Manufacturing Manager

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Benchmark designs and manufactures high-performance, low-maintenance, easy-to-operate product handling systems for food and bakery manufacturers, including distribution systems, automatic cartoner infeeds, shuttle and disk feeders, stackers, mergers, tray loaders, and slug loaders. Benchmark also manufactures the Southern Packaging line of intermittent motion horizontal form fill seal pouch packaging systems. Benchmark is a product brand of Pro Mach, a global leader in packaging line solutions.

As part of the Pro Mach Product Handling business line, Benchmark helps our packaging customers protect and grow the reputation and trust of their consumers. Pro Mach is a family of best-in‑class packaging solution brands serving manufacturers of all sizes and geographies in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, and household and industrial goods industries. Pro Mach brands operate across the entire packaging spectrum: filling and capping, flexibles, pharma, product handling, labeling and coding, and end of line.

Pro Mach is headquartered near Cincinnati, Ohio, with manufacturing facilities and offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information about Pro Mach, visit  and for more information on Pro Mach Careers, visit

This role is responsible for overseeing the manufacturing process from design release to shipment, including but not limited to mechanical assembly, and parts manufacturing (machining and fabrication) departments in the production of product handling machinery and related equipment.

This position is directly responsible for managing plant safety, facilities management, and manufacturing quality; as well as capacity planning, utilization, scheduling, and shop order management. The Manufacturing Manager will supervise and plan all manufacturing activities while balancing tactical and strategic business directives. They must also be ready to demonstrate their skill and experience in a manufacturing environment delivering continuous improvement and drive effective performance of employees.

The primary goal of the Manufacturing Manager is to ensure that all manufacturing processes and related activities operate at the highest levels of Safety, Quality, Delivery & Cost performance.

Reporting to the position will be the Assembly Supervisor, Production Supervisor for machining and fabrication departments, and the Quality Inspector(s).

• Lead the entire Division in proper safety practices and in consistently enforcing these practices
• Lead employees in the manufacturing organization to follow good manufacturing practice and build products which meet quality requirements of the industry and of customers.
• Understand and manage mechanical and electrical machine‑building processes, implementing consistency and repeatability
• Review engineering recommended process changes to ensure process is appropriate with operating goals
• Lead the manufacturing organization in implementing a culture of sustaining lean and continuous improvement practices.
• Lead the manufacturing organization in lowering the cost of building machinery
• Lead the manufacturing organization in lowering the lead time of building machinery
• Lead the manufacturing organization to meet deadlines for machine build.
• Manage workload and capacity through analysis and actions needed to satisfy schedule adherence
• Develop and execute work definition, work scheduling, and task assignments.
• Work collaboratively with fellow department managers to communicate and to solve joint problems in meeting deadlines.
• Employees
• Establish and lead training programs
• Provide leadership, communication and coaching to manufacturing team members
• Develop and communicate individual growth paths for manufacturing team members
• Lead…