Production Manager

The Production Manager is responsible for leading Yak Attack's daily manufacturing activities, ensuring products are made to our quality standards, production targets are achieved, and employees are effectively managed and developed.

This is a hands-on leadership position focused on building a high-performing production team, improving efficiency, maintaining quality, and driving accountability on the production floor.

Key Responsibilities
1. Production Quality Ensure products consistently meet Yak Attack's quality standards and specifications.

Identify and correct quality issues at the source, reducing defects, scrap, and rework.

Establish and maintain consistent work procedures, quality checks, and employee accountability.

Drive continuous improvements in product quality and workmanship.
2. Production Performance Execute daily and weekly production schedules, meeting output and delivery targets.

Monitor production efficiency, labor productivity, and output against expectations.

Identify and eliminate bottlenecks, downtime, and unnecessary labor costs.

Improve production processes, workflow, and consistency through standard work and continuous improvement.

Maintain accurate production reporting and communicate performance and issues to leadership.
3. People Management & Leadership Directly manage, coach, and develop production employees and team leads.

Establish clear performance expectations and hold employees accountable for results.

Manage daily staffing, work assignments, attendance, and employee performance.

Build a positive, productive culture centered on teamwork, quality, safety, and continuous improvement.

Provide hands-on leadership, training, and problem-solving support on the production floor.

Experience supervising or managing production teams in a manufacturing environment.

Demonstrated ability to improve production quality, productivity, and employee performance.

Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and problem-solving skills.

Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, quality control, and continuous improvement.

Willingness to be actively involved on the production floor and lead by example.

Key Performance Measures Success in this position will be measured by:

Quality:
Scrap, rework, and defect rates.

Productivity:
Units produced versus plan and labor efficiency.

Delivery:
On-time completion of production schedules.

People:
Attendance, employee performance, training, and retention.

Improvement:
Measurable gains in quality, efficiency, and production consistency.