SUMMARY

The Director of Operations is responsible for leading, inspiring, and motivating the production, shipping, and maintenance teams for our metal fabrication business. He/she models and supports our company culture and values, develops valued career paths for our employees, and ensures the operation functions in a safe, quality-focused manner to provide on-time delivery to our valued partners in the most cost-efficient, Lean manner. The Director of Operations works alongside Purchasing, Engineering, and Quality to support Customer Service, Estimating, and Sales in accurately and quickly responding to our customers. This position passionately supports manufacturing “COOL” products, employee development, and STEM education within GenMet and the broader community.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in supply chain, engineering, or business preferred. 2 year degree in related field required.
• Minimum of 3 years of management experience and 5 years manufacturing experience
• Display passion and energy. Empowers and facilitates team.
• Success using quality and continuous improvement methodologies to track, analyze, report and improve results
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience
• Well organized, attention to detail and self-directed to complete tasks in a timely manner
• Effectively communicates internally and externally to gather information, ask questions, develop alternatives, make recommendations, explain decisions, and pursue actions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Solidworks, and databases.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to safely and successfully perform the job functions
• Must be able to travel locally 5-10% of the time
• Must be able to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 Lbs.
  Superior Safety, Quality and On Time Delivery Supported by Employee Led Continuous Improvement and State of the Art Technology Resulting in Profitable, Long Term Relationships.
  GenMet is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. GenMet will provide equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
  Job Type: Full-time
  Pay: $97,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In perso

• Lead, model, and promote a culture of honesty, integrity, teamwork, responsibility, adaptability, continuous learning and improvement.
• Plan, prioritize, lead, support, develop, hire, onboard and evaluate production, shipping and maintenance leads and team members to meet or exceed customer expectations utilizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely (SMART) goals.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment that exceeds companies with similar operations by adhering to established practices and policies (company, federal, state and region), performing regular audits and implementing improvements.
• Adhere to quality standards and processes and recommend revisions for on-going success. Proactively resolve corrective actions, non-conforming products and deviations.
• Meet or exceed 95% On-Time Delivery to customers by managing and prioritizing capacity and continually striving to reduce lead time.
• Manage and reduce costs through productivity and efficiency improvement and expense management.
• Maintain inventory accuracy, ensure team reports material use for job costing and inventory replenishment.
• Review daily time reporting accuracy.
• Encourage “Yellow Sheet” or continuous improvement submittals by team and support completion.
• Implement continuous improvement methodologies – LEAN, 5S, Six Sigma, etc.
• Support capital equipment, new tooling, replacement equipment and tooling and maintenance activities.
• Maximize equipment uptime and utilization through proactive preventative maintenance and repair.
• Support compliance with ISO9001, ITAR, OSHA, DNR and other applicable industry standards.
• Perform other duties as needed.