ABOUT OUR CLIENT:

Our client is headquartered out of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and has various manufacturing plants in the Southeastern United States. MP's Client manufactures and distributes proven solutions that help you thrive in a competitive environment while enhancing the natural environment of the sites you serve. It's their mission to consistently help customers establish sustainable green space through water and soil management and plant establishment. They accomplish this by bringing our knowledgeable people, proven products, groundbreaking technology, and personal services on-site to holistically meet real world applications-assuring success on every job.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Lead day-to-day operations for your shift, and develop culture by spending 75% of time on floor leading associates
• Train, develop, and lead associates to meet operational KPIs.
• Work to identify and reduce/eliminate sources of scrap/defects from the process. Including minimizing sources of waste.
• Drive workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules to maximize efficiency.
• Develop long-and short-term plans pertaining to staff, equipment, and maintenance project needs.
• Submit reports on performance and progress with a plan to address gaps to performance.
• Maintain quality of all products and prepare appropriate budgets/reports to be submitted to management in order to ensure optimal level of profitability for the plant.
• Identify issues in efficiency and suggest improvements.
• Enforce safety guidelines and company policies and standards including preventative maintenance on all equipment.
• Maintain optimal quality of all products and recommend improvements to production.
• Manage inventory of all plant supplies.
• Submit requests for repair and modification of plant equipment and systems; determine the cause(s) of malfunctions, the extensiveness of repair needs, and the procedures for corrective actions.
• Maintain compliance with all local, state, and federal safety regulations.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in manufacturing or equivalent experience.
• 3 years leadership experience managing people
• 1-year heavy industrial experience
• OSHA experience preferred
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Dropbox

ADDITIONAL INFORTMATION:

• Location: Conover, NC
• Exempt/full-time