Production Manager

Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility

Picture this:
You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You are part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At Tekni Plex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, Tekni Plex Healthcare and Tekni Plex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at Tekni Plex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

Tekni Plex is hiring a Production Manager for our facility located in Madison, WI. This position is responsible for leading safe, efficient, and consistent manufacturing operations within the plant. This role directly supervises the 1st shift production team while providing leadership, direction, and accountability to off-shift supervisors to ensure alignment across all shifts. Ongoing focus areas will include:
Continuous improvement, project management and Lean Management Operating System (MOS) - implementation and sustainment.

A successful candidate will understand and practice Servant Leadership to lead a production team through the manufacturing of materials from raw product to finished product. It also requires an enhanced ability to analyze data for equivalency, trends, and meet specifications while adhering to quality procedures and systems. The salary range for this role is $93,000 to $128,000 annually. Pay is based on experience.

Includes but is not limited to the following.

• Plans, schedules and coordinates work, trains, motivates, monitors and evaluates performance of employees; ensures their ability to SAFELY operate equipment to produce product; counsels, records, and disciplines as necessary.
• Responsible for all processes, equipment, employees’ safety, and housekeeping of the entire operations area and meeting productions quality and quantity standards on the shift.
• Support the plant to manufacture and deliver quality products to meet customer expectations.
• Identify, coordinate, and execute Continuous Improvement projects with support and in coordination with supply chain, product management, customer support teams, engineering, and technical operations.
• Collaborate with members of the supply chain; operations, product management and customer support teams, to engage and work effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Facilitate training and development in lean techniques.
• Develop and implement uniform standards and reporting processes for all continuous improvement activities through the management operating system.
• Active member of Plant Safety Team
• Initiate actions to prevent any non-conformances related to product, process and systems.
• Work with operational leadership to ensure appropriate plant KPIs are established.
• Investigate and understand MUV (Material Usage Variance) for the plant.
• Work directly with machine operators to identify needs and develop solutions; work with Maintenance on equipment modifications and preventative /predictive maintenance to ensure reliability.
• Identify, propose and execute projects to improve customer satisfaction, through performance and product reliability. Develops / improves product reliability, performance consistency and cost effectiveness.
• Provide manufacturing waste, Overall Equipment Effectiveness and other key operational reports to the site leadership team.
• Develop…