Operations Leader: Lean, Safety & On-Time Delivery

The Timken Company; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 72,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive

Paid time off

401(k)

Medical insurance

Dental/Vision

Job summary

The Timken Company in Downers Grove, IL is seeking a hands-on operations leader to guide a team of manufacturing and support staff. You will manage safety, quality, scheduling, and continuous improvement to meet production goals and customer expectations.

This role requires strong lean skills, experience with SAP, and the ability to develop people, optimize processes, and control costs within the plant budget. The ideal candidate has supervision experience and a Bachelor’s or equivalent.

Qualifications

• Associates degree or equivalent experience required, bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 7 years of supervisor/management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure legal and internal policy compliance for environmental, health and safety programs; and identify and implement improvements in these areas.
• Directly manage operative employees for performance against established metrics, including pay and development decisions.
• Coordinate training and development of operative employees, ensuring required staffing and cross-training exits.
• Help build the productions schedule and manage production precisely to that schedule, providing proactive signals if schedule attainment is in jeopardy.
• Ensure in-process and outgoing product quality meets customer requirements and specifications.
• Communicate well with all employees to ensure that work schedule and requirements are understood and clearly pursued and that all employees are engaged and motivated.
• Evaluate and continuously improve productivity by developing and applying rigorous lean management principles.
• Monitor in-process orders and intervene as necessary to achieve schedule accomplishment and on-time delivery.
• Continuously drive positive change and improvement in all facets of operations and customer service.
• Establish operating budget and manage all costs and expenses to that budget.
• Maintain and comply with all standard operating procedures and processes.
• Work with management team to achieve all business plan targets for safety, shipments, gross margin, on-time delivery, quality and cost control.
• Embrace and support all Timken Core Values: Ethics and Integrity, Quality, Teamwork, and Excellence.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

SAP

Quality Control

Data analysis

Excel

Communication

Problem solving

Team building

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Timken Company in Downers Grove, IL is seeking a hands-on operations leader to guide a team of manufacturing and support staff. You will manage safety, quality, scheduling, and continuous improvement to meet production goals and customer expectations.

This role requires strong lean skills, experience with SAP, and the ability to develop people, optimize processes, and control costs within the plant budget. The ideal candidate has supervision experience and a Bachelor’s or equivalent.