Production Manager Jobs

American Innovations protects people and the environment by providing proven compliance solutions to oil and gas professionals from the field to the office. More than 30 years of experience drives innovative solutions that address the need for efficient data collection, reporting, and analysis – an integrated family of hardware, software and professional services backed by relentless customer service.

About the position: This is an exciting opportunity to lead a highly dependable, experienced team of approximately 15 team members. This is a one shift manufacturing operation housed in our corporate office. The Production Manager is a high impact position that will need to build strong, collaborative relationships across the organization, primarily with Supply Chain, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Service.

Are you ready for the next chapter in your professional career? Are you looking to join a company that is the leader in our core market and is rolling out our next generation of products now? Join our Operations team and take our company to the next level!

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What you can offer us:

1. Production and Assembly Planning: Meeting monthly sales demands (30%)

• Work with SC Planning and Customer Service to fix issues with part numbers or ship dates on sales orders
• Measure and report First Pass Yield (FPY) results for product lines and communicate to engineering team as needed
• Manage order due dates with respect to daily workload; dates should be level loaded as much as possible.
• Monitor workflow through various stages of production from stock room to shipping
• Build, coach, develop and lead the Production team to meet production goals.
• Modify employee work schedules when needed to better respond to monthly sales order demands
• Monitor parts shortages where sales orders and manufacturing orders are being impacted, communicate as needed to SC Planning
• Generate and monitor build and test cycle times for all high-volume products
• Ensure all outgoing shipments are processed timely and correctly to assist with timely invoicing
• Support the Production meeting to schedule open orders with SC Planning and Purchasing; support Customer Service to respond to customers
• Review production assembly floor with Assembly Lead for status report

2. Administrative: Mentoring and training through demonstrated challenge resolution (30%)

• Conduct performance reviews and monthly/quarterly PAGE reviews with individuals to provide timely performance feedback, remove roadblocks, and support team members in their professional growth.
• Regularly review how we operate, team member performance, and other critical processes to drive continuous improvement in production.
• PTO scheduling/approval/tracking
• Timely resolution of production challenges included but not limited to: inventory, production, test, database (BAT, BAT Tools, etc.) or assembly, final inspection (QA) and station A, shipping, RMA.
• Collaboration with Customer Service on warranty, process, customer concerns, TSE, etc.
• Perform annual talent review assessments to support development and compensation decisions.
• Manage the day-to-day performance and help team members understand how to be successful
• Track expenses for production tools/supplies, shipping supplies, facilities, and team building
• Weekly Payroll, including Timecard edits
• Ensure all team member safety requirements, policies, and procedures are established and followed, accidents/near misses are reported timely, and OSHA reporting/recording requirements are followed.

3. Inventory Control: Being good stewards of company resources (15%)

• Implement improvements for inventory handling methods (storage, stage to stage movement, etc.)
• Confirm logical receipts of daily incoming materials and physical storage of those receipts
• Confirm daily cycle counts are managed in the MRP system and completed timely
• Review cycle counts from various inventory locations per defined cadence

4. RMA: Assisting customers in the routine maintenance or warranty repair (10%)

• Modify employee work schedules when needed to better respond to incoming RMA volume and monthly sales order demands
• Monitor daily and monthly throughput
• Measure and publish RMA on defined cadence
• Monitor RMA orders for OTD commitments

5. Facilities Management: Keeping our campus in good repair (10%)

• Bid out and schedule repair appointments for out of order appliances and systems
• Coordinate individuals (employees) to do minor repairs and fixes around the building as needed
• Bid out and schedule one-off projects (extra cleaning, maintenance, services)
• Review service agreement and invoices for landscaping company, janitorial company, and HVAC company
• Monitor the grounds (internally and externally) for things that need attention

6. Managing myself & my team: Relentless improvement (5%)

• Monitor daily Advance Cross shipments (ACS) and Return for Credit (RFC) RMA receipts for timeliness
• Understand my strengths & weaknesses, identify my career desires, develop a plan to get better. Improve my leadership skills, support leadership forum, be a resource to other leaders.
• Understand key needs of my team, identify holes, develop plan to fill needs, build bench strength, identify & develop high potential people, work with underperforming to improve.
• Help my team understand more about their strengths. Help them get better & find the career they want. Develop training plans, plan & process compensation, support 121, recognize success.
• Support and strengthen the culture, clearly understand & communicate purpose & culture.

What do you need to be successful?

• Maintain factory level loading as much as possible while driving to meet on time delivery to customers.
• Identify and implement continuous process improvements in manufacturing.
• Measure and report key process indictors of manufacturing.
• Ability to operate with various manufacturing models that are aligned with business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills, bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
• Ensure safety awareness and adherence to all safety policies and procedures.
• Impeccable integrity and a strong entrepreneurial mindset; motivated to develop and improve operations.
• 5-8 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Establish priorities, monitor progress revise schedules as necessary to meet required deliver dates.
• Accountable for all manufacturing activities, including assembly, inventory control, shipping and receiving.

What we can offer you:

• Programs to improve your financial well-being, including a 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% with immediate vesting and financial education courses.
• Assistance to further your learning and development.
• Competitive benefits focused on your physical well-being, including Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance and company provided Life and Disability.
• A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment.
• Supportive and collaborative environments, happy hours, and fun events.
• Opportunities to give back to the community, including paid volunteer hours.

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in the US and must be able to pass a pre-employment background and drug test.? American Innovations is an?equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for?employment?without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.