Manufacturing Leader

Company Overview:

BTD is a fast-growing metalworking company. We provide custom metalwork services for some of the world's top brands. Our 1100+ employees work from four facilities throughout the Midwest and Southeast. We invest in our people, our equipment, and our facilities to offer our clients the best value possible. We are also a wholly owned subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ.

Safety is #1 at BTD:Our expectation is that every employee:1) Strictly follows safety policies, rules and safe work methods.2) Promptly corrects or reports safety hazards or unsafe conditions. Promptly reports injuries for prompt diagnosis and treatment.3) Makes regular suggestions for safety process improvements to support continuous improvement in safety.

Essential Functions:

• Communicates with Manufacturing Manager daily to ensure that the Leaders' decisions and actions are aligned with BTD's objectives for the areas of responsibility.
• Communicates with employees daily to ensure that they know and are carrying out BTD's objectives for the department, including safety, productivity, quality and timeliness.
• Assumes the responsibility to make decisions independently and then, if necessary and/or appropriate, consult the next level of management.
• Uses production schedule to appropriately prioritize equipment by department so that jobs are delivered to customers on time.
• Manage payroll information, maintain vacation, holiday, overtime forhourly employees.
• Works with fellow manufacturing leaders to ensure critical equipment and departments are staffed.
• Monitors work area to ensure that it is safe and enforces safety policies. Corrects safety deficiencies or brings them to the attention of Maintenance, Engineering or management as appropriate.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Establish performance standards, monitoring employee performance and focusing the Department's attention to areas of opportunity to maximize performance.
• Maintains ethics and integrity congruent to the Company's mission and values.
• Responsibilities include hiring, planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and assuring problems are resolved; developing leadership in all people.

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

• Graduation from high school or equivalent plus two years of related technical or three years of related on the job training. At least four years of recent supervisory manufacturing experience, which includes the following skills and abilities:
• Communicates well, using oral, written, and listening skills.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing systems, quality requirements, industrial engineering, and tool engineering.
• Ability to plan, organize, direct and coordinate manufacturing production programs including proven public relations skills.
• Ability to supervise personnel in a manner conducive to efficient performance and high morale.
• Ability to operate general office equipment including manufacturing related applications on microcomputers.

The qualifications listed above are guidelines. Other combinations of education and experience could provide the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform this job.

Compensation Salary Range: OTC10: $67,980 - $102,000 per year. The range for this position is being displayed in compliance with all state and local regulations. Salaries are set based on a number of factors to include an individual's job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education. This means that no two candidates are alike. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. The range provided above does not include additional compensation such as bonus, health benefits, vacation, 401(K) match, etc.