Job Summary:
Responsible for leading all production operations within the EMV manufacturing department, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality output. Accountable for achieving departmental KPIs in safety, scrap reduction, productivity, on-time delivery, and cost control, while developing a high-performing operations team. Drives performance through Lean manufacturing, KPI management, and strong team leadership. Partners with maintenance to ensure equipment uptime and availability.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational Leadership
- Lead daily EMV production operations to meet output, quality, and delivery targets.
- Execute production schedules and ensure alignment with customer requirements and inventory accuracy.
- Monitor and improve KPIs: safety, scrap, efficiency, throughput, cost.
- Collaborate with maintenance to ensure equipment uptime and rapid issue resolution.
Quality and Continuous Improvement
- Reduce scrap and rework through root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with EMV, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Implement Lean manufacturing, standard work, and process optimization initiatives.
Cost & Performance Management
- Manage departmental budget and drive cost-reduction initiatives.
- Provide monthly performance and P&L insights to leadership.
People Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and production staff.
- Ensure training, cross-training, and skill development to support operational flexibility.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Maintenance to resolve issues and improve performance.
- Support new product introductions and process changes.
Accountabilities:
- Quality of finished goods.
- Meeting production and shipping schedules.
- Compliance with and attainment of departmental KPIs.
- Maintaining and achieving scrap reduction goals.
- Safety & Environmental Compliance.
- Workforce training and development.
- General maintenance and performance of the department.
Job Specifications:
- Work performed in a light industrial setting.
- Exposure to shop noise.
- Occasionally required to lift up to 40 lbs.
- Regularly required to sit, stand, reach, and move about facilities.
- Travel, including international.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of manufacturing/operations leadership experience.
- Strong analytical skills, including statistical reasoning.
- Experience with operational controls, manufacturing processes, logistics, safety, and quality systems.
- Demonstrated leadership experience developing teams and driving performance.
- Experience with Lean manufacturing and GMP principles.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- High standards of personal integrity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the plastic card, EMV, or secure card manufacturing industry.
The pay range for this position is $125,000-$145,000 and is eligible for an annual bonus. Benefits offered to eligible employees include, medical (PPO and HDHP with HSA), dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, 401K w/ employer match, short/long term disability, life insurance, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending, EAP, commuter benefits, education assistance, pet insurance, legal, and more.