Industrial Planning Manager - Blytheville, AR

Direct and execute the Industrial Management Control procedure including Industrial KPI's and monthly cost management control.

Manage information flow among industrial IT systems, ensuring the correct application of company management guidelines.

Develop tools to identify improvement opportunities to increase facility competitiveness.

Analyze monthly performance, identifying deviations and work together with production and maintenance departments to define corrective actions.

Evaluate investment opportunities and feasibility.

Define with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering departments the best feasible improvement opportunities (identify problem, collaborate on defining solution and make economic evaluation of the solution).

Develop the manufacturing industrial budget.

Annual production budget includes: facility -working regime based on sales forecast, required headcount based on working regime, new performance targets (machines utilization, scheduled maintenance, quality indicators, processes yield, etc.), energy consumption models and the manufacturing cost.

Lead continuous improvement groups to improve manufacturing processes and reduce production cost.

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field.

Six (6) years of experience in a related occupation in the manufacturing industry performing each of the following: planning targets scope and objectives based on annual budget commitments, deliverables and milestones for continuous improvement projects using tools including Lead, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or Agile; identifying available resources within continuous improvement teams to define action plans, due dates and establish progress follow-up; managing project information systems by updating databases and dashboards; performing KPIs management control and data analytics using Power BI; and monitoring and evaluating project progress and performance using dashboards (Power BI and Power apps).