Manufacturing Manager

American born, American based company that revolutionized the U.S. pool cleaning industry by introducing the first robotic pool cleaner in 1982, is looking to hire a top Sales and Customer Service Manager for its plant in Cedar Grove, NJ.

Main Responsibilities

• Management and supervision of the manufacturing site in New Jersey, including production, purchasing and inventory control.
• Responsible for the definition of processes and organization of the different areas in coordination with its managers.
• Responsible for defining and ensuring the manufacturing budget, new projects and improvements.
• In coordination with the sales team, responsible for the production planning and needs in terms of staff and materials.
• Oversee the staff needs and organization according to the production levels.
• Active participation in interdisciplinary teams in charge of new product development, as expert to evaluate the plant’s capacity and needs to start the manufacturing of these new products.
• Responsible for ensuring the compliance with labor laws, schedules, discipline and health and safety actions in the workshop.
• Oversee the purchasing department, ensuring the materials needs in terms of time, quality and cost.
• Strive for a culture of continuous improvement, leading the required changes in processes, mentality and staff.
• Supervision, training, disciplinary actions and planning of the workers in the plant.
• Coordinate all the maintenance activities in the workshop and the offices.
• Collaboration with other manufacturing companies of the Group to update procedures, learn and import technologies, take advantage of existing knowledge, etc.

• University Degree in Mechanical / Electronic Engineering or similar background.
• Consolidated professional with minimum 5 years experience as responsible for a whole operations department, in a local company or Production Manager in a big facility.
• Good knowledge of production of technological products with different mechanical and electronic components acquired in any industry with production of different models and short-batch manufacturing.
• Highly desirable specialization in plant management, post-graduation to specialize in the management of a production facility.
• Experienced having production teams under his responsibility, project development, advising on production technologies, import of technologies, analyze investments, control of costs and budgets.
• Strong knowledge and experience on production of short batches of products with many different components.
• Project management to implement lean concepts and new products manufacturing.
• Experience in the optimization and improvement of efficiency in the manufacturing area, setting procedures and defining processes.
• Global vision to coordinate the manufacturing area according to the needs of the rest of activities of the company.
• Able to start up new projects of product manufacturing and to get involved personally in the improvement of the production facility.
• Good communication skills, engineer thinking but open minded enough to participate in interdisciplinary teams.
• Able to work with different kind of people, from different cultures and origins.
• Good management skills, able to win trust and credibility.