Production Manager

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Management Fairfield, OH, US

2 days ago Requisition

The Production Manager leads manufacturing execution and site maintenance. The role ensures safe, compliant, efficient, and on-time operations. It converts the production plan into daily priorities, builds leader capability, removes constraints, and improves equipment reliability.

• Lead operations in accordance with Tedia's safety, quality, PSM, RMP, and environmental requirements.
• Own daily manufacturing execution across shifts. Set priorities and hold teams accountable for results.
• Translate the production schedule into clear staffing, equipment, material, and maintenance plans.
• Lead four Manufacturing Team Leads and Production Coordinator. Set expectations and standard work.
• Maintain visible performance management for safety, quality, delivery, yield, and equipment reliability.
• Monitor schedule attainment and customer commitments. Escalate risks early and lead recovery plans.
• Manage staffing, overtime, training, qualification, attendance, and succession planning.
• Coach leaders through regular floor presence, shift handoffs, tier meetings, and performance reviews.
• Ensure production records, deviations, and required documentation are accurate and completed on time.
• Lead or support incident, deviation, and root-cause investigations. Ensure actions prevent recurrence.
• Identify bottlenecks and capacity gaps. Lead improvements in flow, cycle time, changeovers, and yield.
• Partner with Quality, EHS, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain to resolve operating constraints.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on capital projects. Define operating requirements, coordinate plant resources, and ensure startup readiness and effective handoff.
• Own the operating budget. Control labor, maintenance, contractor, and operating expenses.
• lead RC Maintenance personnel and work processes.
• Set preventive and corrective maintenance priorities-based criticality.
• Improve RC Maintenance PM completion, work-order quality, planning, scheduling, spare-parts readiness, and breakdown response.
• Build a reliability culture that reduces repeat failures and unplanned downtime.
• Provide off-hours support and escalation for significant production or equipment issues.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Meet site safety and quality goals and close assigned actions on time.
• Achieve at least 90% production schedule attainment with a sustained improving trend.
• Support at least 95% customer on-time delivery through effective execution and recovery planning.
• Meet approved labor and operating budgets, with variances identified and addressed.
• Complete 100% of required performance reviews, training plans, and leader development actions.
• Maintain documentation of standard work and critical operating processes.
• Achieve at least 95% on-time PM completion and reduce repeat equipment failures.
• Deliver documented capacity, cost, quality, or reliability improvements each year.

Manufacturing Team Leads (4), Production Coordinator, RC Maintenance (2), Automation & Controls Process Engineer.

• Five or more years of manufacturing experience, preferably in chemical, pharmaceutical, or process manufacturing.
• Three or more years of leadership experience with direct responsibility for people and results.
• Experience managing safety, quality, production schedules, labor, and operating metrics.
• Working knowledge of MRP or ERP systems such as SAP and Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong floor leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Chemistry, or a related field.
• Experience leading maintenance, reliability, or asset-care functions.
• Experience with PSM, ISO quality systems, lean manufacturing, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience leading organizational change and building front-line leaders.
• Accountability (Intermediate Level)
• Adaptability/ Flexibility (Intermediate Level)
• Continual / Process improvement (Advanced Level)
• Ethics and Integrity (Advanced Level)
• Creativity/ Innovation (Advanced Level)
• Problem Solving (Advanced Level)

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