TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Responsibilities
- Ensures the health and safety of employees under their direction;
- Ensures that their staff uses all operational management systems to monitor and maintain high quality standards;
- Maintains good work practices in their departments;
- Plans, organizes, develops, monitors, and evaluates operations related to the maintenance of injection molding machines and mechanical/electrical equipment;
- Supervises and approves department-related purchases;
- Coordinates team communication between different shifts;
- Ensures proper equipment maintenance (preventive and regular maintenance);
- Establishes and directs preventive and corrective maintenance of production equipment to optimize results and ensure optimal and seamless efficiency;
- Coordinates maintenance work on the factory site buildings and offices;
- Maintains and controls departmental expenses, including subcontracting costs;
- Is responsible for requesting and monitoring special projects;
- Continuously seeks out new opportunities to improve speed, quality, cost and delivery accuracy;
- Participates in budget development, its management and controls maintenance expenses – spare parts, replacement parts OT, and outside contractors;
- Is responsible for maximizing employee efficiency using systems like predictive and preventative maintenance;
- Overall Plant uptime metrics and changeover speed metrics to provide the Plant operations a reliable nimble platform up which to manufacture quality products reliably.
- Supervises employees and ensures good team spirit and harmony; and
- Participates in the Plant Manufacturing Leadership Team..
Requirements
- College diploma in Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience in manufacturing management;
- 5 to 10 years of experience as a manager in a manufacturing environment;
- Knowledge and experience with continuous improvement principles
Knowledge and Skills
- Lean 6Sigma tools
- Preventative and Predictive Maintenance systems and optimized use
- Strong technical background – teaching and trouble shooting complex issues
- Comfortable around higher management and strong presentation skills
- Knowledge of the Office Suite;
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written;
- Good ability to manage change and resolve problems;
- Good analytical skills;
- Must represent significant added value in all aspects of teamwork.
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