Forming Department Manager

Role Purpose

• The Forming Department Manager is responsible for providing technical input and solutions for improving productivity and efficiencies in Forming, Reforming, Fluoride crystals, and the mason shop.
• This individual will be responsible for ensuring a motivated and skilled workforce and will directly supervise the department P&Ms, team lead, and A&T’s.
• The individual will be required to assess skills, write performance reviews and recommend and/or provide training to ensure department personnel are technically competent to perform assigned tasks in the facility.
• The Corning Canton facility is a continuous operations facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development and implementation of activities in fluoride crystals, reforming, forming, and the mason shop to meet production goals, quality, and cost objectives.
• Establish priorities and works closely with Plant Engineering Manager, Plant Operations Manager, and the HR Manager to ensure the effective utilization of available resources.
• Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply.
• Work with support functional groups to ensure manufacturing plans are executed per cost and schedule goals of the plant.
• Lead projects that support manufacturing needs.
• Oversee projects within their production departments to ensure critical path, milestones and objectives are met.
• Receives and gives work assignments with general instructions.
• Directs subordinates to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies.
• Interact with subordinate supervisors, outside customers and functional peer groups at management levels - interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects/schedules, etc.
• Provides immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees, assigning tasks, and checking work at frequent intervals.
• Encompasses the direction and inspection of the performance of individuals or a team of associates who put together components to make assemblies, subassemblies, or completed units, or make or process raw materials into finished products in an industrial environment.

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 years in prior supervisory or military leadership experience
• Ability to lead multiple groups of teams to drive improvements
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business documents.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information to groups.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Supervisory experience in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.  
• Proven ability to manage teams of 50+ direct reports. 
• Union experience.
• Strong project management skills.