Section Manager

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Title: Section Manager

Status: Salary

Company: Precision Castparts Corp. is a worldwide, diversified manufacturer of complex metal components and products. It serves the aerospace, power generation, and general industrial markets. PCC is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, and forged components used in jet aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines. The Company is also a leading producer of highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace, and other general industrial markets and supplies metal alloys and other materials to the casting and forging industries. PCC Airfoils, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Precision Castparts Corp. The Airfoils Division manufactures complex highly technical investment casting for turbine engine applications used in commercial jet engines, military jet engines, helicopters, and industrial gas turbines.

Reporting

Relationship: Reports directly to Plant Manager

Location: Douglas, GA

Education: Bachelor's degree in business or engineering related curriculum. Extensive training in manufacturing, accounting, manufacturing processes leadership, group motivation and behavior.

Personal Characteristics: Able to meet deadlines and be accountable for quality/ quantity. Able to work flexible hours with a history of dependability as demonstrated with strong attendance record. Comfortable using a team approach to problem solving. Have strong sense of urgency. Individual must be a motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently. Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers and supervisors.

Work Experience: Background in related area of Engineering, Operations, and Material Management. Successful experience in related production operations with a minimum 7-10 years in supervision and management.

Principal Area of

Responsibility: Responsible for the management, directing, and coordination of manufacturing operation for designated departments. Ensures the achievement of production requirements, necessary quality and reliability requirements, on time delivery, and lowest cost. These objectives are achieved in part by delegating authority to Engineering, Information Systems, Purchasing and motivating the Mentor production workforce.

Specific Duties:

• Ensure adherence to process control procedures, operating instructions, and all quality control instructions.

• Prime responsibility to safely manufacture a quality product with minimal scrap or rework, while meeting customer specifications and delivery commitments.

• Ensures that the legal requirements and company safety policy are enforced.

• Establishes and executes annual operating budgets for area under supervision. Responsible to make or beat the budget. Takes appropriate action to correct deviations from budgets or operating plans.

• Formulates long and short-range strategies for continuous improvements for all plant manufacturing functions.

• Control quality, delivery, cost of production, work in process levels, and monitors production through manufacturing planning.

• Recommends and purchases new equipment for expansion, efficiency, cost reductions, quality or improvement.

• Maintains and enhances a team environment and motivates the Mentor production workforce.

• Any and all additional responsibilities as required or assigned.

Physical and Mental Demands:

• Incumbent must physically and mentally perform the job demands as listed below.

• The ability to handle high stress associated with high activity with tight deadlines • Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills. • Must be a team player with a strong customer orientation.

• Advanced working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques and philosophies, 5S, TOC, Six Sigma and problem solving.

• Hands-on, take charge attitude.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Relocation

Relocation is authorized for this position.

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