Operations Manager

Purpose of the Position:

Manage mold operations and develop mold cost, quality, asset effectiveness, delivery, safety, morale, innovation targets to meet global customer request and to achieve mold manufacturing excellence.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Champion process control and change management efforts to adapt to upstream and downstream operations changes, drive improvement to process capability and mitigate resultant process variation in own department.
• Provide supervision to section supervisors, team leaders, technicians and engineers, including effective management of key resources and overall talent management objectives.
• Communicate and report department progress to plant staff, division leadership and Manufacturing Effectiveness Council (MEC).
• Build and maintain close relationships with other operations departments to share and receive feedback on upstream and downstream operations (e.g., anticipated downtime) and, in turn, optimize performance of production operations.
• Ensure the protection of Corning's Intellectual Property (IAP).
• Deploy Corning's talent management programs within the department to effectively attract, develop, and maintain manufacturing talent, ensures that all salaried employees have training and development plans.
• Establish and define expectations for manufacturing competencies within the department.
• Approve all process/equipment changes and experimental plans involving the production process, including process improvement, new product trial runs, equipment/tooling redesign, raw material, batch and/or component changes.

Required Skills:

• Be ability in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PPT skill and ERP system experience.
• Be proficient in plastic mold structure and metal processing drawing specifications.
• Understand science molding Principles and methods to achieve mold qualification quickly.
• Have Project Management Skill to integrate requests and information, and to schedule job effectively.

Desired Skills:

• Possess knowledge of resin and metal application.
• Agile management skills.

Soft Skills:

• Possess cost accounting and quantitative analysis capabilities.
• Creates effective and compelling presentations.
• Be good at inter-departmental and outsourcing communication.