Manufacturing Manager jobs in Texas

The Finishing Manager is accountable for leading and managing the effective day-to-day activities of the assigned crews at the plant while ensuring daily excellence so that results are achieved in safety, quality, scrap, downtime, cost, and efficiency.  This person will be responsible for coordinating activities with other supervisors to ensure consistency across shifts and plants.  Will lead continuous assessment, provide feedback, and development of employees toward higher levels of individual and group performance.  Additional responsibilities include conducting regular meetings to discuss business information, plant performance vs. goals, issues, and concerns with crews, and ensuring that the execution of work is consistent with the plant's goals.

Essential Functions and Duties  

• Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports the company’s Production Control Management System.
• Develops and recommends improvements of department, equipment, or procedures to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Responsible for directing, scheduling, and prioritizing department production activities to attain 100% schedule completion with acceptable quality.
• Build quality into all aspects of work by maintaining compliance with all quality requirements.
• Responsible for quality control inspection plans and logs.
• Responsible for managing the daily material usage to ensure budgeted costs are attained.
• Responsible for enforcing a preventative maintenance program on all department machinery.
• Responsible for developing, training, accountability, and management of hourly employees.
• Responsible for ensuring that all required production paperwork is properly filled out and submitted on a daily basis.
• Responsible for department schedule to include workstation assignments, employee training, employee vacations, employee breaks, overtime assignment, back-up for absent employees and department rotations.
• Responsible for achieving production schedule attainments.
• Coordinate production startups, shutdowns, and changeovers.
• Schedule and conduct department meetings.
• Manage special projects as assigned by management.
• Additional duties as deemed necessary.

Specific Safety Responsibilities

• Set and communicate the safety and health standard for the crew. 
• Drive safety and health performance improvement in the organization and are supervised through the deployment of the company’s EHS Plan.
• Drive the permanent elimination of the unsafe actions of people and unsafe conditions by conducting effective touch audits; coaching in the safety aspects of all jobs supervised; conducting safety crew meetings; establishing safety ownership in all jobs and areas supervised; ensuring that personal risk assessment is continuously practiced by everyone in the organization; conducting audits and inspections as necessary to ensure safety process effectiveness. 
• Hold employees and others who may enter the area supervised accountable to comply with all safety requirements, including those listed in all Job Safety Analyses.
• Ensure that employees have the necessary safety skills by ensuring that the required safety training is completed.
• Ensure that all machine safeguards and other safeguards and exposure controls are in place and functional and that safety equipment (including PPE) and tools are provided.
• Conduct safe shift planning, for each shift.

Education and Experience

• 5 years of experience in paint or wood finishing is preferred.

• 5 years of plant manufacturing experience is required.
• 5 years of lean manufacturing experience preferred.
• 5 years of experience in production supervision required.

• High School Diploma or G.E.D required. 
• Bachelor's Degree helpful but not required. 
• Advanced team problem-solving skills and strong oral communication skills are needed.

• Ability to plan production schedules to maximize efficiency and clear communication with each shift.
• Understanding the setting of requirements and the customer-supplier relationship.
• Share operating knowledge and capability to enhance workers’ ability to operate the line.
• Must have a thorough understanding of manufacturing systems and processes.
• Experience supervising a group size of 20 to 50 employees.
• Must be able to manage, communicate and develop subordinate employees.
• Proficiency in various software programs including MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Must be able to perform basic math skills.
• Must have a strong sense of urgency in completing assigned daily duties and hourly goals.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English is highly desirable.
• Woodworking or cabinetry experience preferred, but not required.

 Physical Requirements and/or Working Conditions

• Enclosed but not air-conditioned or heated factory environment. Will include long hours of standing, some heavy lifting, and areas where eye protection, hearing protection and respirators are required.

• Must be able to physically perform daily tasks, including lifting objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Selected candidate must be able to work a 10-to-12-hour shift, Monday through Friday with occasional Saturday as business mandates. 

AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Leedo Manufacturing CO., L.P. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, military and veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other legally-protected characteristic; and it will comply with all applicable state, federal, and municipal discrimination laws. No person will be denied employment solely because of a disability, provided that the person can perform the essential functions of the position for which the person has applied, either with or without reasonable accommodations.