Manager DC/Plant

Job Purpose

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving customer satisfaction goals of order fill and backlog.
• Determine proper manning requirements based on sales forecasts and production rates.
• Responsible for achieving productivity and efficiency goals through lean practices
• Ensure plant quality requirements and goals are achieved.
• Responsible for supporting the empowerment of people through the Dana style with ideas, motivation, education, communication, recognition, involvement, and safety consciousness.
• Maintain daily and monthly performance measurements for production department and recommend/implement initiatives to improve in overall performance.
• Provide leadership to first line supervisors in production departments including establishing objectives, setting goals, and managing accountability for attaining deliverables required of supervisory team.
• Actively work with the materials department and customers to assure that changes in schedules are handled in an efficient manner that meets customer expectations.
• Supervise and develop Production Supervisors, Team Leaders, and Team Members.
• Responsible for production, assembly and warehouse areas.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in related field or 10 years of manufacturing experience
• Minimum 5 years hands-on management experience in manufacturing operation
• Extensive knowledge and demonstrated accomplishment with Lean Manufacturing
• Experience in management in a warehouse distribution environment
• Union experience
• Proficient in Microsoft application
• Proficient in SAP system
• Familiarity in a technical manufacturing environment preferred
• Able to comprehend technical issues and solutions
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload and ability to meet deadlines
• Proven success in teambuilding and motivating a team through to reaching established goals
• Must be a change agent able to lead continuous improvement effort