Assembly Manager- 1st Shift
Job Location:
Batavia, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary: Assembly ManagerOur Batavia location is hiring an LPIM/PET Assembly Manager. This role is responsible for leading assembly teams ensuring product quality driving process improvements and meeting production targets safely and efficiently. The Assembly Manager collaborates closely with engineering supply chain quality and maintenance teams to ensure ontime highquality position also manages the R&R department order Youll Do:Foster a positive safe and highperformance work compliance with all safety policies and code of daytoday assembly operations ensuring adherence to build instructions and production schedule. Monitoring for any schedule and develop assembly technicians leads and support coaching training performance feedback and conduct team members to meet or exceed yearly company and individual production metrics including Rework Utilization Efficiency and daily production startup meetings setting daily and weekly Lean Manufacturing practices such as 5S standardized work visual management and waste bottlenecks and implement improvements to reduce cycle time and increase with Manufacturing Engineer to refine assembly instructions tooling fixtures and equipment with Materials and Supply Chain teams to ensure component availability and resolve New Product Introduction (NPI) by participating in design reviews and pilot Qualifications:Demonstrate personal leadership; actively participate in or lead problem solving and continuous improvement to consistently run safe efficient and predictable operations while meeting cost quality and delivery flexibility when confronted with high stress / emergency situations priority changes or new timely well-reasoned decisions in fastpaced environments with incomplete information while balancing risk and assembly processes equipment tooling drawings and manufacturing systems well enough to guide decision-making and support teams qualifications:4-5 years of experience in manufacturing operations with at least 2 years in a supervisory or management in mechanical electrical or electromechanical understanding of 5S & Lean Manufacturing leadership communication and organizational to read engineering drawings BOMs and assembly improvements for work area products and prototype work with limited Engineering and minimal ConditionsFactory environment with exposure to machinery tools and industrial standing lifting and movement on the production overtime or weekend work to meet production other duties as assigned or required to support operational and organizational objectives.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Discover how Milacron, your complete lifecycle partner, delivers technology solutions for your manufacturing processes. Our injection molding machines and plastic processing solutions will help optimize production and decrease downtime.