Operations Lead: Quality, Lean & Continuous Improvement

PPG Industries; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

PPG Industries in Cleveland, OH seeks an Assistant Operations Manager to oversee the engineering and sub-standard product recovery functions at the plant. You will be onsite in Cleveland and report to the Operations Manager, leading a cross-functional team across 24/7 shifts to drive quality and efficiency.

You will own root-cause analysis, lead investigations, and implement corrective actions while collaborating with maintenance and process engineering to meet safety, quality, and cost goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, or equivalent is required.
• 5+ years of manufacturing operations management experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with LEAN or Six Sigma.
• Ability to flex schedule to follow batches when customer impact is involved.

Responsibilities

• Own process quality and process incident investigation and ensure root cause analysis and corrective actions are established.
• Manage a team of ~20-25 headcount across 24/7 shifts: Engineers (~8 HC), a small lab (~4 HC), and a scheduling team (~11 HC).
• Deliver year over year improvements in non-conforming product and formula/specification optimization.
• Work with technical, process engineering team, and production team to match output to standards. Establish criteria for bad actor production and drive for improvement on these metrics.
• Develop and implement long-term strategies for quality/cost improvement.
• Partner with Maintenance/Engineering for all expense and capital work required to maintain operations.
• Analyze data to provide inventive ideas and execute swiftly with minimal oversight

Skills

Team leadership

Operations management

Process quality

LEAN/Six Sigma

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, or equivalent

Job description

PPG Industries in Cleveland, OH seeks an Assistant Operations Manager to oversee the engineering and sub-standard product recovery functions at the plant. You will be onsite in Cleveland and report to the Operations Manager, leading a cross-functional team across 24/7 shifts to drive quality and efficiency.

You will own root-cause analysis, lead investigations, and implement corrective actions while collaborating with maintenance and process engineering to meet safety, quality, and cost goals.