Production Manager

When Alfred Fain founded a small Rhode Island tire store in 1924, at the time no one could have predicted how Teknor Apex would become an international custom compo under sought out by companies around the world. After a nearly hundred-year journey that’s carried us through acquisitions and expansion, we now have nine U.S. locations, as well as operations in Belgium, Singapore, Germany, and China.

Throughout this global expansion Teknor has remained a privately held company, and today Fain’s grandson sits at the helm, maintaining the family’s tradition of fostering deep employee and customer relationships. These relationships are what allow us—together—to deliver customized compound solutions and help our customer’s create better products.

“Manufacturing is a team sport, and we work together to achieve our goals.” ~Jon Fain

The Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution of manufacturing operations, including staff, equipment, materials, and processes involved in production, curing, and final product output. This role ensures the effective allocation and management of resources to achieve safety, quality, and production targets.

• Promote safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends. Ensures that safety meetings are conducted, investigates and countermeasures all safety problems and reports results. Develop plans for improvements and maintain compliance with all environmental regulations.
• Ensures fair and consistent practices, recommends promotions, salary increases, demoting, and transfers.
• Manages Production Department staff. Select and develop personnel and identify training needs. Counsels and motivates the team and maintains a clean, safe, working environment.
• Reviews, analyzes, and monitors daily and monthly production results and trends according to man, machine, material methods measured against plant goals. Develop resolutions through troubleshooting which is corrective prevention.
• Direct and lead all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and employee relations. Counter measures adverse trends, obtains and deploys resources as necessary. Maintain lowest costs for production.
• Educates and trains team in standard practices, process capability, and downgrade defect analysis. Promotes a high level of good housekeeping.
• Audits SOP compliance, establishes plans, and controls points for achieving production requirements, communicates objectives to team. Interacts and coordinates activities with support department, maintenance, technical support, and customer service department. Directs resources to improve and correct deficiencies and initiate countermeasures.
• Submits monthly reports that document results vs. monthly budget expectations.
• Position has budget responsibilities of $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 and no sales revenue responsibilities.
• Work requires the application of a variety of procedures, policies, and/or precedents used in combination.
• Model positive leadership behaviors that align with our Core Values and build relationships and collaboration across the shift, other shifts and cross functionally.
• Actively audit safe conditions and safe behaviors every shift while on the floor – uphold safety rules and policies and proactively addresses safety hazards and unsafe behaviors.
• Actively model setting high Safety standards ( LOTO, proper PPE, no ear buds or phones on production floor, long sleeve shirts, dust masks, etc.)
• Coach and drive 6S principles and improvements across the department and plant
• Drive Safety, Quality, Yield and Productivity Continuous Improvement and lead…