Manufacturing Engineer

Title - Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Dublin, VA - Onsite

Position Summary

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination

Manage staffing needs daily

Payroll and time keeping

Performance management

Lead and manage safety activities

Daily management of quality checks

Daily team meetings

Process Improvement initiatives and efforts

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Preferred Associate Degree or higher

Required 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role

Preferred 3 to 5 years' experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment.

Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power BI

Preferred Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification

Principal Duties and Accountabilities (*Essential Functions)

Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area

Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinate teams (direct staff & support functions) and approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner for meeting Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee's ideas and suggestions

Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same

Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline

Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement. Advanced ability to apply various Lean Manufacturing tools

Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving

LEADERSHIP AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Strong interpersonal, leadership, time management, planning, organizational, and analytical skills with proven results

Integrity - Ensures both consistency of and compliance with company and departmental policies/procedures and performance standards. Implements operational plans to achieve designated objectives, established performance goals and quality standards.

Ability to analyze procedures, routine reports, and correspondence with a strong attention to detail

Identifies, reports and communicates to the Department Manager trends and/or irregularities. Takes a proactive approach to analyzing deficiencies and develops plans to correct. Recommends and implements solutions by involving team in problem solving to obtain the best results

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Strong problem solving and driving for Results, Priority setting and decision making. Ability to make good, rapid decisions in a face paced environment.

Foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with the operational stakeholders.

Leads the team in creating an atmosphere that enables dialog and commitments that promote a continuous improvement mindset and has a favorable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the site through accuracy measurements.

Self-awareness: knows personal strengths, weaknesses and limits. Gains insights from mistakes and is open to criticism.

Able to have developmental conversations with direct reports.

Demonstrates emotional intelligence.