
First Line Manager
2 weeks ago
**First Line Manager**
**PPG Industries**:
**AUS - Clayton Plant**:
As a First Line Manager, you will manage the daily operations of the Industrial and Packaging coatings within the manufacturing work cells at the Clayton Plant. To ensure the current production requirements and targets of the sections are met, with respect to product quality, customer service and EH&S and these are achieved at or below budgeted cost. This role reports to the Clayton Site Manufacturing Manager.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensure Plant production is conducted within Company and statutory Environment, Health and Safety regulations and other accreditations within the PPG Guidelines.
- Actively engage in EH&S programs and promote EH&S policies, procedures, and practices.
- Lead and manage manufacturing initiatives in production area in accordance with company objectives to drive and monitor production to achieve production targets, implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve operational performance
- Ensure the production outputs meet or exceed targets on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis.
- Continually improve productivity and operational efficiency by minimizing waste, overtime and aids to manufacture to reduce unit costs
- Manage metrics include: OTIF, Stock Availability, Forecast Accuracy, Inventory, and yield.
- Ensure compliance against PPG financial procedures
- Sustain and manage a strong performance culture in manufacturing with all levels of employees through communication processes, skill gap analysis and effective training solutions.
- Develop and maintain an environment that allows employees to contribute to business objectives by managing standards of behaviors and performance within the work teams.
- Any other duties required to meet the objectives of the role.
- Establish and maintain a close working relationship with Manufacturing, Engineering Department, EH&S, Supply Chain and Technical departments
- Assist internal and external customers to meet required quality and cost targets by ensuring the effective performance and quality of PPG resins
**Qualifications**
- Chemical or engineering based tertiary qualifications and at least 5 years manufacturing experience or substantial relevant manufacturing experience managing people.
- Knowledge of modern paint and resin technologies and processes
- Report writing skills
- Understanding and experience using best practice manufacturing techniques such as Lean and Sigma.
- Experience managing a Unionized workforce preferred.
**About us**:
**PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD**
**The PPG Way**
Every single day at PPG:
**We partner with customers to create mutual value.**
We are insightful, dedicated and proactive. We have intimate knowledge of the market and our customers. We focus on practical solutions that make a difference.
**We are "One PPG" to the world.**
We are better and stronger together. We leverage our scale to reach new markets and introduce innovative technologies as we differentiate and improve our markets.
**We trust our people every day, in every way.**
We enable and empower our people to make the right decisions. We are inclusive, transparent and respectful. Our feedback is clear and actionable.
**We make it happen.**
We have a passion for winning. We achieve. We deliver with discipline and integrity. We bring our best energy to our work. We decide and act intelligently and quickly.
**We run it like we own it.**
We respect one another by being responsible and accountable. We always act in the best interest of our company, customers, shareholders and our communities.
**We do better today than yesterday - everyday.**
We continuously learn. We develop our people to grow our businesses.
**PPG Way**: (Click here to learn more about the PPG Way)
Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.
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