCo brands are most preferred.

Purpose of the Job:

Manage operations for the department, execute department goals and achieve desired results. Lead and empower team to improve the following core metrics with a sense of urgency and ownership using data driven methods based on lean

Manufacturing philosophy: A. Safety B. Efficiency C. Productivity D. Setup reduction E. Delivery F. Cost of quality (scrap, RGA's, rework) G. 5S scores

Key Responsibilities (Essential Job Functions):

• Develops, implements, and monitors department budgets; manages expenses within approved budget constraints
• Design, develop, and implement processes that increase throughput, reduce cost, and/or improve quality for all manufacturing.
• Maintains knowledge of department manufacturing capacity and develops solutions for efficient utilization. Schedule Management: Schedule and allocate plant resources to complete production requirements as planned and scheduled.
• Ensures all safety rules and government regulations are followed; including but not limited to development of and training on safety processes. Personally investigates or oversees the investigation of accidents in a timely, accurate, and complete manner.
• Ensures that employees have the required safety training and are consistently working in a safe manner; coordinates, develops and implements safety processes to reduce accidents and injuries. Drive safety improvements through rigorous STOP audits and follow-up.
• Drives lean culture in manufacturing using principles of Lean manufacturing (TPS, WCM OR 6 sigma). Works to achieve visual factory with visible flow and effective communication.
• Ensures approved manufacturing best practices, work instructions, control plans and methodologies are being followed.
• Provides leadership cultivating an employee environment of trust, teamwork, accountability, self-confidence, problem solving and business ownership.
• Reviews, analyzes, modifies, and implements effective and efficient manufacturing processes, policies, and procedures.
• Plans, organizes, and directs production activities to meet or exceed established production schedules and goals in a cost-effective manner and interfaces with others department managers to control operating costs.
• Leads root cause analysis efforts to address challenges including product quality, equipment downtime and gaps to goals.
• Interfaces with Quality personnel to ensure Built in quality process is attained and develop new and better-quality methods. Coordinates with managers and supervisors to establish production and quality control standards.
• Communications: Support development and delivery of division communication plans. Ensure key metrics and progress is regularly communicated using visual techniques. Maintain strong relationships with marketing and engineering.
• Benchmark: Visit other Werner Co. facilities and other companies and benchmark against the best.

Experience & Education:

• Undergraduate degree, technical required
• MBA desired, but not mandatory.
• Two to five years’ experience in operations function as a supervisor.

Key Competencies:

• Adaptability
  • Decisiveness
  • Emotional Composure
  • Learning
• Expressive Relationships
  • Communications
  • Instructiveness
• Problem Solving
  • Closure
  • Communications
• Work Effectiveness
  • Closure
  • Concentration
  • Listening
• Mechanical aptitude
• Strong quantitative skills
• Financial competency
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with groups across disciplines.
• Self-starter with high energy level.