Position Summary - Overall Management
Monitor and manage daily manufacturing operations and trigger corrective actions.
Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day manufacturing operations to exceed our customers expectations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage and direct Production, Quality, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Plant Regulatory Compliance, EHS, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Warehouse Operations to ensure execution on production and delivery commitments.
- Work with S&OP to analyze actual demands and forecast and provide sufficient manufacturing capacity to support customers requirements, including the development and implementation of long-term capital planning.
- Coordinates all manufacturing activities with sales forecasts, demand planning, tech transfer, engineering, and quality departments to ensure that product requirements and quality standards are met.
- Ensures supply chain and manufacturing readiness for new product launches
- Develop annual operating plan for departmental budget and capital expenditure.
- Initiate and fulfill plans to upgrade manufacturing, improve quality, and lower costs.
- Examine monthly finance report and management reports for continuous improvements
- Continue efforts to comply with requirements of FDA, GMP, ISO.
- Lead to reengineer manufacturing data base, strengthen production planning, and ship on time.
- Assure compliance of environment protection regulations and safety standards.
- Be responsible for production output, product quality, and on-time shipping.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Enable high levels of workforce engagement between production workers and front-line supervisors.
- Increase production, assets capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining quality standards.
1 - 6 Months Goal
- Ultimately responsible for all production activities, plant operations, quality, and P / L.
- Lead to build up the companys efficiency, competitiveness, and higher quality.
- Benchmark and establish targets for manufacturing efficiencies, safety metrics, inventory turns, inventory obsolescence and monitoring results to ensure targets are met or exceeded.
- Manages all capital projects to ensure implementation is within timeline, budget and expected payback.
- Responsible for setting performance standards and the development of employees.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Implement all State and Federal regulatory safety ad good manufacturing practices requirements (FDA, OSHA, EPA, etc.)
- Estimate production costs and present the budgets.
- Run LEAN operations, tighten material control, trim labor wastes.
- Building up management teams; recruiting, motivating, and evaluating.
- Propose and fulfill annual plans of upgrading manufacturing improvement action plans.
- With in-depth cosmetic knowledge and experience, upgrade our cosmetic manufacturing.
- Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
- Address employees issues or grievances.
- Build and develop talent within manufacturing to support organizational demand and future succession.
- Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
- Communicate with senior management on tactics, progress, and strategies.
- Assist in the identification of key areas for cost reduction and utilize resources to drive waste elimination and reduce costs while increasing capacity.
- Perform other duties as needed and directed by management.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS Degree in Chemistry, Biology and / or Business Management or related field, masters degree preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of hands‑on work experience within a manufacturing plant at manager‑level or higher; preferred in Cosmetic Manufacturing Industry
- Proven managerial experience leading large team
Education & Experience
BS Degree in Chemistry, Biology and / or Business Management or related field, masters degree preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Adequate knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and human resources)
- Must be able to report, interpret, and summarize business and financial information to the executive team
- Familiarity with industry standard equipment and technical expertise
- Be knowledgeable of safety, cost control, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and processes
- Ability to create accountability and to lead by example
- Strong team building, decision‑making, and people management skills
Working Conditions
Good working conditions, with the absence of disagreeable conditions.
Salary
Pay commensurate with experience.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package following company policies.