The Plant Manager coordinates and directs all plant production and supports operations to ensure timely delivery of quality products at optimum costs to meet corporate as well as customer goals and requirements.  This position will lead our team at our Jackson, TN plant.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure coordination and cooperation among all departments to meet goals and objectives in accordance with company policies.
• Analyze profit and loss statement variances and plan and implement corrective action when required.
• Provide inputs for establishment as well as direction to insure compliance for the annual budget.
• Approve all purchases of equipment, spare parts, materials, and machines.
• Provide work direction and development of all Department Managers.
• Provide leadership and direction for the plant's activities to obtain World Class Manufacturing status.
• Recommend, develop, administer, and support company policies and procedures and ensure compliance with all corporate, safety, and regulatory compliance standards.
• Provide leadership for problem solving in the resolution of product, quality, operational, mechanical, and personnel problems including the analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain an effective communication program to keep plant personnel informed and enhance the plant's union-free status.
• Review and approve all personnel reviews, salary changes, and new hires as well as all personnel and organizational moves.
• Coordinate production, distribution, warehousing, and sales in accordance with policies, principles, and procedures established by UGN.
• Confer with customers and representatives of associated industries to evaluate and promote improved and expanded services in area.
• Develop plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees.
• Review production costs and product quality, and modify production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of division.
• Review operations of competing organizations and plan and direct sales program to develop new markets.
• Direct preparation of accounting records.
• Recommend budgets to management.
• Directly supervise department managers in the Plant Facility who supervise Team Members in their respective departments.
• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination and evaluation of this business unit.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree from an accredited four-year college or university; and ten plus years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous Plant Management experience within the automotive industry preferred.
• Extensive project management experience.
• Strong communication and leadership skills required.
• Lean manufacturing experience and knowledge of Toyota Production Systems preferred.

To apply, please email your resume to Lisa Jurack at

lj*****@ug*.com

The Human Resources Generalist administers policies relating to all phases of human resources activity by performing the following duties.  This position is located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain knowledge of current legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting human resources functions and ensure policies, procedures, and reporting are in compliance.
• Recruit, interview, test, and select candidates to fill vacant plant positions.
• Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward company goals.
• Maintain records of personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, and terminations, and employee statistics for government reporting.
• Train management in interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review, and safety and sexual harassment compliance.
• Advise management in appropriate resolution of employee relations issues.
• Respond to inquiries regarding policies, procedures, and programs.
• Administer performance review and compensation program to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and equity within the organization.
• Administer employee absences, leaves of absence and employee assistance program.
• Assist in the administration of employee benefit plans participation.
• Investigate accidents and prepares reports for insurance carrier.
• Prepare employee separation notices and related documentation, and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.
• May indirectly supervise other employees in the Human Resources Department.

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree from four-year college or university; and two plus years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Knowledge of Human Resource systems; Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel; Payroll systems.
• Ability to train small or large groups of people.
• PHR certification is a plus.

If you are interested, please email your resume to

Mo********@ug*****.com

The Material Handler performs all driving and related functions in the movement of materials necessary for the operation of the Shipping/Receiving and Manufacturing departments.  This position is located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

Responsibilities:

• Exercise and attend pre-shift meeting; perform 5S assignments at the beginning of the shift.
• Perform pre-start checklist on forklift and turn into the shift team leader; notify team leader of any issues with dock doors or dock locks.
• Receiving activities:  Verify incoming material to packing slip for correct quantity and report any damage or discrepancies to team leader/quality.
• After receiving inspections are complete, place incoming materials in designated locations.
• Perform ISO/Poly bulk unloading procedure as required (if applicable).
• Shipping activities:  Using FIFO system, stage and verify orders to be shipped; prepare bills of loading as needed; use Future 3 System to scan in all outbound shipments; place all Kanban cards/shipping labels on the material containers for outgoing shipments.
• Notify team leader/EDI coordinator when trucks will be short shipped.
• Unload customer returns and rejected material in designated areas; notify team leader/quality.
• Manufacturing service activities:  Remove finished goods containers from the line once labeled and place into banding area or designated finished goods storage area. 'Use the DC Server Scanning system to scan all finished products into inventory.
• Using FIFO system, supply manufacturing with components, raw materials and shipping containers (removing any old shipping labels from racks/totes) as required to support production.
• Retrieve materials from outside storage building/trailers as required.
• Check release agent storage tanks three times per shift and replace empty tanks as needed.
• Maintain housekeeping in the warehouse, storage areas, and docks, removing and dumping trash or removing recyclables from these and manufacturing areas as necessary to maintain housekeeping.
• Build crates/boxes for service and export parts as required.
• Fasten plastic or metal bands around stocks, bundles or palletized articles, and designated finished product to be stored or shipped.
• Use spotter truck to switch out trailers at docks as required.
• Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED); and three plus months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous experience as a Material Handler required.
• Previous certifications and/or experience operating forklift equipment required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have ability to operate personal computer.
• Valid driver's license.

To apply, please email your resume to

Mo********@ug*****.com

The Team Leader coordinates with other work cells and departments to meet production requirements of the company and needs of the customers, with accountability for results in terms of cost, methods, quality, quantity of production, operations and personnel.  This position is located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

Responsibilities:

• Learn and assist in developing team members in all TPS (Toyota Production System) principles.
• Walk through the department with the previous team leader to address concerns with the set up of the cells, housekeeping, and any manufacturing concerns that may have occurred during the previous shift.
• Review all schedule needs daily.
• Audit the cells to determine if raw materials, equipment, or a change over is required to ensure efficient startups.
• Conduct meetings with team members at the beginning of each shift to communicate problems and concerns.
• Insure all paperwork required by the team members is available.
• Address team member concerns.
• Monitor manning needs and work with the Shift Coordinator to schedule coverage and training.
• Ensure 5-S activities are being performed and address if needed.
• Reassign team members when needed when downtime occurs.
• Monitor scrap, waste, quality and production.
• Hold bi-weekly team meetings to develop improvement plans. Follow up accordingly.
• Assist in the training of all team members. Ensure training documents are complete and update all skill training matrix forms.
• Develop standard work procedures with the cell team members and ensure adherence to the standards.
• Help with the development of Kaizen Teams.
• Ensure Job and Standard Work instructions are correct and in place.
• Conduct monthly audits with Shift Coordinator of cell job instructions, 5-S procedures, standard work instructions, and product alerts. Revise as needed.
• Train team members and manage rotation of team members.
• Ensure all daily paperwork is accurate, complete and ready to process.
• Represent UGN at customer locations when quality concerns are presented.
• Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
• Other duties may be assigned.
• Directly supervises work of Production Operators in the Production Department. Participate in new team member interviews, orientation and training.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED); and three plus months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience as a Team Leader in a production environment required - preferably in automotive manufacturing.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Manufacturing software and basic proficiency with Microsoft Office applications--Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Oracle ERP.

 To apply, please email your resume to

Mo********@ug*****.com

The Quality Technician performs all necessary quality functions within the department and production floor, such as lab testing, receiving materials, disposition of nonconforming materials and product capability studies, taking data, training of team members on customer standards and other miscellaneous testing and evaluations as necessary by the Quality Manager and carried out per TS 16949 and ISO 14001.  This position is located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

Responsibilities:

• Assist as necessary in team training to aid effective job performance.
• Be involved in operational/mechanical problems and their solutions.
• Be involved in changes to current processes to establish the most effective methods to balance quality and productivity.
• Perform miscellaneous capability studies as outlined by the Quality Manager and/or the Quality Coordinator.
• Perform all testing required to evaluate the quality of raw materials per customer inspection standard requirements.
• Perform any special laboratory evaluations to determine performance and specification of materials.
• Responsible for submitting the required parts to R & D for customer required testing.
• Maintain working knowledge of customer requirements.
• Monitor on-line quality checks for effectiveness; coordinate training as necessary to reinforce team member skills, including warehouse audits.
• Inspect and evaluate parts returned from the customer and disposition of these parts to production for sorting.
• Should be able to carry out gage calibrations; obtain outside certification of gage blocks and weights.
• Assist in evaluating manufacturing's ability to make quality decisions.
• Travel to customer locations for process related issues.
• Receive and inspect all raw materials from sub-suppliers, mark accepted or rejected.
• Notify Quality Manager when out of specification conditions exist.
• Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED); and three plus months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications--Word, Excel, Access, and Microsoft Outlook and Oracle ERP.
• Valid driver's license.

To apply, please email your resume to

Mo********@ug*****.com

 

The Production Supervisor supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing environment; plans and assigns work, implements policies and procedures and recommends improvements in production methods, equipment, operating procedures and working conditions. Ensures the customer's requirements are met safely and on time.  This position is located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

Responsibilities:

• Confer with management to establish production and quality control standards.
• Operate within the budget and cost controls to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery of products ordered.
• Plan and coordinate production activities with all plant departments.
• Establish production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
• Review and analyze all reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, operating or production problems.
• Develop and implement operating methods and procedures through appropriate channels designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality.
• Revise production schedules and priorities as a result of equipment failure or operating problems.
• Work with Process Engineering on equipment modifications in order to improve production and quality of products.
• Perform as key member of BAMA, TPS, and TPM activities.
• Oversee Maintenance, Quality and Materials on the off-shifts as needed.
• Compile, store, and retrieve production data.
• Participate in production when personnel shortages or production challenges occur.
• Overnight travel to customer location may be required to support product related quality issues.
• Directly supervises team members per shift in the department. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of Team Members. Monitors daily activities of Maintenance, Quality and Shipping personnel on the shift. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and training of team members; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; coaching Team Members; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• One year certificate from college or technical school; and two plus years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software; Inventory software; Manufacturing software; Project Management software; Spreadsheet software and Oracle ERP.
• Valid drivers license required.

To apply, please email your resume to

Mo********@ug*****.com

The Plant Controller directs financial activities of the plant and manages dissemination of financial information about the company activities that will assist management.  Applies principles of cost accounting to conduct studies which provide detailed cost information not supplied by general accounting systems.  Assists other departments in maintaining accurate inventory records.  This position will be located at our new plant in Monroe, Ohio.

 

Responsibilities:

Maintain manufacturing database, including, but not limited to:

Add new products as required;

Establish standards for raw materials and trade items, if applicable;

Establish standards for purchased finished goods;

Establish standard costs and routing for all products;

Establish departmental labor and overhead rates.

• Coordinate the measuring and reporting of cost reduction activities for the plant.
• Chair biweekly cost reduction meetings.
• Communicate financial results with plant management and employees.
• Prepare projected monthly sales forecast and profit and loss reports.
• Produce journal entries needed for month end close.
• Resolve financial transaction and report discrepancies.
• Produce various weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reports.
• Produce and/or review daily efficiency and material usage reports.
• Coordinate and oversee semi-annual physical inventories.
• Prepare monthly journal vouchers for accrual and expense accounts.
• Prepare annual budget and participate in annual audit.
• Participates in monthly corporate accounting meetings.
• May supervise subordinate positions in the Accounting Department such as a Cost Accountant, or Junior Accountant.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in accounting or finance. CPA or MBA is a plus.
• Ten plus years of related experience and/or training;
• Previous Plant Controller experience within the automotive industry or the manufacturing industry desired.
• Ability to establish and implement new policies and procedures for a new manufacturing facility.  Prefer previous new facility launch experience.
• Effective communicator with all levels.
• Knowledge of capital management preferred.
• Knowledge of Accounting software; Database software; Manufacturing software; Payroll systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications--Word, Excel, Power Point, and Microsoft Outlook, and Manufacturing ERP system (Oracle).

 

To apply, please email your resume to Lisa Jurack at

li*********@ug*****.com

We have an opportunity for a MRO Buyer to join our team in our new Monroe, Ohio facility.  The MRO Buyer compiles and maintains records of quantity, type and value of material, equipment, merchandise and supplies stocked in the facility.  Optimizes the use of company assets in the acquisition of assigned goods and services; locates sources of supply for MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Operating expense) materials and contracted services. Responsible for timely receiving goods and services; packing list and purchase order verification and proper Team Member notification and/or delivery of ordered supplies.

Responsibilities:

• Create purchase orders within the Oracle ERP system; create and maintain files for open/closed purchase orders. Monitor and maintain open purchase orders/invoices with accounting for partial payment.
• Plan and carry out activities within the jurisdiction of the position to ensure prompt creation and placing of orders, in proper quantities, through appropriate transportation carriers to ensure on time deliveries when and where needed.
• Create requisitions using the Proteus system; develop e-requisitions for routine outside services.
• Organize packing slips; verify information that will be matched with purchase orders; receive into Oracle ERP system.
• Collate, copy and submit all pertinent information of closed purchase orders to accounting for payment.
• Research MRO products for cost reduction; meet with vendors to survey new products and prices; collect and submit new vendor information to accounting for approval. Develop and/or assist with identifying potential sources for MRO products.
• Keep informed on cost of NPP (Non-Production Part) items, pricing trends, inventories and other matters in order to obtain best cost possible on NPP items. Consult with all departments on matters relative to buying and developing specifications for NPP items.
• Cooperate with all UGN departments to establish methods and procedures to minimize supply inventories and control obsolescence or excess inventories. Arrange for disposition of excess or obsolete supplies to minimize losses when required.
• Act as liaison between vendors and UGN departments when necessary.
• Report on the status of pending critical purchases to assure management's awareness of any delay in shipment that might affect production or planning.
• Perform cycle counting duties as per procedures, making necessary adjustments and investigating variances greater than target levels.
• Participate on the plant's Cost Reduction Committee.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and a minimum of two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Knowledge of Database software; Internet software; Inventory software; Order processing systems and Word Processing software (Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and Oracle ERP).

To apply, please email your resume to Lisa Jurack at

li*********@ug*****.com

UGN, a world class manufacturer of acoustic, interior trim, and thermal management products for the Japanese transplant automotive industry in North America, is seeking a Plant Manager to join our team in Monroe, Ohio.