Assistant Production Manager

FLSA Status : Exempt

Summary As an Assistant Production Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead the operation and maintenance of state-of-the-art automated manufacturing systems designed for home construction. You will work with the manufacturing technology and operational excellence groups and align will the local production team to manage and run component-level automation. You will be responsible for the continuous improvements for the automated systems to achieve measurable improvements in quality and throughput.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Daily interfaces with the operations manager to provide the production schedule and the overall materials plan.
• Perform daily factory and warehouse walkthroughs to supervise employees and production practices
• Manages inventory of starting materials, WIP, and finished goods to support production activities.
• Monitors actual and forecasted consumption of materials and orders replenishment stock.
• Manages timely and efficient processing of orders through the procurement process. Interfaces with receiving plants weekly to assure order accuracy and develops weekly production forecast.
• Monitors the status of open purchase orders including delivery and quality issues that may affect status.
• Reviews and evaluates safety stock levels, minimum order quantities, supplier, and QA lead times on a regular basis to identify continuous improvement opportunities including but not limited to inventory reductions.
• Manages production yield while minimizing scrap and can identify, report, and track defects and issues as well as analyze and interpret data and metrics.
• Manages all rejected / non-conforming material through the Material Disposition Process.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payables monthly to account for shop floor inventory.
• Provides support to Purchasing for credit issues with vendors.
• Coordinates the return of the material with QA, Purchasing, warehouse, and suppliers.
• Maintains complete and current knowledge of all material requirements, production processes, and issues affecting product availability, including special activities related to specific products and / or projects (for example, managing requests for special samples to support stability studies and global product registrations).
• Ensure OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Act) standards and company safety policies are always complied with including lock-out tag-out procedures.
• Collaborates with the Environmental Health and Safety team to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

Qualifications

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, traverse stairs, stoop and bend. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work En vironment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

EEO Statement

Champion Home Builders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Champion Home Builders participates in the E-Verify Program.

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