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Assistant Plant Manager

Job Details

Purpose of Role

Condair is seeking an Assistant Plant Manager who can join our team and help shape the future of our organization. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills and love working in a fast-paced environment. We are seeking someone who can learn our products and be able to lead a team.

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As an Assistant Plant Manager, you will be responsible for managing three distinct production floor areas to assure that proper safety, quality and production KPI’s are met during Evening shift production. The Assistant Plant Manager will be required to manage and coordinate broad processes across different departments and functional teams. This role will maintain the company culture, values and strategies by leading their teams in change efforts, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement initiatives, safety awareness, and fostering team and individual development. This position reports directly to the Plant Manager.

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Requirements, Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 

  • Responsible for maintaining a safe and secure work environment. This includes educating employees on hazard identification, correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating safety meetings, performing safety inspections, investigating incidents, and driving corrective actions to completion.

  • Manages all aspects of personnel performance within the plant on evening shift

  • Ensures that job expectations, duties, responsibilities, authority, and accountability of all direct subordinates are defined and understood

  • Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with policies and applicable laws including staffing, training, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints, investigating issues, and resolving problems

  • Creates and implements plans to address skills gaps and provide training and development for direct reports to address department, individual, and business needs

  • Handles sensitive and proprietary information in a confidential manner

  • Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, accomplishing work results, and reporting results on shift production summaries

  • Responsible for managing quality production and charged with collaborating with others to drive product related quality issues to resolution

  • Encourages and promotes a plant culture of Continuous Improvement and Employee Involvement and Lean Manufacturing

  • Fosters a spirit of cooperation within and between departments

  • Leads continuous improvement activities, including 5S, visual workplace, cost and waste reductions

  • Enforces company systems, standards, policies, and procedures and ensures consistency across shifts of operation

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Professional Skills, Qualifications, and Competencies:

  • Education and Experience:

    • 4+ years’ experience leading teams in a manufacturing environment

    • Bachelor’s degree preferred

  • Communication Skills: 

    • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work cross-functionally with other departments

  • Reasoning Ability:

    • Demonstrated leadership, drive, and potential to assume higher levels of responsibility

    • Accomplished in meeting production schedules, controlling, and improving production efficiency

    • Proven strong organizational (prioritization and time management), problem-solving, and analytical skills

  • Computer Skills:

    • Strong computer skills including knowledge and experience with: Manufacturing software/ERP, MS Office applications, including Excel and Word

  • Certificates/Licenses:

    • Experienced in Lean implementation, team building, quality control and assurance

    • Demonstrated leadership ability to affect change, consistently drive results, and influence all levels of the organization

  • Other:

    • Experienced in managing greater than 100 FTE’s

    • Ability to react with urgency to achieve objectives and deadlines despite obstacles and time pressures

    • General understanding of manufacturing business principles and typical business practices

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Benefits:

  • Medical benefits 

  • Dental benefits 

  • Vision benefits 

  • Long-term disability insurance 

  • Short-term disability insurance 

  • Life insurance/AD&D 

  • 401K 

  • Paid vacation 

  • Paid sick leave 

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Personal Characteristics

Teamwork

  • Balances team and individual responsibilities

  • Exhibits objectivity and openness to other’s views

  • Gives and welcomes feedback

  • Offers to help others to achieve common goals
     

Drive

  • Exhibits a drive to do all work required to achieve success

  • Aims to do the right thing without being told

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Ethics

  • Works with integrity and strong morals/ethics 

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Professionalism

  • Approaches others in a tactful manner

  • Reacts well under pressure and follows through on commitments

  • Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their position

  • Accepts responsibility for own actions and asks for help when needed
     

Safety

  • Observes safety and security procedures

  • Uses equipment and materials properly and as instructed

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Dependability

  • Is consistently at work and on time and completes work in a timely manner

  • Able to deal with change, delays, and unexpected events

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No Unauthorized Referrals from Recruiters & Vendors

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We are an equal opportunity employer.

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