Purpose of Role

Condair is seeking an Area Manager who can join our team and help shape the future of our organization. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills and love working in a fast-paced environment. We are seeking someone who can learn our products and be able to lead a team.

You will be responsible for managing assigned production floor areas to ensure proper quantities of quality products, at or below budgeted production costs, are manufactured in order to meet marketplace demand. The Area Manager will be required to manage/coordinate broad processes across different departments and functional teams. This role will maintain the company culture, values and strategies by leading her/his team in change efforts, continuous improvement initiatives, safety awareness, and fostering team and individual development. This position reports directly to the Plant Manager.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to a competent level. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  

• Responsible for maintaining a safe and secure work environment. This includes educating employees on hazard identification, correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating safety meetings, performing safety inspections, investigating incidents, and driving corrective actions to completion.
• Manages all aspects of personnel performance within the department.
• Ensures that job expectations, duties, responsibilities, authority, and accountability of all direct subordinates are defined and understood.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with policies and applicable laws including staffing, training, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints, investigating issues, and resolving problems.
• Creates and implements plans to address skills gaps and provide training and development for direct reports to address department, individual, and business needs.
• Handles sensitive and proprietary information in a confidential manner.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, accomplishing work results, and reporting results on shift production summaries.
• Responsible for managing quality production and charged with collaborating with others to drive product related quality issues to resolution.
• Encourages and promotes a plant culture of Continuous Improvement and Employee Involvement.
• Fosters a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Leads continuous improvement activities, including 5S, visual workplace, cost and waste reductions.
• Enforces company systems, standards, policies, and procedures.