Production Manager

Overview

The Production Manager is responsible for the overall coordination and performance of production operations across all three shifts. This role ensures safe, efficient, and quality-compliant manufacturing while meeting established production targets and cost objectives. The Production Manager leads and develops a team of shift supervisors and drives a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and food safety throughout the production floor.

Essential Functions:

• Directs and supervises production supervisors on all shifts, ensuring consistent execution of safety, quality, and production standards across a 24-hour operation. Responsible for meeting established objectives pertaining to production department and controls and minimizes the shift’s overtime labor costs.
• Collaborates with HRBP to support hiring, onboarding, training, and workforce scheduling
• Coordinates with other department managers to ensure proper purchasing, processing, packaging, accounting and inventory control activities and procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring scheduling of production on the floor.
• Use modern management techniques to promote team building and to allow decision making at the lowest level.
• Ensures required production reporting is accurate and timely.
• Leads continuous improvement efforts across the production floor, leveraging Operational Excellence tools and team input to eliminate waste and drive performance
• Accountable for end-to-end production performance in assigned areas, including operational efficiency, product quality, and adherence to standards.
• Coordinates with Maintenance to support equipment reliability and preventive maintenance priorities that minimize unplanned downtime
• Maintains close working relationship with all departments and responds to deviations from standards immediately.
• Provides training, direction, development, evaluation, coaching and leadership to subordinates.
• Develops internal talent by modeling our growth behaviors and creating opportunities for team members to advance within the organization
• Maintains good employee, corporate and community relations.
• Ensures compliance to quality, food safety, 5S, OSHA and HACCP support programs; assures conformity to all company, customer and government standards.
• Strive to be a safety solutions leader by maintaining the 200% for safety mindset. Participate engagement activities, complete required safety training and aid in identifying hazards within the facility utilizing BBS and other safety programs.
• Ensures a disciplined and safe work environment.
• Reviews budgets for production departments.
• Performs other duties / responsibilities as required by Management.

Supervisory Responsibility:

Directly supervises 6 production supervisors across all three shifts in a 24-hour manufacturing operation, with indirect oversight of approximately 18-25 hourly employees per supervisor in the processing and packaging areas. Supervisory responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training, scheduling, appraising, and terminating employees with HRBP approval; planning, assigning, and directing work; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems

• 5-7 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment; food industry preferred.
• Working knowledge of scheduling, budgets, and production processes.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in a related field preferred; high school diploma, GED, or equivalent required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite required, including but not limited to Excel, Word, Outlook, and Power BI.
• Experience with Prism and UKG preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with team members, management, customers, and vendors.
• Strong people management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Hunger

Drives OEE and production targets; holds supervisors and team accountable to results every shift.

Respect

Builds an inclusive shift culture where every team member feels valued and heard.

Courage

Addresses performance issues directly, makes difficult decisions promptly, and champions safety even when it…