Alfa Laval

Team Manager 1st Shift - Production

In short

This onsite Team Manager role in Richmond, VA leads a production/manufacturing team at Alfa Laval, driving order execution, safety, quality, delivery and cost performance. It requires high shop floor presence (70-80% of time), running capacity/scheduling and performance meetings, managing cost accounts, and executing audits per the Alfa Laval Production System. Candidates need a Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent, 2+ years of relevant production experience, improvement tool experience (5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen), production finance knowledge, and leadership skills.

About the job
As an integral member of our team, you will play a pivotal role being responsible for driving customer order execution, according to agreed plan and in line with our priorities, safety, quality, delivery, and cost. You will coordinate between different processes and support functions. While maintaining a high floor presence to see and reduce the waste from the processes and improve team engagement.
Currently, this is an onsite opportunity located in Richmond, VA.
As a part of the team, you will:
•Secure safety of the people, processes and manufactured/delivered products (quality, delivery, cost).
•Run capacity & scheduling meetings with other team managers and team leaders - Escalate and work closely with other support functions to ensure the resources (man/machine/material) for short & long period of time.
•Secure the quality, via SOP (standard operating procedures) writing, auditing and updating time to time.
•High shop floor presence (@70-80% of the available time) to drive performance of the team and employees and improvement activities like 5S, KAIZENs etc.
•Manage own cost accounts like people cost, consumables, repairs, rework etc.
•Drive performance meetings, improvement meetings and related activities.
•Control quality, deviations and line stops.
•Set and follow up targets for the team and each employee, broken down from unit level.
•Execute perform audits according to ALPS (Alfa Laval Production System).
•Maintain the inventory accuracy in primary areas of work by working closely with the team leads and cycle counter and make the necessary improvements.
•Run improvement activities in the areas of ergonomics, standard times, rework & scrap etc to support the business processes.
•Develop owns and teams standard work for the primary areas.
As part of the recruitment process, Alfa Laval applies Pymetrics assessments; upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.
What you know:
You have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent knowledge, or equivalent experience and:
•2+ years of experience from relevant area in a production/manufacturing company
•Experience from improvement tools, e.g. 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen
•Production finance
•Leadership and management skills
While Alfa Laval typically welcomes applicants from all locations, currently they are prioritizing candidates who reside in the US or have an established presence in the area.
What's in it for you?
We offer a challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval's future success. Our benefits-eligible associates enjoy healthcare, dental and vision plans, a robust wellness program, generous 401(k), paid holidays, paid time off benefits, and more. The base salary for this role is typically $90,000 - $100,000.

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