Production Manager

SP Industries Inc. is hiring for our team in Vineland, NJ and has an immediate opening for a Production Manager
. Reporting to the Plant Manager, this leadership role oversees manufacturing operations across multiple production areas, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production while meeting customer and business objectives. The Production Manager leads supervisors and production teams, drives continuous improvement initiatives, optimizes resources, and partners with cross-functional teams to enhance operational performance and support business growth within a specialized laboratory glassware manufacturing environment.

• Provide strategic leadership to Production Supervisors and Leads across all manufacturing operations, including Precision Bore (PB), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Lab Glass (LG), and secondary production lines.
• Drive a high-performance culture focused on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost through effective leadership of multiple production teams and organizational layers.
• Lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable Production Supervisors and Leads while building organizational capability through succession planning, performance management, and employee development.
• Translate business objectives into clear operational plans, ensuring production teams execute against safety, quality, delivery, labor, and financial targets.
• Own overall production performance across all manufacturing departments, including On-Time Delivery (OTD), productivity, throughput, yield, scrap reduction, labor efficiency, and schedule attainment.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), driving accountability through data-driven decision making and operational reviews.
• Ensure standardized work, manufacturing procedures, quality systems, and best practices are consistently executed across all production areas.
• Identify operational constraints and lead cross-functional teams to improve throughput, reduce waste, eliminate bottlenecks, and optimize manufacturing performance.
• Develop workforce plans that ensure appropriate staffing, cross-training, skills development, and operational flexibility across all production departments.
• Partner with Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Planning, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Customer Service to align manufacturing capabilities with customer requirements and business priorities.
• Lead structured problem-solving activities utilizing root cause analysis and continuous improvement methodologies to resolve production, quality, and delivery challenges.
• Champion Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives that improve safety, productivity, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Oversee compliance with all safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements while reinforcing a zero-incident culture.
• Ensure production schedules are achieved while balancing labor utilization, equipment capacity, and customer priorities.
• Support new product introductions, process improvements, capital projects, automation initiatives, and operational expansion activities.
• Serve as a key member of the plant leadership team by contributing to strategic planning, organizational development, capacity planning, and capital investment decisions.
• Drive communication and alignment across all production shifts and departments to ensure consistency in priorities, execution, and performance expectations.
• Lead customer-facing activities as required, including audits, operational reviews, corrective actions, and issue resolution.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Demonstrated success leading leaders (Supervisors and Leads) in a manufacturing environment, with strong coaching and…