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The position provides operational leadership for manufacturing departments, directly managing one or more front line supervisors within assigned area(s) to support an engaged culture and to help ensure excellence in safety, quality, productivity, and cost control. Responsibilities include eliminating waste in the overall value stream, ensuring that the value stream meets or exceeds customer requirements, and ensuring that all work within the value stream is conducted in a safe and secure manner.

Essential Functions:

Provide direct leadership and support for front line supervisor(s)

on a daily basis

Ensure all safety systems, processes, and policies are being adhered

to at all times

Develop strategies and goals that will meet the product line

objectives

Actively promote a culture of continuous improvement

Prepare and utilize Lean tools and techniques to eliminate waste and

improve processes

Lead and mobilize associates inside and outside of the value stream

to enable required changes

Lead day-to-day activities to ensure that current commitments are

achieved and improvements are made

Execute the master production schedule, including long and

short-range capacity planning

Communicate departmental, divisional, and Company information to all

employees on a regular basis

This position reports to the Plant Manager and may have 1- 3 direct

reports with approx.. 75-125 indirect reports

Other duties as assigned

Working Environment and Physical Efforts:

Work is performed in both an office and factory setting, with approximately 60% of the time being spent moving around different areas of manufacturing and shipping areas. The incumbent is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time, as well as talk and listen on the phone and in personal conversations or meetings. This position will be exposed to all hazards located at manufacturing sites including noise, fumes, excessive heat/cold, dust, welding arc, all chemicals associated with the manufacturing areas, fire, smoke, unstable debris and confined spaces. Environment is fast-paced and demanding most of the time. Travel as needed less than 5-10%. This position will support multiple shift operations.

The employee is frequently required to use hands to fingers, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms while working in the office with various files and forms and while working on the computer. Incumbent must utilize proper ergonomic safeguards such as monitor height and positions, keyboard location and height and proper wrist rests. The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds in working with large files, binders, computer equipment and shop equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Valmont Industries

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