Fabrication Manager

Directs and coordinates activities of Fabrication department in processing materials or manufacturing products in industrial organization by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

What you will be responsible for:

• Determine work procedures, prepare work schedules, and expedite workflow within the Fabrication department
• Issue written and oral instructions.
• Assign duties and examine work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Study and standardize procedures to improve efficiency of workers.
• Maintain harmony among workers and resolve grievances.
• Confer with other managers in the shop to ensure coordination of other functions such as production, inventory management and quality assurance.
• Manage policy deployment in the areas of Lean Manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls and plant performance measures.
• Manage the activities of the department, under the direction of the V.P. of Operations and follow established procedures and approved processes.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate departmental activities to fulfill sales orders, meet inventory requirements, and to meet delivery dates.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
• Knowledge of all manufacturing methods, techniques, and related equipment.
• Must be able to read and interpret drawings and specifications.
• Regularly communicate with maintenance staff about repair and maintenance needs on all equipment in the department.
• Ensure that proper safety and incident reporting procedures are followed; bring problems to the attention of the Safety Manager/Technician or HR Manager.
• Manage material requirements to increase inventory turns and reduce levels on hand.
• Provide leadership for problem resolution to facilitate fast improvements and improved working relationships.
• Identify, communicate and drive implementation of capital investments and improvement projects.
• Identify employees’ skills and develop them by coaching and counseling employees on a regular basis.
• Conduct annual performance review and provide continual feedback on both positive and negative performance.
• Conduct weekly safety meetings.
• Monitor quality of work performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Plan.
• Plan for the number of people required per position in accordance with the budget.
• Responsible to managing the department’s budget, including the putting together of the department’s budget and monitoring the results each month during the budget year.
• Regular attendance, ability to arrive at work punctually, ability to work on–site.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others, ability to deal respectfully with the public, customers, vendors, other employees, managers, and executive management.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, ability to interchange with others in the department.

Supervisor Responsibilities: 

• Ability to supervise 80 to 125 non-exempt employees. Carry out supervisory responsibilities, procedures and applicable laws. Responsibilities will include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Directing employees’ work; setting and adjusting rates of pay and hours of work of employees; planning and controlling the budget for department; providing for the safety of the employees; planning the work; determining the techniques to be used; apportioning the work among the workers.

COMPETENCY OR POSITION REQUIREMENTS (knowledge, skills, and abilities)

• Personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (required levels)

• BS in Manufacturing or a related field or minimum 10 years in general management experience in a serial fabrication environment required

   

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