Oversee, plan, and prioritize department activities and resources. – Establish goals and improvement measures within respective area(s). Safety, product, process and procedural quality are departmental performance drivers. – Actively participate in and sponsor productivity initiatives throughout respective area(s). – Develop, deploy, and sustain effective improvement processes to ensure maximum utilization of material and labor resources. – Continuously monitor and improve key metrics of labor & material efficiency, delivery performance, and first-time quality eliminating scrap and customer returns. – Optimize the set up/start up time of each product in each production line. – Develop a responsive manufacturing organization with clearly defined authority, responsibility, and goals.