Fabrication Unit Manager

Country

United States of America

Location:

CAT02: Carrier -Collierville, TN 97 South Byhalia Road, Collierville, TN, 38017 USA

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

About This Role

This position manages a team of intermediate or experienced professionals in Manufacturing Operations. Establishes objectives and guidelines for managing and monitoring cell performance and productivity. Directs scheduling and sequencing of work, as well as production innovation to optimize production.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible safety leadership and actively contribute to creating, implementing, and continuous improvement of a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with the EHS Manager.
• Provide leadership to monitor key metrics, KPIs and develop action plans achieve equipment utilization, cost attainment, quality, delivery, budget and manpower goals.
• Ensure staffing composition and skills to meet operational, reliable, customer, and financial objectives.
• Assist in preparing resource forecasts and providing input to longer-term work plans.
• Drive Carrier Excellence principles.
• Focus team on continuously seeking opportunity for improvement.
• Support, encourage, and facilitate Kaizen events to ensure related countermeasures are implemented on time and are effective improvement projects.
• Live, promote and teach the Carrier Way philosophy and recruit talented employees, participate in workforce and development planning efforts, establish clear expectations, and effectively manage performance.
• Provide training, coaching, and oversight and drive employee engagement.
• Comply with local and national labor laws and legislations to minimize labor disruptions.
• Maintain a continuous presence in the work environment and remove barriers as needed.
• Develop a strong partnership with operations and plant leadership staff to build a solid cross functional support relationship to achieve overall factory goals.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 2+ years of experience in Manufacturing Operations
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience within a unionized, manufacturing environment.
• Excellent communication skills; candidate must be comfortable providing briefings at all levels of management and interacting with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to influence decisions downstream and upstream.
• Solid understanding of lean principles to effectively create, implement and monitor process improvement initiatives.
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to effectively lead and team with multiple functional groups to reach a common objective.
• Strong business acumen.
  
  

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