Manufacturing Manager

Avient Corporation; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Shift Supervisor to oversee production lines and ensure safe, efficient operations. This role involves managing personnel, fostering a collaborative work environment, and driving continuous improvement through Lean Six Sigma initiatives. You will be responsible for coordinating maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and enhancing team performance. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to sustainability and employee development, where your contributions will make a significant impact on manufacturing excellence and operational success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; experience in manufacturing and safety procedures preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and conflict resolution skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production lines, ensuring safety and efficiency in operations.
• Participate in staffing, training, and performance reviews for team members.

Skills

Stress Management

Self Motivated

Training/Mentoring Others

Analytical Skills

Time/Priority Management

Work on a Team

Organizational Skills

Conflict Resolution Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

IQS

LRM

CCS

CAID Charts

E-time

Ariba on Demand

Job description

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Position has direct responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of all production lines assigned. Position also has responsibility for prioritizing the work assignments for the maintenance associates and manufacturing process engineers assigned to their lines to effectively support manufacturing operations. The shift supervisor reports to this position. Position is responsible for fostering a team focused work environment to achieve plant and company goals and objectives and is also responsible for participating in activities to enhance the growth and development of all manufacturing operations personnel. This includes safety, environmental, productivity, quality, maintenance, lean six sigma events and financial performance.

Essential Functions

• Safety and Environmental performance: Communicates expectations; conducts audits, investigates and documents all incidents; conducts safety meetings; authorizes work and signs permits; participates on the plant safety committee.
• Production: Determines requirements and assigns personnel to each line to assure efficient operation; monitors operations including run rates, changeovers and line cleans; coordinates with maintenance, lab and warehouse personnel to meet line production expectations; troubleshoot process issues and determine the appropriate course of action to resolve; participate in the development/revision of operating procedures; identify and participate in documentation of Management of Changes.
• Quality: Reviews finished goods laboratory test results; reviews in process test results; determines process running condition changes to be made; solicits input from tech support as needed; participates in on-site customer audits; participates in ISO audits; participates in customer trials/trial reviews; participates in complaint investigations.
• Staffing: Participates in plant staffing activities including interviewing and selection. Conducts performance reviews for direct reports and ensures performance reviews are conducted for all operations personnel; recommends wage increases and promotions; identifies and prioritizes personnel developmental needs; conducts disciplinary discussions; reviews staff assignments; develops and communicates work schedules for production lines and assigns staff as needed.
• Maintenance: Supports the Avient Reliability Program by coordinating shift maintenance activities and audits equipment checklists to verify proper monitoring by operations. Ensures work orders are written and entered into e-mail for scheduling; schedules line downtime as required for proactive maintenance.
• Learns and uses all appropriate systems which may include SAP, IQS, LRM, CCS, CAID Charts, E-time, Ariba on Demand, Microsoft Office applications.
• Financial: Must understand and manage financial performance from a cost to manufacture standpoint for lines assigned to them.
• LSS: Must drive Lean Six Sigma events to improve overall performance for assigned lines.
• Other projects/duties as assigned or needed.

Physical Demands

• Requires standing and sitting for extended periods of time, talking and listening.
• Must be able to walk and use hands.
• Occasionally requires bending, stooping, climbing ladders and stairs.
• May occasionally be required to lift, push or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Typically work is in a manufacturing environment where noise level is loud.
• Generally requires the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing protection, hard hat, respiratory protection.
• Exposure to outside weather conditions is routine.
• May be exposed to working in extreme heat and humidity.
• May also be exposed on occasion to dust or fumes.

Scope

• Manufacturing Plant
• Leader of Others - Drives Engagement
• Leader of Others - Courage
• Leader of Others - Values Differences
• Leader of Others - Ensures Accountability
• Leader of Others - Develops Talent
• Leader of Others - Organizational Savvy

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Cross Functional - Budget Management
• Cross Functional - Managing Direct Reports
• Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry
• Manufacturing - Safety Procedures
• Cross Functional - Cost Management
• Manufacturing - Manufacturing Operations
• Cross Functional - Problem Solving Techniques

Qualifications

• Personal Skills - Stress Management
• Personal Skills - Self Motivated
• Personal Skills - Training/Mentoring Others
• Personal Skills - Analytical Skills
• Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
• Software Skills - Microsoft Word
• Software Skills - Microsoft Excel
• Personal Skills - Work on a Team
• Personal Skills - Organizational Skills
• Personal Skills - Conflict Resolution Skills

Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) Requirements

• Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.
• Security includes physical security and cyber security.

Who We Are

Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:

• Dyneema, the world’s strongest fiber, enables unmatched levels of performance and protection for end-use applications, including ballistic personal protection, marine and sustainable infrastructure and outdoor sports.
• Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy.
• Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint.
• Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility.

Avient employs approximately 10,000 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work. For more information, visit www.avient.com.

Why Avient

Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well as positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.

At Avient, we believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person’s qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient Corporation is a drug-free workplace. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran’s status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law.