Production Manager Jobs

Job Overview

The role exists to drive continuous improvements in our production facilities in the areas of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost. Under the direction of the Plant Manager, the Production Manager drives performance by maintaining and monitoring Key Performance Indicators and develops appropriate responses to drive change. A key resource of the Plant Manager, the Production Manager is involved in a wide variety of plant activities including daily production employee supervision and development, SIOP planning, and lean methodology deployment.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure effective allocation of resources across all areas of the operation to accomplish company driven priorities.
• Ensure key manufacturing metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracking the appropriate measures and driving appropriate response behaviors.
• Periodically develops and presents performance results and actions, as well as strategy deployment and KPI progress.
• Other duties, as assigned.
• Continually benchmark best practices and implement as appropriate.
• Play an active and significant role in the S&OP process.
• Develop operational review cadences, including KPI reviews for the manufacturing team ensuring attainment of results and a sense of urgency with respect to the strategic priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement culture to achieve performance in SQDC
• Partner with Management to ensure the best possible product and customer satisfaction.

Education – Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Engineering or Business).
• Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
• Strong decision-making skills and results driven approach.
• Ability to effectively deploy resources to key priorities.
• Lean Principles, Problem solving, flow, standard work, Kanban, SMED, 5S
• Management experience including hiring, employee relations, performance management.
• Sets high expectations (driven by metrics and countermeasures) for self and the organization.
• 3- 5 years production management experience in a manufacturing environment.

Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook