Operations Manager

US Farathane

Job Location:

Riverside, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

US Farathane is seeking an experienced Operations Manager whois responsible for leading all day-to-day manufacturing operations with an automotive plastic injection molding facility ensuring safety quality delivery and cost objectives are met. This role provides strategic and hand-on leadership across production maintenance quality and materials to support customer requirements and continuous improvement initiatives in compliance with IATF 16949 standards.

US Farathane has been a leading source of plastics manufacturing supplying the automotive industry for over 40 years. Through highly technical research and development coupled with a diverse and knowledgeable Management Team and dedicated Associates US Farathane has continued to grow each year. We provide customers with a wide range of full-service support from black box design concepts to highly engineered composites TPEs and TPOs as well as specialized extrusion and compression technologies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develops and maintains manufacturing operations business plans to include all program requirements labor hours cycle production costs and image.
Provides input to the development of product strategy and research and development of new and emerging products.
Establishes production and quality control standards develops budget and cost controls and obtains data regarding types quantities specifications and delivery dates of products ordered.
Partner with Engineering Quality Maintenance Materials and HR to support plant objectives.
Provides guidance to the development of a manufacturing process plan including personnel requirements material needs subcontract requirements facility needs and tooling and equipment needs.
Ensuring all established costs quality and delivery commitments are met.
Ensure adherence to standardized work work instructions and process controls.
Coordinates manufacturing activities with all other functions of the organization and suppliers to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources machines and equipment.
Reviews production and operating reports and directs the resolution of operational manufacturing and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays.
Perform administrative activities associated with the effective management of shop operations including compiling storing and retrieving production data for reports.
Determines responsibilities of assigned organization and staff positions to accomplish business objectives.
Trains and ensures all assigned employees are aware of and comply with company government and customer policies procedures and regulations.
Ensures compliance with IATF 16949 customer-specific requirements and internal quality systems.
Support APQP PPAP control plans PFMEA and layered process audits.
Partner with Quality to reduce scrap rework and customer complaints.
Collaborate with Maintenance to ensure optimal uptime of injection molding machines robots and auxiliary equipment.
Participate in capital planning for tooling presses automation and auxiliary equipment.
Support Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 6S and OEE improvement projects.
Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with OSHA and environmental regulations.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in engineering Manufacturing Operations Management or related field (or equivalent experience).
7 years of progressive leadership experience in an automotive plastic injection molding environment.
Strong knowledge of injection molding processes tooling materials (resins) and automation.
Experience working with IATF 16949 certified facilities.
Proven leadership of high-volume multi-shift operations.

Physical Requirements:

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.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; use hands to finger handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision. This employee will be responsible for part inspection with constant lifting of boxes for inspection and labeling.

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential performing the duties of this job the following is the working conditions:

Work is performed primarily in an automotive plastic injection molding manufacturing environment with regular time spent on the production floor and in quality labs.
Exposure with noise moving machinery forklifts temperature variations plastic resins and production chemicals typical of injection molding operations.
Required to wear appropriate PPE such as safety glasses and reflecting green quality vest.
May be exposed to odors dust and fumes associated with molding processes and materials.
Work schedule is generally day shift with off shift weekend or extended hours required to support production issues launches audits or customer concerns.
Position requires frequent interaction with production personnel engineering maintenance and management on the shop floor.
Occasional travel to customer or supplier locations may be required for audits launches or issue resolution.
Fast-paced environment with time sensitive decision making to minimize quality risks and production downtime.
Work involves a combination of standing walking sitting and computer-based tasks.

The specific statements above are not intended to be all-inclusive.

US Farathane offers an impressive compensation and benefits package including:

Medical
Dental
Vision
401k with company match
Paid holidays and vacation
Job Promotional Opportunities and much more!

Interested applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies or similar will not be paid a fee and become the property of US Farathane.

The specific statements above are not intended to be all-inclusive.

Equal Opportunity Employer including disabled and veterans.

Required Experience:

Manager

US Farathane is seeking an experienced Operations Manager whois responsible for leading all day-to-day manufacturing operations with an automotive plastic injection molding facility ensuring safety quality delivery and cost objectives are met. This role provides strategic and hand-on leadership acro...