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OCCUPATIONAL SUMMARY:

Responsible for all assembly related functions dealing with product quality, on time delivery, and employee safety.

 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Ensures a safe workplace for employees.
• Ensures that the product shipped from company meets quality expectations and standards.
• Responsible for schedule adherence.
• Prepare monthly manufacturing man load requirement and annual departmental budget based on sales forecast.
• Involved in implementation of JIT/TQCM manufacturing techniques.
• Responsible for all excess parts found on floor to return to stock rooms.
• Ensures performance measurements are monitored and plans are put in place to improve performance.
• Responsible for identifying training required for assembly supervisors and managers to continue to grow.
• Conducts manufacturing meetings, reporting on daily, weekly, and monthly schedules using charts which are to be updated daily.
• Prepare monthly sales estimates.
• Recruit or hire professional managers/cell leaders.
• Collects, interprets, acts upon and reports key assembly statistical data.
• Works with quality management to correct quality problems which are identified with products in the field.
• Initiates and continuously improves internal quality programs to improve the final product and reduce product variance.
• Identifies and makes corrective actions which result in scrap reduction cost which occurs monthly in assembly.
• Ensures proper communications with support groups dealing with schedule changes or special shift support needs.
• Responsible for adherence to union contract requirements.
• Responsible for adherence to FAA and OSHA requirements.
• Performs other related duties as required.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Knowledge and skills:

• Requires complete knowledge of all phases of manufacturing preferably in an aerospace industry.
• Must be an effective communicator, motivator and a leader.
• Must be able to train managers/cell leaders to be effective leaders by using manufacturing cells concept.
• Must have a working knowledge of manufacturing technology.
• Understanding of JIT/TQCM manufacturing techniques/cells concept.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Business or related technical field and at least 4 years experience in manufacturing preferred, or five years in a manufacturing environment.

Communication Skills:

• Must have the ability to generate written communication and to operate required office equipment.
• Ability to read and review written communication.
• Speech and hearing abilities that allow individual to communicate clearly and distinctly in English.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. 
• Ability to prioritize, coordinate and complete multiple tasks that vie for limited resources within a narrow time constraint. 
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• This position requires extended periods of walking while working with computers and viewing computer monitors, and other office equipment. 
• Finger dexterity needed in using misc. office equipment such as telephone, typing, ten key, fax, copy machine etc. 
• Bending, stooping, reaching and lifting up to approximately twenty pounds are required during tasks related to the job.