Production Manager

Company:
Integrity Pump & Motor (A Division of Kinetiflo Company)

Reports To:

President

FLSA Status:
Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Looking for a hands-on manufacturing leadership role where you can make an impact across production, planning, and customer delivery? Join our team in Fairview, TN as a Production Manager and play a key role in coordinating customer orders from sales order entry through production and shipment.

This position is ideal for an organized, results-driven manufacturing professional who enjoys leading people, solving problems, managing multiple priorities, and working cross-functionally to keep production moving safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

The Production Manager coordinates customer orders from sales order entry through production and shipment. This role manages production planning, project execution, and daily manufacturing priorities while coordinating closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, Shipping, and Production. The Production Manager ensures orders are entered accurately, work is properly planned and released, schedules are maintained, materials are available, and production is completed safely, efficiently, and on time.

• Receive approved purchase orders and sales documentation, verify order details, and accurately enter customer sales orders into the ERP system.
• Review purchase orders to confirm pricing, specifications, delivery requirements, shipping terms, and supporting documentation are complete and consistent with the applicable quotation.
• Review inventory, material availability, workload, facility capabilities, lead times, and sales priorities to develop and maintain production schedules.
• Convert sales orders into accurate shop orders, including bills of material, drawings, work instructions, quality documentation, and required non-stock materials before release to production.

• Manage customer orders from receipt through shipment.
• Track project milestones, production schedules, and customer due dates.
• Identify potential risks, material shortages, bottlenecks, or delays and coordinate corrective actions.
• Establish production priorities and monitor work in process.
• Adjust schedules as production conditions and customer priorities change.
• Expedite critical materials or manufacturing operations when necessary to maintain committed delivery dates.
• Supervise and lead production, maintenance, and warehouse personnel with a focus on safety, accountability, teamwork, quality, and performance.
• Direct and coordinate daily production activities, including machining, assembly, testing, and material movement.
• Ensure production activities support established safety, quality, productivity, and delivery objectives.
• Provide clear direction to employees and help resolve production, scheduling, staffing, and workflow issues.
• Promote a culture of accountability, communication, continuous improvement, and teamwork.

• Work with Purchasing and inventory personnel to identify material shortages and required non-stock materials or components.
• Ensure materials and components are available when required by the production schedule.
• Communicate and help resolve material constraints that may affect production or customer delivery commitments.

• Coordinate inspections, testing, documentation, and shipment readiness.
• Ensure completed equipment meets applicable customer requirements before shipment.
• Work with Quality, Production, Warehouse, and Shipping to resolve issues that could affect completion or delivery.
• Ensure customer orders are completed accurately and prepared for shipment according to committed delivery dates.

• Coordinate with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse, Shipping, and Production throughout the order-to-shipment process.
• Ensure customer requirements, technical information, production priorities, and internal expectations are clearly communicated.
• Work across departments to resolve order, engineering, material, quality, and scheduling issues.
• Maintain accurate production, order, scheduling, and project information within the ERP system.
• Monitor production performance and order progress.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow, production planning, communication, efficiency, and on-time delivery.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives…