Manufacturing Manager
Prysmian Group
Scottsville, Texas
- Leads efforts to achieve a “Zero and Beyond” culture, eliminate all injuries, and positions the plant as a good community partner through our Corporate Social Responsibly efforts.
- Achieves daily, weekly, monthly production targets at minimal cost, maximum efficiency, and maximum quality.
- Works with Quality control to enhance in process controls to minimize scrap and meet customer high quality standards.
- Drives continuous improvement through appropriate coaching, training, and process improvement.
- Champions, with Value Stream Managers and Supervisors, operator led process control, lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts and programs.
- Knowledge and application of Tier Communication and 6-S.
- Administers company policies and practices.
- Works with materials management to optimize load, to minimize downtime, bottlenecks, unfavorable material mix and to reduce raw material, WIP and FG inventories.
- Works with Engineering to enhance process improvement resulting in achieving productivity goal.
- Works with Maintenance to ensure preventative maintenance programs match production requirements and maximize equipment efficiencies.
- Champions manufacturing objectives and possesses Project Management skills through leading and facilitating projects.
- Experience facilitating organizational change with good oral and verbal communication skills throughout all levels of the organization.
- Uses Continuous Improvement tools to troubleshoot recurring issues and eliminate root cause process failures.
- Analyzes KPI’s to prepare charts/records and initiate remedial action.
- Manages labor and employee relations in accordance with corporate policies ensuring pay rates, promotions, demotions, and termination of employment are applied consistently and with due process and diligence.
- Reviews material/facility usage.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- Results driven.
- Quality driven leader.
- Ability to manage multiple, complex tasks with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to motivate, communicate and lead continuous improvement.
- Excellent analytical abilities.
- Solid planning, leadership, and administrative skills.
- Good understanding of business principles and practices with ability to apply them.
- Project Management experience.
- Proven ability to work in a team setting.
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related field.
- Minimum 7-10 years of management experience required; manufacturing environment highly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Lean or Six Sigma knowledge highly preferred.
About the Company
Prysmian Group
Prysmian is world leader of the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, with some 19,000 employees across 50 countries worldwide.
Prysmian Group operates 10 plants in North America serving the telecom and energy markets. The Group consists of Prysmian and Draka, two of the strongest and most respected commercial brands in the industry, whose highly complementary products and services meet the needs for two distinct sectors: Telecom Cables & Systems produces optical fibers, optical cables and connectivity for video, data and voice transmission. Prysmian Group has two fiber optic manufacturing facilities in the United States covering 1.5 million square feet, including the only co-located fiber and cable facility in North America.
In our energy business, we design and produce cables and systems for the transmission and distribution of low, medium, high and extra high voltage systems. In 2009, Prysmian built the only Vertical Continuous Vulcanization line in North America in the Abbeville, SC plant. This facility is used to produce insulated high voltage cables. In addition, the group has a manufacturing facility in Prescott, Ontario to meet Canada’s power cabling needs.
A key factor in managing the Group's business is attention to sustainable development and the environment. As part of its activities, the Prysmian Group is involved in implementing management and production processes which help improve environmental sustainability and safety at work, in accordance with the guidelines of its HSE policy.