Grace Technologies | Making maintenance smarter, safer, and more productive

Who You Are

• Proven leader. You are comfortable and experienced leading teams to establish and achieve challenging goals, while providing needed feedback, coaching, and training.
• Positive and enthusiastic team player. You are hardworking, persistent, and dependable; brimming with ideas and hustle.
• Hands-on. You are not afraid to “get your hands dirty” and are willing to step in and help in any way needed.
• Self-starter. You take initiative to complete tasks and look for new opportunities and challenges.
• Aggressively customer-centric. You are passionate about finding outstanding solutions and driven by delighting and surprising customers. You are committed to exceed both internal and external customer expectations.
• Analytically minded. You can dissect complex data to make informed recommendations to company leaders.
• Process driven. You have superior organizational skills, and constantly look to make things more efficient.
• Naturally curious. You love learning how things work and you’re always looking for ways to innovate. You enjoy testing different ideas and tracking the results.

What You’ll Do

Provide leadership and direction for the Production and Shipping Department, including developing metrics and reporting progress to company leadership.

This position must work in conjunction with the Production department hours of 7:00 am to 3:30 pm Monday – Friday.

Production Management

• Recruits, trains, and mentors production team members to produce quality Grace Products.
• Monitors and assesses team member performance.
• Establishes and maintains Production metrics to align with organizational goals.
• Ensures that Production team meets or exceeds targeted metrics for area; resolves issues when needed.
• Ensures that products are shipped on time in alignment with customer expectations.
• Implements and fine-tunes ERP system configurations for Production department to ensure that team is effectively using system.
• Collaborates with Engineering to ensure that operations are aligned with ISO 9001:2015 standards, including job documentation and quality.
• Resolves customer order issues related to Production in collaboration with Customer Service staff.

Inventory

• Oversees warehouse organization, including configuring locations for parts picking procedures.
• Collaborates with Accounting and/or Procurement to resolve inventory exceptions and discrepancies.
• Collaborates with Procurement to resolve inventory management issues, including stocked and non-stocked items.
• Leads team to ensure that inventory is accurate, including conducting ongoing physical inventory.

Safety and Facility Management

• Ensures that Production and Warehouse operations comply with safety regulations and company policies. Identifies and addresses safety risks.
• Leads and tracks safety training.
• Leads facilities services area to ensure that facility is aligned with Management expectations.

Process Improvement

• Establishes and executes process improvement solutions to Production area.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, preferrable in Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• At least 1 year of experience with ISO 9001:2015 or similar quality management process.
• At least 2 years of managing people with the ability to coach and manage a team.
• Experience working with production orders in an ERP system like NetSuite, SAP, etc.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritize.
• Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
• Flexible and adaptable; responds effectively to situational changes; ability to influence others and build consensus.

Benefits & Perks

• Generous Responsible Time Off and Flexible Work Arrangements
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Profit Sharing Opportunities
• Medical/dental/vision/life/disability insurance packages to fit your needs.
• Entrepreneurial Environment. Flexibility and ability to build a world-class business.
• Unique employee-friendly culture.
• Regular company events.
• Ample supply of free snacks, drinks, fruit, and gourmet coffee.

Language Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills required. Ability to read and interpret documents such as packing slips, procedure manuals, Bill of Materials, and ISO9001:2015 work instructions.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Other Skills and Abilities

Requires the ability to operate simple tools, as well as a wide variety of standard office equipment, such as a computer and keyboard, a calculator, telephone, photocopier, etc.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear and use hands to handle, or touch objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Who We Are

Grace Technologies is the thought leader in electrical safety product solutions. The GracePort® product is the single most popular panel interface connection used in industry today, the product category of Permanent Electrical Safety Devices (PESDs) was pioneered by Grace. Moving forward, the new GraceSense™ product line is a marriage of preventative maintenance technology and personnel safety techniques. The company’s products are available around the globe via a distribution network and sales presence in 60+ countries.

Grace is consistently recognized as one of Iowa's Top Workplaces by The Des Moines Register.
https://topworkplaces.com/publication/desmoinesregister/grace-engineered-product/

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• On-the-job training
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing to undergo a background check?
• Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa status)?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• management: 2 years (Preferred)
• Quality management: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Davenport, IA 52807: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person