Summary:
SUMMARY
Directs and coordinates activities of Receiving and Material Handling by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Provides day-to-day guidance and leadership to Material Handling leaders to help them effectively plan work, direct team activities, establish priorities and resolve complex problem situations- Ensures subordinate leaders and their employees receive appropriate training/coaching to meet and exceed job expectations. Identifies, recruits, and develops employees as future leaders
- Monitors material transfers between PGT sites for operational efficiency and inventory DMR disposition.
- Establishes work-measurement program, metrics, and key performance indicators.
- Motivates and encourages all team members to actively participate in 5S initiatives, achieving/sustaining world class levels. Develops all team members and provides the proper training and tools to achieve quality at the source across the product line(s).
- Coaches and encourages active participation by all team members in problem solving activities helping them develop their skills utilizing Lean tools
- Evaluates team and individual performance
- Researches and deploys short- and long-term improvements to improve safety and efficiency
- Researches and helps develop short- and long-term improvements to material handling processes to maximize efficiency, improve throughput and maintain safety.
- Determines resource needs across shifts and plants
- Provides positive and negative feedback to employees verbally and in writing
- Ensures that work processes are implemented uniformly across shifts and plants
- Anticipates future needs to support growth and determines resource and capital support requirements
- Actively drives and ensures all team members are engaged and focused on creating a safe work environment
- Establishes material handling and quality control standards and develops and administers cost controls to effectively produce products
- Monitors achievement of profitability goals as set by leader
- Provides material handling decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
- Improve the operational systems, processes, and policies in support of PGT’s mission - specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures to meet customer needs and corporate objectives regarding product service.
- Participates in meetings with key personnel to review, discuss and refine the material flow
- Identifies specific operator knowledge/skill requirements and communicates recruitment and training needs to Human Resources and Workforce Development.
- Helps develop or revise standard operational and working practices and verifies that subordinate leaders require worker compliance with standards.
- Leads/facilitates continuous improvement activities to drive improvement in safety, quality, delivery and cost through Kaizen and other world class techniques
- Ensures proper support/coordination of line trials and production training including start-up and debug.
- Participates in post-project evaluation of new product introductions.
- Plans material operations, ensuring priorities, sequences and operational schedules for manufacturing products in accordance with company practices.
- Reviews production and operating reports to help determine material handling constraints and creates plan to improve
- Confers with subordinate leaders and co-workers in cross functional leadership
- Provides positive and negative feedback to employees verbally and in writing. Documents feedback through Confirmation of Conversations (COC).
- Conducts or participates in annual performance reviews for employees
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Leads salaried leaders, hourly leaders, and hourly employees
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the
knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Dealing with Complexity, Informing Others, Leadership, Supervision, Hardware Specifications, Manufacturing Methods and Procedures, Manufacturing Quality, Product Development, and Presenting Technical Information.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree required
- Supply Chain/Logistics Certifications preferred (Certification by National Association of Purchasing Management and/or C.P.M. Certification (through Institute for Supply Management) or APICS Certification, CLA, CLT)
- Six to ten years of experience in receiving, shipping, or warehouse operations with at least five years of experience as a leader
- Proficient in MS Office (Word/Excel)
- Strategic planner with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus
- An energetic, forward thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image
- Experience in lean manufacturing and world class manufacturing best practices
- Ability to analyze data and develop data-based solutions.
- Must be able to work without supervision and manage under stress to meet deadlines.
- Budget development and oversight experience desirable
LANGUAGE / COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Must demonstrate excellent written and verbal skills to communicate effectively at all levels of the Company.
- Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
- Ability to develop and coach team members
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
College level mathematical skills
REASONING ABILITY
- Strong logic skills to understand and organize workflow
- Ability to conceptualize effects of changes on interrelated activities
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Ability to apply principles of logical or analytical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
- Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases.
- Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
- Must be able to analyze situations promptly and accurately.
- Must have ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical decision-making skills.
- Ability to form good judgments in critical situations.
- Must be able to deliver results through others.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
None
PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT
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.
- Manufacturing floor and office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing. Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery. Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.
- Minimal physical demands, such as occasional bending, stooping, and walking.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
Ability to travel occasionally domestically.
Occasional: activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.
Frequent: activity exists 1/3 and 2/3 of the time.
Who We Are:
At PGT Innovations, we may build and support high-quality, innovative windows and doors, but every day holds opportunities for us to do so much more – from building stronger teams through leading, supporting, mentoring, and collaborating, to fostering better relationships with our customers.
WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
Every day we look for opportunities to grow and achieve greatness – together.
This isn’t an “everyone for themselves” environment. Here, we look out for each other. We help each other. We prop each other up during challenging times.
Because inventing, building, and delivering the future of windows and doors is not a one-person job. It takes all of us.
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Our collaborative group.
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Our understanding family.
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Our strong team.
Working together to inspire greater opportunity for our customers, our community, and our team members.
WHAT WE OFFER
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Competitive compensation
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Career advancement opportunities
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Medical coverage
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Dental coverage
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Tuition reimbursement
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Employee stock purchase plan
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401k matching
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Profit sharing
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Paid time off
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Volunteer time off
PGT Innovations is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or
physical disability, marital/family/caregiver status, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local low. PGT Innovations also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.