Director of Manufacturing

• ◆Manufacturing Performance Metrics (Safety, Cost, Quality, Productivity, Efficiency, Plant Utilization, Overtime Reduction, Production Finishes to Schedule and Preventative maintenance)
• ◆Ensuring a culture of Safety, Employee engagement and Continuous improvement in manufacturing.
• ◆Optimize cost of production and manufacturing footprint requirements.

KEY

• ✓Collaborate with the cross functional teams within HGAP to maximize business

growth opportunities.

• ✓Manages the overall manufacturing operations of the plants; ensures goals are met for Safety, Cost, Quality and On-time finish while concurrently ensuring company profit margin and cost of production meet the targets.
• ✓Leads active efforts that enable standardization (when feasible), cost and manufacturing waste reduction and 6S.
• ✓Responsible for the manufacture and on-time finishes of products
• ✓Implements changes to production methods or materials flow that align with efforts to optimize productivity, achieve cost savings and enable product production goals.
• ✓Leads product lead-time objectives established by the VP of Operations
• ✓Partners with Engineering to support the manufacture and on-time product launch of New products at the target product cost.
• ✓Oversees the workflow that satisfies production

in a cost efficient manner.

• ✓Manages maintenance of plant and production areas, including preventative maintenance programs and initiatives.
• ✓Prepares manufacturing reports including analysis and quantitative explanation of issues, performance, and improvements.
• ✓Drives operation cost reduction initiatives (direct & indirect). Measures results and report out progress.
• ✓Champion of lean manufacturing and Continuous improvements. Provide monthly measurable results from such initiatives.
• ✓Optimize cost of production provides monthly updates and reporting regarding process improvements impacts on company cash flow.
• ✓Collaborate with cross functional teams and provides actionable information to improve product Safety, Cost, Quality and plants throughput
• ✓Works with various operation departments and cross functional teams to meet and exceed manufacturing KPI’s standards.
• ✓Works with executive staff to ensure company strategic initiatives are instituted and ensure tangible benefits are achieved through monthly measuring
• ✓Establishes and maintains annual manufacturing operating plans, budgets, capital appropriation, and manpower to assure the most productive utilization of human, financial and capital resources.
• ✓Ensures HGAP plants meet and/or exceed local, state, federal

and international plant safety standards.

• ✓Ensures personnel and equipment training standards are met and develops

relevant tactical and strategic training plans (with human resources) for

applicable personnel. Champion of lessons learned.

• ✓Drives continuous improvement and quantitative decision-making methods

throughout the manufacturing teams.

• ✓Oversees efforts to maximize production line efficiencies and effective employee utilization within the plants.
• ✓Champion of safe work practices that ensure workers’ health and safety.
• ✓Participate in sales and operations discussions/status meetings with key customer accounts and distributors, as warranted.
• ✓Establishes and optimizes an organizational structure that maximizes the manufacturing team’s effectivenes