Production Floor Manager

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This position reports to

Manufacturing Unit Manager

Your role and responsibilities

The Production Floor Manager (or Job Shop Manager) is responsible for ensuring efficiency and cost-effective production results that meet order demand, specifications, quality, and planning targets through the coordination and management of plant equipment, personnel, and production processes (quantity, quality, budgeted costs, and proper productivity level). In this role you will ensure customer satisfaction through effective management of the production order cycle. Our mission is to perform consistently and deliver value-added services to our customers with the highest level of quality exceeding customer expectations. This is an on-site position based in Florence, SC. This role is contributing to the Electrification Services Division in the United States You will be mainly accountable for: • Resource allocation: Organizes and allocates resources to effectively and efficiently meet line production targets. Responds to resource issues as necessary. Leads capacity planning and resource optimization for the assigned area. • Production scheduling and planning: Plan and schedule work to meet or exceed customer commitment dates (ROTD/OTD). Forecast ROTD/OTD, Revenue from backlog. • Production execution: Ensures execution of volume, conforming product, and on-time delivery targets for the assigned production lines. • Operations improvement: Identifies deficiencies in production area, proposes improvement activities, and oversees implementation of actions to improve production performance. Partner with QA, Purchasing, Engineering and other key leaders in the ELSE aftermarket team to develop metrics and improvement activities to support continued operational excellence.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years of experience in manufacturing environment, or HS Diploma and at least 10 years of experience in manufacturing or job shop environment.
• Previous leadership and management experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably a job shop.
• Knowledge of scheduling and production control processes
• Knowledge of supply chain insourcing and outsourcing decisions and process.
• Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required. Must be able to motivate and coach the team to maximize performance.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

More about us

ABB's Service Division partners with our customers to improve the availability, reliability, predictability and sustainability of electrical products and installations. The Division's extensive service portfolio offers product care, modernization, and advisory services to improve performance, extend equipment lifetime and deliver new levels of operational and sustainable efficiency. We help customers keep resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them, and then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of their useful life. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ABB ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, applicants may request to review the Affirmative Action Plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762. Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner. #LI-Onsite myBenefitsABB.com