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Vontier Focus Factory Manager– Aftermarket Service and Retail Distribution in Greensboro, North Carolina

The Focus Factory Manager (FFM)- Aftermarket Service and Retail Distribution is a critical leadership role within Gilbarco North America’s manufacturing facility. This role drives critical metrics around safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and inventory. A focus factory manager sets direction based on customer delivery requirements and drives his/her team to meet these requirements. They are responsible for all activities within the focus factory that affects the success of the Company and customer satisfaction.

The Focus Factory Manager (FFM)– Aftermarket Service and Retail Distribution is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end production processes within a specific segment of our factory. This role ensures efficient operations, high-quality output, and adherence to safety standards. The FFM will implement lean manufacturing principles, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and lead a cross-functional team to achieve operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure a safe working environment for all associates and drive to eliminate any environmental, health, and safety incidents.

  • Identify, implement, and track both long and short term strategies that ensure positive results in the areas of financial performance, manufacturing excellence, materials management, and inventory control.

  • Determine and monitor the overall resource capacity (personnel and equipment) for the focus factory and set priorities to maintain production expectations.

  • Implement and maintain lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste and optimize productivity.

  • Monitor performance metrics, including production rates, quality levels, and downtime, and identify areas for improvement.

  • Ensure that the quality systems for the focus factory are developed and sustained to ensuring our Customers receive the highest quality product possible.

  • Ensure that production goals are being met around KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity) all while maintaining cost competitiveness.

  • Act as a role model to Company personnel and be recognized as a leader.

  • Assess, identify, and implement technological advancements.

  • Drive continuous improvement activities utilizing lean manufacturing principles and tools.

  • Communicate with appropriate outside sources to provide resolutions to customer and company questions and concerns, production process effectiveness, and other quality related issues as they arise.

  • Other duties as assigned.

Relationships

  • This position reports directly to Head of Operations Greensboro

  • This position provides leadership to material planners, production team leaders, quality tollgate operators, engineers and assembly personnel reporting directly to it.

  • This position interacts with the plant’s Quality Manager, Materials Manager, EHS director, Finance, Human Resources, and other Focus Factory Managers on a daily basis.

  • This position will interact directly with Customer Service Representatives and Service Personnel on a daily basis.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related field.

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a manufacturing leadership role.

  • Experience working in a parts distribution "Pick/Pack/Ship" environment highly desired.

  • Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies.

  • Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams.

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

  • Commitment to safety and quality standards

Gilbarco is a supplier of fuel dispensers, point of sales systems, payment systems, forecourt merchandising and support services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Vontier and its headquarters are in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide, with sales, manufacturing, research, development, and service locations in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Gilbarco Veeder-Root represents the leading brands of solutions and technologies that provide convenience, control, and environmental integrity for retail fueling and adjacent markets. In 2002, the Gilbarco and Veeder-Root companies combined into one marketing brand, with distinctive and complementary business lines, services, and sales capabilities.

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Vontier is a $3B global industrial technology company focused on smarter transportation and mobility. Our five operating companies—Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Global Traffic Technologies, Teletrac Navman, Matco Tools, and Hennessy Industries—are united by a powerful purpose: mobilizing the future to create a better world. Our portfolio of trusted brands includes market-leading expertise in mobility technologies, retail and commercial fueling, fleet management, telematics, vehicle diagnostics and repair, and smart cities. Vontier’s pioneering solutions advance safety, security, efficiency, and environmental compliance worldwide.

WHO WE ARE

The world depends on Gilbarco Veeder-Root products to stay moving. We are the worldwide technology leader for retail and commercial fueling operations. We continue to evolve as smart cities, urbanization, electrification of vehicles, and advanced vehicle diagnostics drive the industry forward. Offering the broadest range of innovative, integrated solutions in the industry, Gilbarco Veeder-Root has delivered value, built extraordinary teams, and earned customer trust for more than 150 years. To learn more about us visit: www.gilbarco.com .

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WHO IS VONTIER

Vontier (NYSE: VNT) is a global industrial technology company uniting critical mobility and multi-energy technologies and solutions to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving, more connected mobility ecosystem. Leveraging leading market positions, decades of domain expertise and unparalleled portfolio breadth, Vontier enables the way the world moves – delivering smart, safe, and sustainable solutions to our customers and the planet. Vontier has a culture of continuous improvement built upon the foundation of the Vontier Business System and embraced by over 8,500 colleagues worldwide. Additional information about Vontier is available on the Company’s website at www.vontier.com .

"Vontier Corporation and all Vontier Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law."

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