Production Manager

Composed of Chromalox, Durex Industries, Vulcanic, and Thermocoax businesses, Electrical Thermal Solutions (ETS), part of Spirax Group, creates electrical process heating and temperature management solutions, including industrial heaters and systems, heat tracing, and a range of component technologies.

Durex Industries has over 40 years’ expertise in the thermal control business. A trusted custom thermal solutions supplier and engineering design partner for customers across a range of industry sectors, it also offers engineering, manufacturing, testing and laboratory and quality assurance services.

Durex serves businesses in sectors including process industries, life sciences, plastics processing, food and packaging, aerospace, defense, and security. Its innovative bespoke solutions – such as retrofitting heating elements to prevent outdoor beverage dispensers from failing in low temperatures and custom‑made circulation heaters to heat fuel in large ship engines.

Join us as we continue to provide solutions to our customers and the world!

The Production Manager (PM) is responsible for leading the manufacturing team and delivering customer orders safely, to specification and on time. With this understanding the PM will implement solutions to improve the production plan. To be successful in this role one should be highly results driven, have excellent communication skills and be metric driven. In addition, strong communication and stakeholder engagement are critical to success, this includes the ability to effectively partner and collaborate with those leading and working in the demand planning, finance and supply chain areas of the business.

• Ensuring all safety and environmental standards are met to keep associates’ accident‑free.
• Motivating, mentoring, supporting and providing guidance to hourly production supervision and staff.
• Communicating regularly with operations manager regarding problems or issues impacting production.
• Evaluating machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
• Establishing a balance between increased productivity and reduced costs of manufacturing operations.
• Setting productivity goals for the production team.
• Developing workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality.
• Ensuring adequate headcount to align with production capacity needs and scheduling of production staff overtime.
• Provide leadership and direction to production team to help accomplish order fulfillment objectives. Identifies areas/projects requiring attention, develops priorities, identifies work plans for staff and coordinates review of projects with production management.
• Provide manufacturing input to job estimates and approves new designs prior to release to production.
• Develop and implements key accountabilities for inventory in both the annual physical inventory and cycle count program.
• Monitor the production plan and modify as needed to maintain acceptable product availability and inventory levels. Collects, monitors and analyzes actual results against business variables of the forecasts such as sales to users, orders, shipments and factory and consigned inventory.
• Meets production planning financial objectives by helping forecast requirements; participate in preparing annual budgets; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Resolve production scheduling problems by analyzing reports; developing solutions.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing production data and trends.
• Assures compliance to ISO 9001 standards and the Durex QMS.
• Understands vendor contracts and from time‑to‑time visits outside service partners.

• Foster a safety culture with all plant associates.
• Develop, implement and foster adherence to the manufacturing process routers and labor rates.
• Deliver production output to the scheduled plan.
• Execute stocking plans using methods such as Kanban, Min/Max etc.
• Drive maximum number of inventory turns as possible and still meet customer demands.
• Coordinate with materials team the annual physical inventory.
• Meet or exceed monthly on‑time…