**Position Summary - Overall Management**
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**
**1 - 6 Months Goal**
- Monitor and managing daily manufacturing operations and trigger corrective actions.
- Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day manufacturing operations to exceed our customers expectations.
- Manage and direct Production, Quality, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Plant Regulatory Compliance, EHS, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Warehouse Operations to ensure execution on production and delivery commitments.
- Work with S&OP to analyze actual demands and forecast and provide sufficient manufacturing capacity to support customers requirements, including the development and implementation of long-term capital planning.
- Coordinates all manufacturing activities with sales forecasts, demand planning, tech transfer, engineering, and quality departments to ensure that product requirements and quality standards are met.
- Ensures supply chain and manufacturing readiness for new product launches
- Develop annual operating plan for departmental budget and capital expenditure.
- Initiate and fulfill plans to upgrade manufacturing, improve quality, and lower costs.
- Examine monthly finance report and management reports for continuous improvements
- Continue efforts to comply with requirements of FDA, GMP, ISO.
- Lead to reengineer manufacturing data base, strengthen production planning, and ship on time.
- Assure compliance of environment protection regulations and safety standards.
- Be responsible for production output, product quality, and on-time shipping.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Enable high levels of workforce engagement between production workers and front-line supervisors.
- Increase production, assets capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining quality standards.
**6 12 Months Goal**
- Ultimately responsible for all production activities, plant operations, quality, and P/L.
- Lead to build up the companys efficiency, competitiveness, and higher quality.
- Benchmark and establish targets for manufacturing efficiencies, safety metrics, inventory turns, inventory obsolescence and monitoring results to ensure targets are met or exceeded.
- Manages all capital projects to ensure implementation is within timeline, budget and expected payback.
- Responsible for setting performance standards and the development of employees.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Implement all State and Federal regulatory safety ad good manufacturing practices requirements (FDA, OSHA, EPA, etc.)
- Estimate production costs and present the budgets.
- Run LEAN operations, tighten material control, trim labor wastes.
- Building up management teams; recruiting, motivating, and evaluating.
- Propose and fulfill annual plans of upgrading manufacturing improvement action plans.
- With in-depth cosmetic knowledge and experience, upgrade our cosmetic manufacturing.
- Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
- Address employees issues or grievances.
- Build and develop talent within manufacturing to support organizational demand and future succession.
- Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
- Communicate with senior management on tactics, progress, and strategies.
- Assist in the identification of key areas for cost reduction and utilize resources to drive waste elimination and reduce costs while increasing capacity.
- Perform other duties as needed and directed by management.
**Minimum Qualifications**
**Education & Experience**
- BS Degree in Chemistry, Biology and/or Business Management or related field, masters degree preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of hands-on work experience within a manufacturing plant at manager-level or higher; preferred in Cosmetic Manufacturing Industry
- Proven managerial experience leading large team
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Adequate knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and human resources)
- Must be able to report, interpret, and summarize business and financial information to the executive team
- Familiarity with industry standard equipment and technical expertise
- Be knowledgeable of safety, cost control, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and processes
- Ability to create accountability and to lead by example
- Strong team building, decision-making, and people management skills
**_Working Conditions_**_:_
- Good working conditions, with the absence of disagreeable conditions._
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**Salary**:
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- Pay commensurate with experience._
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**Benefits**:
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- Comprehensive benefits package following company policies._