Process Improvement and Engineering Manager

CRAFT MEETS COMFORT. At Resident, we believe your living space shouldn’t just look good, it should feel good. That’s why we’ve created a house of brands that focuses on quality materials, timeless style, and most importantly, comfort. Our current brands include the award-winning Nectar, DreamCloud, Awara, and Siena products and we continue to invest in new categories to broaden our offering and address our customer's needs.

Since our inception in 2017, Resident has become one of the fastest-growing, scaled, and profitable omnichannel retailers in North America. We are a disruptor in the broader home furnishings category underpinned by deep and proven expertise in data science & analytics, performance marketing, and e-commerce technology. As our business continues to grow, we are focused on building world-class retail, finance, operations, logistics, data science, performance marketing, and customer success-driven teams that thrive in a modern work environment.

 At Resident, our staff is dedicated to the values of Excellence, Customer Love, Big Thinking, Inclusivity, and Forward Momentum.

Summary/Objective

In this brand-new exciting role the Process Improvement and Engineering Manager will be responsible for the ongoing building and maintaining of equipment and ensuring high performance and quality in our new manufacturing plant located in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Reporting into the Plant General Manager, the Process Improvement and Engineering Manager will effectively lead the design process of manufacturing quality products that meet and exceed our customer's expectations, while also ensuring we remain profitable and meet and exceed company goals and quotas.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Work closely with our Partners to ensure the plant is up and running on the current planned dates, at rated output and costs. 
• Develop overall processes and plans for building and maintaining equipment, both preventative and reactive.
• Develop and execute the staffing plans in support of engineering efforts for the facility.
• Drive key line performance metrics to budget and build a plan for continuous improvement by employing LEAN and Six Sigma principles into the processes and using data to drive decisions.
• Work closely with the Product Engineering team to develop the product and incoming process specs for the plant. 
• Propose and Implement equipment safety changes, working closely with our partners.
• Design and install additional equipment, as needed, to support production plans and product diversity.
• Capital project planning and execution.
• Oversee the development of training and standard work to facilitate production and quality goals.
• People management of the Engineering and Maintenance team.
• Design, implement and manage the operational processes for the plant.
• Design, implement, track and analyze key process data and use it to drive additional process output and productivity.
• Actively collaborate with the plant and operations team to deliver key metrics and implement new products and processes.

Skills/Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience as Plant Engineering Manager in an automated plant environment with facility startup experience.
• Strong technical capabilities with at least a BS in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Preferred)
• Experience in managing equipment and building maintenance.
• Demonstrated, highly effective people manager.
• Strong and effective communications skills.
• Quality Management experience.
• Demonstrated experience with LEAN and Six Sigma concepts.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Ability to interact with all employees in the organization
• Champion constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate the bottlenecks.
• Experience with networked communication and data collection systems and software.
• Ability to develop KPIs and drive improvements.

  What we offer (subject to eligibility requirements):

• Competitive pay
• Additional financial incentives throughout the year
• Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
• HSA company contributions
• 401K company match contributions
• Generous PTO
• Wellness benefits
• In-person learning resources & trainings
• FREE MATTRESS plus an awesome Friends and Family discount!

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions. The employee is often required to stand for extended periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Employees may be required to lift 10-50 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The employee will generally be housed in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. Personal Protective Equipment is provided and required.

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign responsibilities to this job at any time.

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