American born, American based company that revolutionized the U.S. pool cleaning industry by introducing the first robotic pool cleaner in 1982, is looking to hire a top Sales and Customer Service Manager for its plant in Cedar Grove, NJ.

Main Responsibilities

• Management and supervision of the manufacturing site in New Jersey, including production, purchasing and inventory control.

• Responsible for the definition of processes and organization of the different areas in coordination with its managers.

• Responsible for defining and ensuring the manufacturing budget, new projects and improvements.

• In coordination with the sales team, responsible for the production planning and needs in terms of staff and materials.

• Oversee the staff needs and organization according to the production levels.

• Active participation in interdisciplinary teams in charge of new product development, as expert to evaluate the plant’s capacity and needs to start the manufacturing of these new products.

• Responsible for ensuring the compliance with labor laws, schedules, discipline and health and safety actions in the workshop.

• Oversee the purchasing department, ensuring the materials needs in terms of time, quality and cost.

• Strive for a culture of continuous improvement, leading the required changes in processes, mentality and staff.

• Supervision, training, disciplinary actions and planning of the workers in the plant.

• Coordinate all the maintenance activities in the workshop and the offices.

• Collaboration with other manufacturing companies of the Group to update procedures, learn and import technologies, take advantage of existing knowledge, etc.

• University Degree in Mechanical / Electronic Engineering or similar background.

• Consolidated professional with minimum 5 years experience as responsible for a whole operations department, in a local company or Production Manager in a big facility.

• Good knowledge of production of technological products with different mechanical and electronic components acquired in any industry with production of different models and short-batch manufacturing.

• Highly desirable specialization in plant management, post-graduation to specialize in the management of a production facility

• Experienced having production teams under his responsibility, project development, advising on production technologies, import of technologies, analyze investments, control of costs and budgets

• Strong knowledge and experience on production of short batches of products with many different components.

• Project management to implement lean concepts and new products manufacturing

• Experience in the optimization and improvement of efficiency in the manufacturing area, setting procedures and defining processes.

• Global vision to coordinate the manufacturing area according to the needs of the rest of activities of the company

• Able to start up new projects of product manufacturing and to get involved personally in the improvement of the production facility. 

• Good communication skills, engineer thinking but open minded enough to participate in interdisciplinary teams

• Able to work with different kind of people, from different cultures and origins.

• Good management skills, able to win trust and credibility.