Milacron is looking for a Machine Operations Manager to join our team in Batavia, Ohio. In this position, you will be responsible for leading hourly employees in a fast-paced, lean manufacturing environment, ensuring the effective use of people and resources to achieve departmental financial and operational goals.
Work You’ll Do:
- Lead, coach, and develop hourly employees while promoting effective employee relations and accountability.
- Manage daily production activities, including work scheduling, quality, staffing, timekeeping, absenteeism, and coordination with other supervisors and managers to meet production schedules.
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles to sustainably maximize customer value and drive continuous improvement.
- Drive improvements across quality, safety, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.
- Develop and implement manufacturing methods and quality standards and perform cost analysis to improve staff and facility utilization.
- Own employee training and technical development, including performance reviews, frequent feedback, and the establishment of goals and objectives.
- Identify and implement improvement opportunities using relevant data, systematic problem-solving, and effective decision-making.
- Resolve issues involving materials, operations, quality, or other factors that could result in production delays.
- Partner with engineering teams on part design, process development, and manufacturing process improvements.
- Manage departmental performance measures and visual controls, provide progress updates to management, and balance quality, productivity, cost, safety, and employee morale.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent with 4–5 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and business and financial understanding.
- Ability to resolve conflicts and provide effective feedback.
- Solid computer and presentation skills.
- Knowledge and practical experience with Lean manufacturing principles and MRP.
- Experience with constraint management, ISO, systematic problem-solving, and BBS.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field preferred.
- Manufacturing environment experience preferred.
- Lean Manufacturing background within a plant and operational management experience in a production or manufacturing setting preferred.