Operations Leader: Lean Manufacturing & Safety

Energy Jobline ZR; Cedarburg (WI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Pioneer Pet Products in Cedarburg, WI seeks an Operations Manager to lead manufacturing, engineering, and maintenance with a focus on safety, quality, and cost reductions. You will partner with logistics and quality teams to drive continuous improvement across processes and machinery.

The role requires directing supervision, budgeting input, and developing training and development plans. You will champion Lean principles, oversee capital projects, and strive for on-time performance and high

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership for Employee Safety Systems
• Foster an environment of open communications and trust with all associates
• Implement supervisory responsibilities following the organization’s policies and applicable laws
• Supervise direct reports including hiring, training, and planning that measure performance
• Assign direct work, appraise performance, coach and reward associates, address complaints and resolve problems
• Ensure practical personnel, training, and development programs
• Facilitate associate teams to build cohesiveness and improve the overall results of the respective tasks
• Provide strong input and support for product quality and customer-required systems while working with the Quality department
• Conduct meetings with plant personnel to establish, explain, review policies, coordinate functions and operations between departments, and establish responsibilities and procedures to attain objectives
• Ensure customer satisfaction and trust by focusing on product quality and on-time performance
• Develop, manage and lead principles of a Lean environment
• Lead the production/manufacturing engineering process, projects, capital expenditure planning, and implementation
• Provide sound budgeting and planning input for production and support operations
• Develop strategies and programs that improve work process productivity
• Review technical problems and procedures and recommend solutions to problems or procedure issues
• Ensure optimum effectiveness in scrap control, production efficiency, and costs
• Manage production maintenance and ensure sound Preventive Maintenance and Repair Programs (TPM)
• Analyze, evaluate, and present information concerning business situations, production capabilities, production problems, and new product development for consideration by other management team members
• Establish operating indicators (metrics) that regularly measure department performance and communicate this information to management
• Keep corporate management abreast of significant issues or developments identified during activities and actions being taken to improve production

Skills

Leadership

Lean manufacturing

Safety systems

Budgeting

Tools

TPM/Total Productive Maintenance

Job description

Pioneer Pet Products in Cedarburg, WI seeks an Operations Manager to lead manufacturing, engineering, and maintenance with a focus on safety, quality, and cost reductions. You will partner with logistics and quality teams to drive continuous improvement across processes and machinery.

The role requires directing supervision, budgeting input, and developing training and development plans. You will champion Lean principles, oversee capital projects, and strive for on-time performance and high