Summary

This position is responsible for managing, planning, directing, organizing, and developing strategic manufacturing capabilities and executing a strategic plan for manufacturing excellence in the Gardena, California location.

Essential Functions

• Drives continuous improvement in environmental compliance, health, and safety.

• Ensures company compliance with all established company and corporate policies, procedures, and governmental regulations pertaining to plant safety or environmental issues.

• Drives quality improvements through traditional Quality Assurance/Quality Control activities, audits, root cause analysis using ZDP techniques.

• Oversees all manufacturing operations, gives direction, resolves problems, sets deadlines to ensure that all company manufacturing objectives are met.

• Reviews financial and budgetary reports, cost data, to assure plant operations meet company profitability and financial objectives. Provides documented plans for:

• Pipelines projects to meet required savings.
• 6S performance and improvement.
• Recovery of underperforming areas / equipment against standard.

• Monitors production schedules and production process to assure customer delivery dates are met.

• Identifies, analyzes, and plans for plant capital needs and completes capital requests in accordance with corporate requirements.

• Assists in developing and implementing manufacturing labor policies.

• Assists in determining manufacturing manning and employment levels.

• Directs the workforce to meet company labor objectives.

• Keeps abreast with metals industry state of the art and technological advancements to assist the company in maintaining its manufacturing efficiency and competitive ability.

• Supervises, directs, evaluates the job performance of all direct reports within the manufacturing organization.

• Makes presentations, conducts meetings, and communicates with all levels of the corporation pertaining to manufacturing-related activities.

• Shares best practices within the organization.

• Leads by example, instilling skillsets and mindsets, in order to drive continuous improvement; coaches and develops employees; leads cross-functional teams.

• Assists all teams as needed to ensure improvements are made and sustained.

• Performs all aspects of the position according to the PCC Code of Conduct and Sox guidelines.

• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

Competencies

• Leadership skills to positively model and champion results-oriented culture; motivate, coach, drive performance; and maximize manufacturing excellence to achieve strategic deliverables and bottom-line results.

• PCC toolbox & metrics acumen to drive quarter-over-quarter continuous productivity improvement.

• Communication skills: effectively utilizes all methods of communication, oral and written to assure manufacturing strategy is clearly communicated, understood and cross-communicated within the organization.

• Talent management skills and abilities to identify and develop key talent and a strategically focused workforce within the manufacturing organization.

• Technical expertise – continuously seeks to advance and share professional technical knowledge, develop new ideas and seek best industry practices to maintain constant manufacturing state of the art capability.

• Financial skills – the ability to analyze and interpret financial data, budgets, and other financial reports and translate that information into manufacturing action items, goals and deliverables.

• Personal integrity and able to conduct job responsibilities in an ethical and non-discriminatory manner.

• Ability to retain confidential information.

• Ability to maintain positive and productive working relationship across the organization.

• Problem solving and reasoning ability, can mentally process and comprehend complex issues involving multi variables.

• Decision making skills, can evaluate and take action with limited or conflicting data.

• Determination, drive and assertiveness to accomplish goals and objectives.

• Time Management skills, can organize, prioritize, and balance priorities against the conflicting time demands required of a senior management position.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study (Engineering, Material Science, or Manufacturing Management) or equivalent management, technical experience in a like industry.

• Three-five years’ experience in progressively responsible manufacturing positions is required; previous experience managing and mentoring direct reports required.

Additional Notes

This position will be based in Gardena, CA, but may require regular travel to other Revert facilities.

Physical Dimensions

Physical Demands – The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Must be able to travel regularly by air or car; must be able to frequently remain in a stationary position with repetitive hand motions. Frequently operates a computer and other office productivity machinery including a phone, copy machine, and computer printer.

The employee is occasionally required to stand, and/or walk; occasionally required to climb or balance; push/pull, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.

Work Environment – The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Works primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential. May occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the office setting with exposure to climate changes, uneven surfaces, heights, noise, airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration.