Production Manager

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage manufacturing operations for the assigned shift and achieve plant goals for safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Maintain a presence on the plant floor at least 60% of the assigned shift time.
• Enforce plant safety rules and policies.
• Ensure plant quality requirements are understood and met by all assigned employees.
• Work closely with Customer Service, Planning, Quality, and Shipping departments to ensure product needed for customer orders is produced on a timely basis and meets quality specifications.
• Effectively manage shop floor manufacturing operations, including:
  • Timely shift startups and shutdowns
  • Adherence to production schedules
  • Accurate and timely reporting of production and labor
  • Training, development, and motivation of shop floor personnel
  • Adherence to plant labor contract requirements
  • Lead production meetings (salaried, hourly)
  • Meet assigned financial goals and budgets
  • Assist/own new capital implementation within department (capex – installation of new equipment)
  • Implement lean manufacturing techniques, including but not limited to: safety and housekeeping (5S), continuous improvement (process improvements), improvements/upgrades to injection molding lines, quick changeovers, lead new technologies within the department
• Supervise 3 shift supervisors and 8 to 10 team leads with 80 to 100 production employees.
• Participate in cross‑functional team meetings to solve problems.
• Support local end users for knowledge gaps and overall digital process strength.
• Perform and support testing for new projects, change requests, upgrades, etc.
• Create incident tickets as needed for any technical issues.
• Continuously update training materials, testing information, and process documentation.
• Participate with CPR for regional/global collaboration.