Production Unit Manager (TBR)

Company: Hankook Tire
Location: Brentwood
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Process Design Unit Manager
Department: TP)Technology Team
Shift: Core business hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
Direct Report: TP)Technology Team Manager
About the Manager positionWe are looking for an experienced Manager to identify process improvement opportunities, reduce errors, improve process results and reduce costs. You will maintain and generate documentation of existing processes and improvements, forecast expected results of process improvements, analyze implemented improvements and make continuous adjustments to workflows. Ensure audit readiness at all times, lead and manage the Process Design Unit processes and staff. The role requires performing Process Qualification (PQ), stabilizing production processes, and optimizing productivity for newly established operations. Develop and implement a structured training program for new engineers and operational staff to ensure the rapid establishment of technical expertise and operational proficiency in the new plant.Manager responsibilities are:

• Actively support and drive a Safety Always Culture, a 5S workplace, consistent up, down, and across communication and continuous improvement as a way of work life.
• Manage human and material resources to meet TP's target requirements.
• Maintain existing operating conditions and rapidly identify improvement opportunities to optimize
• Lead, demonstrate, and enforce TP safety protocols, compliance/ regulatory requirements, reporting, administration, budgeting, supplier base, customer expectations, etc.
• To improve continuously safety, quality and production, create initiatives, analyze data, perform root cause analysis, apply effective methodologies and permanently solve problems, and work to identify opportunities to continue process improvement and equipment uptime
• All Implementation of technology team are performed on Tennessee Plant strategy
• Manage all specification and standard for process optimizing, improving and creating
• Monitor and assess performance of staff and hold staff to operational and leadership expectations; conduct performance appraisals; take immediate actions when underperformance is identified
• Lead and manage staff, ensure responsibilities are understood, hold others accountable, ensure consistency and never accept the status quo as acceptable
• Ensure efficient and effective collaboration between departmental suppliers and customers with regular communication and information
• Lead and coordinate process improvement implementation teams to ensure bottom-up and across the organization input and involvement to drive a continuous improvement mind-set
• Arrange and coordinate internal and external audit preparation and organizational readiness
• Regularly communicate with TP's departments, R&D and G.HQ to gather input and provide feedback relative to process improvement so that related departments can work organically
• Develop training materials, organize and provide timely and relevant training utilizing methods to ensure understanding and immediate application
• Manage budget and identify and drive cost control initiatives
• Analyze the differences between existing and new processes to establish the most efficient operational strategies, ensuring the newly expanded plant achieves its target performance levels
• Plan and execute structured training programs for new engineers and production personnel to accelerate technical capability development for an additional plant
• Lead product development processes, establish production technologies, and set quality standards to support the early mass production of new products
• Perform other duties as assignedManager requirements are:Education:
  • (Required) Bachelor's degree
  • (Preferred) Mechanical Engineering or advanced degree in a related fieldExperience:
    • (Required) Several years of mechanical engineering experience
    • (Preferred) 3+ years of managerial experience
    • (Preferred) Previous experience in the manufacturing industryPhysical Demands:
      • Must be able to frequently move about the manufacturing plant campus, general office environments, production areas, and occasionally ascend/descend stairs
      • Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time
      • Must be able to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery
      • Must be able to position self to file documents including the top and bottom drawers of file cabinets
      • Must be able to occasionally move office equipment and supplies weighing up to 25 poundsBenefits:
        • 401(k), 401(k) matching
        • Dental insurance, health insurance, vision insurance, life insurance
        • Paid Time Off
        • Paid HolidaysHankook Tire is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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