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.
• Lead the manufacturing organization in implementing a culture of sustaining lean and continuous improvement practices.
• Lead the manufacturing organization to meet deadlines for machine build.
• Employees
• Work management
• Goals
• Run regularly scheduled meetings and provides timely updates and information to key stakeholders.
• Engage with the teams to provide hands on support for troubleshooting issues plaguing production performance and dispute resolution.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining quality standards for all products.

• 8-10 years' manufacturing/operations experience, with proven success in a related leadership position in an environment of custom capital goods
• Proven track record of managerial expertise of departments of 20+ employees, involving manufacturing-based problem solving, personnel management, and employee morale development.
• Proficient with MS Office and knowledge of MRP/ERP systems (Ultimate Software, Syteline preferred)
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written across all levels of an organization
• Results-oriented, self-motivated, with the demonstrated ability to lead, coach and inspire others to the same behaviors.
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Analytical thinker and desirous for root-cause problem solving.
• Works effectively and collaboratively and respectfully in a team environment, comfortable in cross-functional roles.
• Must be willing to work extended hours when staff is working overtime and/or some weekends.
• Reliable and able to carry out tasks autonomously and collaboratively.

There's no monopoly on innovative ideas or limits to how far you can advance with our team. We offer an open, communicative environment that fosters individual initiative. We pride ourselves in being a company where people are happy and choose to build a career.

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