Fabrication Production Manager

STRONGARM DESIGNS provides the ideal HMI solution to healthcare, bio-pharmaceutical, food, manufacturing, and other industries. We are diligently seeking to hire a candidate for Production Manager for our Metal Fabrication Department. This position provides management and fabrication solutions for our entire line of products. The ideal candidate will have a passion for learning and passion to apply the principles of continuous improvement by focusing on iterative/incremental process focused improvements. This department is quickly growing in terms of capacity and scope as it supports the sheet metal and metal casting fabrication input of our entire line of products. This department is over 36,000 sq ft (about 1/3 of our campus) and will be expanding by another 12,000 sq ft in the latter half of 2023.

Come join a team and company with endless innovative visions in a rapidly growing, leading industry!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As Production Manager for our Metal Fabrication Department you will be responsible for managing, directing, and participating in the daily fabrication of our sheet metal and metal casting components used in our ruggedized operator interface systems. Types of metal fabricated at Strongarm are stainless-steel, carbon steel, and aluminum. You will be responsible for the following operations:

Managing and participating in the production schedule, quality non-conformance reports, inventory needs, training and resource needs for the staff under your charge, ensuring that work orders and engineering drawings are followed appropriately, troubleshooting fabrication issues, filling engineering change requests, and collaborating closely with our other departments in mutual support of one another. Your responsibilities will also include assisting the Director of Operations in implementing the company's process oriented continuous improvement initiatives, meeting operating objectives, and ramping up capacity of the facility.

As a manager, you will also be responsible for supporting the needs of the staff under your charge, which include motivation, team building, and couching their needs to the other managers/departments and vice-versa. You will have the responsibility of advocating on behalf of your staff on how best to support their efforts on meeting our operating objectives. You will be collaborating closely with the departmental managers including Quality, Fabrication, Powder Coating, Shipping, and Engineering. This position reports directly to the Director of Operations.

COMPENSATION:

• $90,000-$97,500
• Up to 6% biannual (12% annual) bonus based on departmental objectives

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5-7 years' experience managing people in a supervisory or management role.
• 5-7 years' hands-on experience minimum in sheet metal fabrication/finishing and/or metal casting fabrication/finishing.
• 2-5 years' experience managing people in a management role.
• 2-5 years' experience with ERP, MRP, or equivalent database software required; VISUAL Manufacturing preferred.
• Knowledge of different types of metal used at Strongarm (carbon steel, stainless-steel, aluminum) required.
• Knowledge of sheet metal gauges required.
• Superb ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills a must.
• Strong ability to communicate and mediate effectively; both written and orally.
• Strong organizational skills and proficiency with database systems (such as VISUAL) and Microsoft Office suite required.
  • Continually review and ensure that procedures, practices, standards, quality, and company policies are being followed.
  • Ability to use measurement equipment, calipers, tape measure, etc.
• Able to sit, stand, bend, lift, and/or walk for 2+ hours at a time.
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs. (occasional).
• Prior experience as a fabrication production manager/supervisor preferred.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 and lean/continuous improvement systems preferred.
• Prior experience programming machine G-code preferred.
• Prior experience with Striker or other sheet metal nesting software preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Management:
  • Daily and weekly scheduling of jobs.
  • Manage expedite orders.
  • Ensuring production reports are up to date, followed, and altered as needed.
  • Ensuring that inventory is maintained to proper level in accordance with our inventory reports and inventory logs.
  • Instruct employees on procedures, practices, and standards regarding assembly and production procedures, safety procedures, quality procedures, continuous improvement, verbal and written instructions, schedules, employee guidelines, and other STRONGARM operating practices and company initiatives.
  • Continually review and ensure that procedures, practices, and standards are being followed.
  • Liaison and practice a high-level of collaboration with Engineering and Quality Departments to ensure high quality standards and provide feedback for continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Corrective actions regarding both company policies and operating procedures.
  • Scheduling of employees for jobs relative to an optimized workflow and our daily backlog chart.
  • Ensuring the production schedule is being met.
  • Scheduling the training and cross-training of personnel.
  • Ensure company operating objectives are being met.
  • Coach and mentor personnel and the supervisor under your charge.
  • Collaborate with Director of Operations on operating objective and process-based improvements.
  • Assist Director of Operations in ramping up fabrication throughput to meet our growing product demand.
  • Ensure that area remains organized and clean.
  • Assist troubleshooting on the shop floor as needed.
  • Assist HR with recruitment.
  • Perform bi-annual performance reviews of employees in the department
  • Assist the Director of Operations in leading and communicating our vision of being the industries preferred HMI solution through our continuous improvement change initiatives

• Equipment, tooling, and maintenance:
  • Report inoperable equipment and tooling to procurement/maintenance and ensure that it is repaired, replaced, etc. as soon as possible.
  • If equipment is able to be repaired, assist operator with the repairs until complete and machine is in working order;
  • If equipment cannot be repaired and requires parts to be ordered, supply a list of parts and part numbers to the manufacturing manager along with machine information;
  • If equipment cannot be repaired and requires a service tech, supply the manufacturing manager with the equipment model number, serial number, and problem.

• Ensure equipment and tool maintenance is completed as required and that maintenance logbooks are filled out.

• Quality:
  • Spot check production parts as needed. Focus should generally be on parts that are consistently challenging.
  • Manage and participate in the review and problem-solving of Non-Conforming Materials Reports (NCMRs) generated by personnel and yourself.
  • Generate Engineering Change Request forms (ECRs)
  • Ensure that parts received from other areas should be checked prior to continuing work.
  • Communicate and problem solve quality and operating discrepancies with the Director of Operations, Engineering, and Quality.
  • Ensure that fabrication defects/errors are reconciled before they continue on to assembly operations

BENEFITS CRAFTED FOR YOU:

• PTO (including sick and personal days)
• 401K, Health insurance, vision, dental
• STRONGARM swag
• Biyearly bonuses & yearly raises based on performance reviews