Production Manager

STERTIL ALM CORP; Streator (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Vacation days

Health insurance

Training opportunities

Competitive salary

Job summary

Stertil ALM is seeking a Production Manager to elevate our high-mix/low-volume production across preprocessing, welding, and assembly. You will lead team leaders and supervisors, ensuring safe, efficient production planning and goal attainment.

You will drive lean improvements, roll out 5S, monitor KPIs, and collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales to meet Stertil's ambitions. A coaching, hands-on leader will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or related technical field with Lean/Six Sigma knowledge.
• Leadership training is a plus.
• Experience with high-mix/low-volume production.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manage KPIs.
• Experience in pre-processing, welding and assembly environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate team leaders and supervisors across preprocessing, welding, and assembly to ensure smooth production and safe, efficient operations.
• Drive operational excellence by monitoring safety, quality, output, and productivity; tackle bottlenecks and implement 5S and lean improvements.
• Contribute ideas on organization and resource improvements to achieve company goals and translate decisions into shop-floor goals.
• Develop and coach team members; conduct development discussions and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Lead or support projects such as scaling up production lines and launching new products in collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Technical Service and Sales.

Skills

Lean/Six Sigma

Coaching leadership

Analytical skills

Stress resilience

Decisiveness

Communication skills

Hands-on mentality

Strategic thinking

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

We are looking for an enterprising Production Manager who, with their clear vision and coaching leadership style, can elevate our production departments to a higher level.

Are you a people manager with a strong affinity for lean manufacturing? Do you have high-mix/low-volume experience? Do you have a passion for continuously improving production processes? Can you effortlessly switch between the daily hustle on the shop floor and working on strategic issues? Then this vacancy is perfect for you!

What will you do?

• Leading & coordinating: You will manage the team leaders and supervisors of the preprocessing, welding, and assembly departments. Through your team, you are responsible for smooth production operations and results. You ensure optimal personnel planning and a safe and effective production environment.
• Operational excellence: You monitor safety, quality, production output, and productivity. When bottlenecks arise, you intervene quickly and effectively. You are continuously working on process improvements. This starts with further rolling out 5S and continues with optimizing production processes. You do this using your lean toolbox. You objectively check and analyze the current situation using KPIs.
• Strategy & innovation: You are part of the Operations Team and contribute ideas on how production can be improved in terms of organization and resources to achieve Stertil's goals. Once decisions are made, you translate them into goals on the shop floor and report them to the production team.
• Team development: Our organization revolves around people. Therefore, you actively work on training and developing your team members. You coach team leaders and operators on the job, conduct development discussions, and promote a culture that encourages improvement.You celebrate successes with your team.
• Projects & collaboration: You lead or support key projects, such as scaling up a production line or the introduction of a new product. In doing so, you work closely with the departments of Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Technical Service, and Sales.

Stertil offers

• An interesting and dynamic work environment with an informal, pleasant work atmosphere in a successful organization.
• A challenging job with a good salary.
• Excellent employment conditions including:
• a favorable 401K (5% employee / 4% company contribution)
• 10 vacation days and 2 personal days
• 75% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance
• training opportunities

What do you bring?

• A completed higher education or university degree in a technical field such as Mechanical Engineering, Technical Business Administration, supplemented with Lean/Six Sigma knowledge and experience. Completed leadership training is a plus.
• Experience with high mix/know volume production
• Good analytical skills, stress resilience, and decisiveness.
• Several years of experience in a similar leadership role in a comparable production environment, where welding and assembly take place. You have previously held responsibility for a production team and are familiar with factory dynamics.
• You are a coaching leader with excellent communication skills. You can motivate people, take initiative, and build trust.Thanks to your people skills, the team feels heard and motivated.
• You are tactically strong and have a hands-on mentality. You are visible on the work floor and easily approachable. You easily switch between strategic plans and assisting on the work floor to solve problems. "Helicopter view" is written all over you, without losing sight of detail.
• Passion for continuous improvement. Terms like OEE, 5S, FMEA, and KPIs are familiar to you, and you have experience in initiating efficiency and quality improvements. You are always looking for ways to make things even better.

About the company: Stertil ALM develops, produces, and sells high-quality products for international workshops for commercial vehicles and for the transport and logistics industry. Daily, many Stertil-Koni liftings leave the factory in Streator for placement all over North America. About 80 employees work at Stertil. The Stertil-Koni brand is represented by local sales organizations, with more than 80 exclusive distributors and qualified service partners. Stertil ALM is part of the Stertil Group with 14 subsidiaries worldwide and approximately 900 employees.