The Maintenance Manager provides technical, mechanical and electrical support throughout the manufacturing facility with a heavy focus on preventive maintenance and safe workplace practices. Responsible for the planning, scheduling, assignment, and coordination and/or execution of the activities to ensure equipment availability that supports production, and the facility needs.

Position Responsibilities

• Equipment strategy, design, and planning. Planning is tied to equipment arrivals.
• Implementing a predictive, reactive, or preventative maintenance approach.
• Supervise maintenance staff including maintenance engineers and technicians.
• Tracking expenses and overseeing the budget for maintenance.
• Maintaining all machinery to ensure it’s at working standards.
• Creating and implementing maintenance procedures.
• Conducting regular inspections of the facilities to detect and resolve problems.
• Planning and managing all repair and installation activities.
• Ensuring all department workers adhere to the safety policies and procedures.
• Assigning repair schedules and evaluating repair cost estimates.
• Documenting and preparing daily progress reports and maintenance logs.
• Overseeing equipment stock and placing orders for new supplies when necessary.
• Manage relationships with outside sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Monitor equipment inventory and place orders when necessary.
• Monitor electrical and other machinery to ensure functionality.
• Plan and oversee all repair and installation activities for the manufacturing facility.
• Maintain maintenance logs and report on daily activities.
• Ensure health and safety policies are complied with.
• Tracking expenses, reporting progress, and assigning schedules.
• Distributing all required material to suppliers/contractors before coming on site.
• Health and safety management. Understand the significant HSE risks for which you have principal responsibility and ensure controls are implemented.
• Report and help track metrics to be communicated to leadership that track KPIs, cost, powered and non-powered equipment performance and overall maintenance standards.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred or successful completion certificate from a vocational school.
• Strong knowledge of engineering concepts, including electrical, robot, thermal heating systems and mechanical systems, in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experience in planning maintenance operations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Outstanding organization and leadership abilities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with team members.
• Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
• Ability to perform at high levels in a fast-paced ever-changing work environment.

The Logistics Manager is the lead position to oversee the material movement and holds the exclusive responsibility of the department to control inventory. The Logistics Manager will be responsible for the creation and implementation of best practice logistics vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.

Position Responsibilities

• Manage inventory as well as warehouse, transportation, and other logistics processes.
• Develop new strategies to streamline processes and reduce cost.
• Ensure that quality, quantity, customer satisfaction, and financial commitments are met.
• Perform metrics reporting and data analysis tasks to identify issues and opportunities for process improvements.
• Manage and develop logistics’ staff.
• Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product delivery.
• Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports.
• Review impact of logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or carriers and report results to others.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, identify inefficiencies, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Identify and resolve any inventory discrepancies and ensure inventory records are accurate.
• Keep track of slow moving and obsolete stock.
• Identify savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics process.
• Manage, coach, and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives and delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
• Set departmental objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance.
• Ensure products are shipped appropriately, on time, and ensure quality of goods during transportation.
• Take responsibility for accuracy of labelling to ensure correct parts/finished assemblies.
• Ensure compliance with import/export regulations/customs regulations and legal and health and safety requirements.

Position Requirements

• Prior experience of working in logistics/supply chain/transportation function within the manufacturing environment with a comprehensive knowledge of logistics processes.
• High degree of knowledge and understanding of a variety of manufacturing, glass processes and components and of supply chain management.
• Strong IT systems knowledge, skills including knowledge, and understanding of specialist systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Bill of Material (BOM) and customer data systems.
• Fork truck qualified and capable of operating general heavy equipment including heavy loaded hoist.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Proven analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities.

The Automation Engineer performs system and tool level programming, new machine installation, tool upgrades and troubleshooting for various programs, industrial robotics, and production systems. This position will work with a large variety of equipment and technical systems, including, but not limited to: PLC systems, production robots, Servo systems, and SCADA systems.

Position Responsibilities

• Support production by troubleshooting and programming existing and new plant automation.
• Program and design new and existing PLC controls.
• Travel to multiple plants as needed for completion of core job functions.
• Maintain accurate and consistent schedules for projects and tasks for multiple plant projects.
• Programming of robots and touching up points as needed to support production needs.
• Working with production and process to optimize line flow, cycle time issues and quality concerns through changes in programming or troubleshooting of controls.
• Program and design new and existing PLC controls.
• Help plan preventative maintenance plans for equipment in the plant, both new and current.
• Work to help develop new technology for the plant to utilize in efforts to improve cycle times and quality detection/prevention systems.
• Help train plant technicians and engineers on automation related skills.

Position Requirements

• BSEE or BSME Degree or equivalent required.
• 3-5 Years of experience programming and troubleshooting PLCs and Robots.
• 1-3 Years of Allen Bradley or equivalent programming experience a plus.
• High level of understanding of Fanuc or equivalent robot operations.
• Demonstrated understanding of Ethernet cabling, addressing and networking.
• Understanding of basic concepts of MMIs, familiar with PanelView Plus and PanelView hardware.
• Demonstrated understanding of Cognex/Keyence vision systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ladder logic programming, PLC 5, SLC500, ControlLogix, MicroLogix, and Ethernet I/P.
• Demonstrated understanding of AC and DC motors and servo systems.
• Working knowledge of Kinetix and PowerFlex drives.
• Advanced skill level with Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to use RS Net Worx software, RS View Studio and Panel Builder software.
• Ability to perform electrical troubleshooting and read electrical prints.
• Ability to design, diagnose, and troubleshoot vision applications.
• Ability to connect to PLC and navigate programming software.
• Hands-on approach to problem solving and analysis.

The Human Resources Manager – Manufacturing will be responsible for coordinating the implementation of people-related services, policies, and programs at our first production facility. The Human Resources Manager will assist and advise company managers about Human Resources issues.

Position Responsibilities

• Recruiting and staffing for a manufacturing facility.
• Organizational departmental planning.
• Performance management and improvement systems.
• Organization development.
• Employment and compliance to regulatory concerns regarding employees.
• Employee onboarding, development, needs assessment, and training.
• Policy development and documentation.
• Employee relations.
• Company-wide committee facilitation.
• Company employee and community communication.
• Compensation and benefits administration.
• Employee safety, welfare, wellness, and health.
• Employee services and counseling.
• Compensation research and management.
• Maintains payroll files to ensure accurate pay and deductions with PEO provider.
• Ensures all payroll records and personnel files are accurate and complete.
• Work with PEO provider on workers’ compensation filing and reports.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in human resources or related field.
• Previous recruitment experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Excellent time-management, planning, and organizational skills and ability to multi-task, while attending to detail, and meet the demands of multiple deadlines.
• Maintain high quality/standards of work, leadership, ethics, commitment, and professional responsibility and judgment.
• Ability to work independently with little instruction, take initiative, and utilize creative problem solving. Ability to interpret, communicate and apply policies and procedures.
• Thinks critically and resolves problems, responds to emerging problems in an accurate and timely manner. Where possible, leverages available resources to address situations before they occur.

The Facilities Manager will be responsible for performing many maintenance, safety and management tasks that promote a clean and safe working environment for the manufacturing site employees. The Facilities Manager must help build the infrastructure, processes, and capabilities necessary to support high volume manufacturing.

Position Responsibilities

• Property strategy, design, and planning. Planning is tied to equipment arrivals.
• On and off-site building management including local government requirements.
• Implementing a predictive, reactive, or preventative maintenance approach.
• Contract management regarding factory assignments for third parties.
• Workspace management in AutoCAD or similar tool.
• Maintenance of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC).
• Lighting, plumbing, and electrical inspections.
• Ensuring fire safety systems are in working order.
• Providing emergency responses – spill, fire department, or police department.
• Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
• Building security and hourly time functions.
• Waste management services and SDS material sheets.
• Tracking expenses, reporting progress, and assigning schedules.
• Coordinating contractor work along with unscheduled work.
• Distributing all required material to vendors/contractors before coming on site.
• Maintaining fork truck logs and maintenance cost.
• Health and safety management. Understand the significant HSE risks for which you have principal responsibility and ensure controls are implemented.
• Provide constructive feedback to peers on a regular basis.
• Report and help track metrics to be communicated to leadership that track KPIs, cost, powered and non-powered equipment performance and overall building maintenance standards.

Position Requirements

• Associate degree in Facilities, Construction Management, Business, or a related field and a minimum of 5-years progressive experience in Facilities or Construction Management required or a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.
• Environmental Health and Safety Certification with Hazmat/HAZWOPER experience.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Excellent time-management, planning, and organizational skills and ability to multi-task, while attending to detail, and meet the demands of multiple deadlines.
• Maintain high quality/standards of work, leadership, ethics, commitment, and professional responsibility and judgment.
• Ability to work independently with little instruction, take initiative, and utilize creative problem solving. Ability to interpret, communicate and apply policies and procedures.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and hazard free work environment for maintenance associates, visitors, and production personnel with good housekeeping habits and by attending or conducting classes on OSHA programs such as lock out-tag out and MSDS training.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines, shift priorities and reassign workload and projects according to those shifting priorities.
• Able to work with technical and non-technical business owners/partners to improve understanding, buy in and overall support while simultaneously overcoming those obstacles and delivering results.
• Organizes and executes with accuracy, leverages a systematic, efficient, and organized approach while ensuring quality and accuracy of results.
• Thinks critically and resolves problems; responds to emerging problems in an accurate and timely manner. Where possible, leverages available resources to address situations before they occur.
• Demonstrated knowledge of process equipment maintenance.
• Emergency electrical generator and switchgear systems experience.