Stamping Manager

About WhiteCrow

We are global talent research, insight, and sourcing specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client's in-house talent acquisition teams.

About our client

For more than 80 years, our client's engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

As a Stamping Manager, you will be responsible for...

Production Operations Management

• Managing the day-to-day operations of the Stamping Department to ensure production plans are being achieved and customer delivery requirements are being met.
• Planning and allocating production resources, monitoring production progress, and promptly coordinating the resolution of operational issues.
• Chairing departmental GO meetings, production meetings, and operational reviews, and tracking performance against targets.
• Monitoring production data and operating metrics, driving problem resolution, and implementing improvement actions.
• Reviewing and approving production-related documents, forms, work instructions, and processes.

Safety and Environmental Management

• Implementing company EHS policies and applicable regulatory requirements, and promoting a strong safety culture.
• Conducting regular workplace safety inspections and risk assessments, ensuring identified hazards are being corrected and closed out.
• Monitoring employees safe work practices to reduce the risk of injuries and safety incidents.
• Ensuring the effective implementation of 5S+1 and standardized workplace management.

Quality Management

• Taking ownership of departmental quality performance and continuously reducing scrap rates and the cost of poor quality (COPQ).
• Driving process-quality improvements to prevent and reduce customer complaints and internal quality issues.
• Leading the analysis of quality issues and implementing corrective and improvement actions.
• Supporting customer audits, management-system audits, and management reviews.

Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence

• Driving continuous-improvement projects involving OEE, QCO, VSM, automation, and related initiatives.
• Applying continuous-improvement and lean-improvement tools to continuously improve production efficiency and resource utilization.
• Promoting digital management and visual management systems, and regularly tracking improvement-project progress.
• Overseeing key departmental improvement projects and coordinating the required resources.
• Establishing and advancing initiatives for cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and waste elimination.

Cost Management

• Leading departmental budgeting and expense control.
• Continuously driving cost-improvement projects to achieve annual cost-saving targets.
• Optimizing the utilization of labor, equipment, and materials.
• Monitoring departmental operating costs and return on investment.

Team Management and Talent Development:

• Establishing and maintaining job-skill matrices to strengthen overall team capabilities.
• Managing employee performance, talent development, and succession planning.
• Guiding and coaching supervisors, team leaders, and key employees in their professional development.
• Improving employee engagement and fostering teamwork and organizational culture.
• Coordinating the resolution of employee-relations and cross-team collaboration issues.

Strategic Planning and Management Reporting

• Developing annual departmental business objectives and action plans.
• Cascading KPI targets throughout the organization and driving achievement at all levels.
• Reporting departmental operating performance and improvement progress to management on a regular basis.
• Participating in plant strategic planning and business-development projects.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Working closely with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Planning, Supply Chain, and other functions.
• Supporting new-product introduction and capacity-planning projects.
• Coordinating cross-functional resources to resolve major operational issues.
• Driving improvements in overall plant operating performance.

What you already have...

• 15+ years of experience in the stamping industry preferred.
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of manufacturing experience; a major in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of stamping processes, quality management, and equipment management.
• Familiarity with or lean manufacturing tools.
• Experience leading continuous-improvement projects.
• Excellent team leadership and people-management skills.
• Strong communication, coordination, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Project-management and continuous-improvement capabilities.
• Data-analysis and business-management skills.
• Results-oriented and customer-focused mindset.
• Strong execution skills and strategic thinking.