Assistant Production Manager – Manufacturing Operations

Lead Teams. Improve Performance. Make an Impact.

At Rauch North America
, successful manufacturing takes more than meeting production targets. It takes strong leaders who develop people, solve problems, and build teams that consistently deliver results.

We're looking for an Assistant Production Manager who is passionate about developing people, driving operational performance, and creating a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement. In this role, you'll help lead our 24/7 high-speed beverage manufacturing operation, supporting production teams of approximately 30 to 100 employees across assigned areas and shifts.

Working closely with Production leadership and cross-functional partners, you'll turn business objectives into action, develop frontline leaders, improve production efficiency, and help ensure our teams deliver on safety, quality, productivity, and customer commitments.

If you're a hands-on manufacturing leader who knows how to bring out the best in people while driving measurable operational results, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

• Develop people and frontline leaders: Coach and develop Shift Leads, Senior Machine Operators, and production employees to strengthen leadership capabilities, technical skills, accountability, and team performance.
• Drive production performance: Translate production goals into daily execution, monitor key performance indicators, and implement action plans to improve efficiency, throughput, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Lead daily operations: Oversee assigned production areas and shifts, support staffing and labor planning, and ensure production schedules and customer commitments are met.
• Build a culture of safety and quality: Reinforce safe work practices, quality standards, company procedures, and employee accountability throughout production operations.
• Use data to solve problems: Analyze production losses, identify root causes, conduct Pareto analysis, and develop targeted improvement plans to reduce waste and recurring operational issues.
• Partner across departments: Work closely with Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Planning, Warehouse, Human Resources, and other teams to resolve challenges and keep production running efficiently.
• Improve equipment reliability: Partner with Maintenance to support autonomous maintenance initiatives, reduce avoidable downtime, and improve equipment performance.
• Strengthen workforce capability: Maintain employee competency matrices, support onboarding and 30-60-90-day reviews, identify training needs, and develop plans that improve employee skills and operational flexibility.
• Maintain operational discipline: Ensure accurate staffing plans, payroll information, production documentation, and administrative processes while meeting customer and compliance requirements.
• Lead continuous improvement: Support Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, and other improvement initiatives while developing standard work and process controls that sustain operational gains.

At Rauch North America, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead at scale: Influence the performance and development of production teams ranging from approximately 30 to 100 employees.
• Develop future leaders: Build the skills, confidence, and capabilities of frontline leaders while strengthening the organization's leadership pipeline.
• Drive measurable results: Directly influence safety, quality, productivity, waste reduction, equipment reliability, and customer service.
• Make improvements that last: Identify operational challenges, implement practical solutions, and help establish processes that sustain better performance.
• Collaborate across the business: Work with multiple departments to solve complex…