Production Manager - Furniture Manufacturing

Job Description

Position Summary

The Production Manager is responsible for overseeing all aspects of daily manufacturing operations to ensure furniture products are produced safely, efficiently, on schedule, and to established quality standards. This position leads production employees and supervisors, coordinates labor and material requirements, monitors workflow, and works closely with management to meet production and customer delivery goals.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on manufacturing leader with strong organizational, problem-solving, and people-management skills and experience managing production in a furniture, upholstery, millwork, or related manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

· Plan, organize, and manage daily production activities to meet production schedules and customer delivery requirements.

· Lead, coach, and develop production supervisors, cutters, seamstress, assemblers, finishers, upholsterers, and other manufacturing personnel as applicable.

· Establish daily and weekly production priorities based on customer orders, available capacity, materials, labor, and equipment.

· Monitor production output and proactively address bottlenecks, shortages, downtime, quality issues, and scheduling conflicts.

· Ensure products are manufactured according to drawings, specifications, bills of materials, work instructions, and established quality standards.

· Coordinate production activities across departments such as cutting, machining/CNC, assembly, sanding, finishing, upholstery, packaging, and shipping.

· Monitor labor utilization, overtime, productivity, scrap, rework, and overall manufacturing efficiency.

· Develop and track key production metrics, including output, labor efficiency, schedule attainment, quality, scrap/rework, and on-time completion.

· Identify opportunities to improve workflow, plant layout, manufacturing methods, labor utilization, and production capacity.

· Implement and support Lean manufacturing, 5S, continuous improvement, and waste-reduction initiatives.

· Work with Purchasing and Inventory teams to ensure raw materials, hardware, components, lumber, panels, fabric, foam, finishes, and other required materials are available when needed.

· Partner with Product Development to resolve manufacturing issues and improve product manufacturability.

· Coordinate with Maintenance to minimize equipment downtime and ensure preventative maintenance activities support production requirements.

· Maintain appropriate staffing levels and participate in hiring, training, performance management, and employee development.

· Ensure employees are properly trained on equipment, processes, quality requirements, and safe work practices.

· Promote a strong culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, quality, and continuous improvement.

· Ensure compliance with company safety policies and applicable OSHA requirements.

· Investigate production and quality problems, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions.

· Maintain accurate production records and provide regular performance updates to senior management.

· Support inventory accuracy and proper material handling throughout the manufacturing process.

· Ensure finished products are properly inspected, packaged, and transferred to shipping according to schedule.

· Perform other duties necessary to support manufacturing operations and company objectives.

Performance Expectations

The Production Manager will be accountable for achieving measurable improvements in:

· On-time production completion

· Production schedule attainment

· Labor productivity and efficiency

· Product quality and first-pass yield

· Reduction of scrap and rework

· Equipment utilization and downtime

· Overtime management

· Workplace safety

· Employee…