Operations Manager Tonawanda Ny jobs at 3m in United States, City Of Tonawanda

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Lead and manage Plant Engineering, Maintenance, Utilities, and Facilities functions to ensure uninterrupted operations and compliance with safety and quality standards.

• Management of Process engineering for the facility. Process engineering includes process improvement, process documentation and processes controls.

• Direct responsibility for functional strategic planning, including establishing and managing budgets for one or more departments in the immediate organization or the next higher organizational tier. Approves assigned programs and budget deviations as well as overall resources to meet business objectives.

• Determines priorities, timetables and assigns resources/tasks. Accountable for the activities and results of their functional area.

• Provides direct supervision to higher level professionals and lower-level managers which include objective setting, performance management, and motivating, as well as training and coaching.

• Creates solutions for complex and multi-faceted problems, which requires ingenuity, creativity, innovation, and strong analytical skills.

• Utilizes resources across work areas, departments and businesses to create solutions.

• Supervise installation, commissioning, and maintenance of production and utility equipment to support production targets

• Responsible for establishing and enforcing multiple concepts relative to the function. Working tasks might include: Develops manufacturing strategies in conjunction with fellow business leaders to ensure achievement of business objectives. Adjusts manufacturing strategies to meet changing market conditions for a medium to large sized manufacturing operation. Implements manufacturing standards and defines guidelines for assigned manufacturing disciplines such as engineering, production, quality, etc.

• Forecasts facility and manpower requirements, typically for one manufacturing site

• Assures plant equipment and processes have adequate capabilities to meet business and technology needs for production

• Coordinates operating activities so that approved products are manufactured on schedule and within quality standards and cost objectives

• Ensures maximum efficiency and productivity of production facility through just-in-time concepts and/or other cost reduction methodologies.

• Actively participates in relevant corporate programs/initiatives, complies with professional and quality standards, complies with corporate policies and procedures, and acts in a manner consistent with 3M’s values and ethical standards.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)

• Ten (10) years of experience in a manufacturing environment in a private, public, government or military environment .

• Five (5) years of combined experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing setting in a private, public or military environment.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Expert/master knowledge and experience with the most current theories and practices in one or more related professional disciplines such as production, quality, engineering, materials control, warehousing, maintenance, health/safety/environment, etc.

• Broad knowledge of multiple related disciplines. Comprehensive knowledge of 3M’s global strategy, business areas, structure and organization, as well as of the external market (competitors, trends, etc.).

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Please access the linked document by clicking select the country where you are applying for employment, and review. Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Quality Systems and Continuous Improvement Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Driving existing product quality enhancement through use of continuous improvement methods and tools, such as: Six Sigma, Product and Process Understanding (PPU), Design of Experiments (DOE), Customer Quality Index (CQI) and Quality at the Source

• Serve as primary plant continuous improvement subject matter expert and be involved in the design and sustainment of plant systems

• Supporting and interacting with customers and suppliers through complaint investigations, resolution, and trending

• Ensuring the commercialized product design intent and product integrity is retained as materials, processes, methods, and specifications change

• Troubleshooting, investigating, and analyzing for non-conforming product testing and disposition

• Providing Quality Engineering support for global product launches and change management projects

• Establishing and cultivating a network of support (EHS, laboratory, quality, plant engineering, business supply chain, engineering, etc..) to facilitate completion of assignments and performance of assigned areas.

• Enhance plant PPU in cellulose manufacturing to improve and sustain production of high-quality products

• Managing documentation systems to include work instructions, process standards, technical documents, test methods etc.

• Serve as a coach/mentor for technical resources and be willing to be on call to support 24/7 manufacturing operations

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (completed and verified prior to start)

• Three (3) years of professional experience as a process/manufacturing/lean engineer, or quality engineer in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Experience in a chemical, textile, paper or similar manufacturing environment

• Ability to understand and interpret analytical chemical test results

• Experience with statistical analysis of process data and establishing process/product control standards

• Familiarity with change management processes

• Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter and strong influencing skills for working in dynamic plant environment

• Professional certification, such as Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) through American Society for Quality (ASQ)

• Experience working with established quality standards, such as ISO 9001

• Experience leading or actively participating in Quality Audits

• Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, tier systems and/or layered process audits

• Experience leading kaizen activity

Work location:

• Tonawanda, NY

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Please access the linked document by clicking select the country where you are applying for employment, and review. Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Operations Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading all Manufacturing and Logistics/Warehousing activities at the 3M Unionized Tonawanda facility

• Assuring compliance with corporate and local governmental safety, health and environmental rules, policies, and procedures

• Coordinating Operations activities such that products are manufactured on schedule and within quality standards and cost objectives

• Ensuring maximum efficiency and productivity of production facility leveraging Lean Six Sigma and other methodologies

• Actively participating in relevant corporate programs/initiatives, complies with professional and quality standards, complies with corporate policies and procedures, and acts in a manner consistent with 3M’s values and ethical standards

• Providing direct supervision to professional and support levels which include objective setting, performance management, and motivating, as well as training and coaching

Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution

• Seven (7) years of Manufacturing/Production Operations experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• MBA or master’s degree in engineering discipline

• Five (5) years of supervisory experience in a private, public, government or military environment

• LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt and/or Master Black Belt certified

• Strong analytical skills and financial acumen

• Previous work experience in a union environment

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Please access the linked document by clicking select the country where you are applying for employment, and review. Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.