Company Overview:
Anagram Intl. Inc. is the consumer product balloon manufacturing division of Party City Holdings, Inc. and is the largest manufacturer of balloons in the world. At Party City Holdings, we like to have fun! We are helpful, passionate, and creative. We inspire our customers with exciting concepts, themes and ideas and provide everything they need to bring them to life. We make it easy to create unforgettable moments.
Job Overview
The Production Operations Manager is a member of the Manufacturing Leadership Team responsible for providing to the operations the execution and change management leadership, administration work process and continuous improvement using TPM, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Operational Excellence Tools. This critical role directly oversees the production operations relevant to printing, extrusion coating, slitting and prepress operations.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Provide leadership and direction in delivering the established KPI’s for existing operations and provide continuous improvement by using TPM, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools standard for the company.
- Ownership of both creating and executing Loss Analysis and Action Planning to eliminate identified losses.
- Oversee for production operations relevant to press, extrusion coating, slitting, and prepress activities. Ensuring daily priorities are executed.
- Directly oversee Supervisors and Hourly employees for 4 Operational Shifts, in total a group of near 100 people and operating budget of $10Million.
- Work closely with internal scheduling, materials logistics, suppliers, development, engineering and maintenance, customers, development, in-house graphics and pre-press as well as sales and marketing.
- Initiate and refine programs for cost reduction and waste elimination.
- Ensuring the execution of standard practices being deployed from the Technical Process Engineering office.
- Understand the fundamental elements of structure and effort required for cultural change for teams on the floor. Transforming the behaviors and practices on the floor that ensure proper execution in line with the standard current and newly deployed.
- Further develop and refine continuous training and improvement opportunities. Effectively use Party School and other standard resources and work processes.
- Identify, hire, and develop the next generation of press management and hourly personnel. Use powering achievements and role progression work processes.
- Continually instill, maintain, and upgrade quality standards within the workforce while supporting both plant and corporate quality standards and methodology.
- Ensure compliance in organizational policy and applicable laws involving the hiring, training, maintaining, rewarding, disciplining, and appraising employees.
- Maintain and continuously improve a positive work environment.
- Be the driver for print technology within the company.
- Be a coach for the Win The Shift Win The Day operational excellence practice in your area.
Skills Preferred:
- Printing experience to include flexographic web and/or rotogravure.
- Technical experience with the elements required for an efficient printing operation. Understanding of Mounting, Color Matching and Printing Setup and Changeover.
- Functional leadership experience with quality systems (e.g. ISO, SPC, 6 Sigma).
