Job description: The Assembly Department Manager is responsible for leading day-to-day manufacturing operations while ensuring safety, quality, on-time delivery, cost control, and employee engagement. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring someone who can solve problems on the fly, understand how things are built, and keep teams focused and productive. The right candidate will be a strong self-leader, capable of independent decision-making, and comfortable spending about 50% of their time coaching, guiding, and closely managing the workforce to maintain performance and accountability.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with other departments to meet production schedule and shipping deadlines
- Review work orders and schedule work according to customer timeline and shipping lead times
- Provide expertise in Quality Control, training and department efficiency
- Follow current training procedures to ensure all employees are trained properly on processes and equipment
- Implement ways to help the department thrive through efficiency and automatization and devise strategies to increase productivity and improve operations
- Control inventory and monitor consumable usage
- Coordinate each team member on a project/task
- Monitor the progress of daily production
- Inspect finished product to ensure it is built according to specification and safety regulations
- Attendance and engagement in weekly production meetings
Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years of leadership experience, preferably in a manufacturing plant
- Working knowledge of spray and plastics processes and equipment used in production
- Must have understanding of technical aspects of manufacturing metals, composites, mold making and woodworking
- Must be able to read and understand construction plans
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must pass a drug screen and background check
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
Education:
- High school diploma or GED
Requirements:
- Provide expertise and guidance to the team
- Managing employees, work together to overcome challenges and create policies or practices to ensure the success of the team
- Communicating with the team regularly
- Resolve conflict within the team
- Coordination with training new staff
- Completing and conducting employee performance reviews
Competencies:
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
- Must have a production-driven mindset
- Ability to lead others objectively and fairly
- Detail oriented
- Analytical thinker with ability to take concepts and apply them to new problems with creativity to achieve a solution
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to effectively motivate, train and coach others
- Ability to show consistent use of the following competencies: delegating, clear and concise communication, composure, planning, multitasking, time
- Management, decisive decision making, fairness, dependability, positivity, and integrity
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, Teams)
- Results oriented with a drive for continuous improvement
- Must be able to withstand extreme temperatures (heat, cold) for the duration of an 8 or 10 shift
- Must be able to work overtime as needed
Schedule:
Friday–Sunday: 6am-6:30pm, paid for 40 hours.
Training Schedule:
Training will take place over two weeks on weekdays with the following hours:
Monday – Thursday: 6:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday: 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM