Manufacturing Shop Floor Manager_AJD509

Marmon Holdings, Inc.•Wixom, MI

About The Position

The Manufacturing Shop Floor Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and consistent execution of daily production activities. This position provides hands-on leadership to shop-floor employees while ensuring production schedules, quality requirements, safety standards, and operational expectations are achieved. The manager serves as the primary connection between production employees and Operations leadership, owning daily execution, removing barriers, developing employees, maintaining accountability, and driving continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing operation. The successful manager actively manages the operation, identifies risks early, coordinates solutions, develops the workforce, and continuously improves how work moves through the shop. Performance is evaluated using operational measures including employee engagement, safety, schedule attainment, on-time completion, first-pass quality, rework and nonconformance reduction, labor efficiency, overtime control, attendance, Lean/5S performance, cross-training, employee development, and continuous improvement activity. Following receipt of a conditional offer, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of manufacturing or industrial production experience.
Minimum 5 years of experience leading employees, teams, or production activities.
Strong understanding of shop-floor operations and manufacturing processes.
Ability to read and understand production drawings, work instructions, and specifications.
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to hold employees accountable while maintaining positive working relationships.
Basic computer proficiency with manufacturing and business systems.

Nice To Haves

Lean manufacturing or continuous improvement experience.
Experience with 5S, standard work, visual management, and root-cause problem solving.
Experience in engineered-to-order, fabrication, welding, assembly, or similar manufacturing environments.
OSHA or manufacturing safety training.
Previous responsibility for production scheduling, labor planning, or performance metrics.

Responsibilities

Lead by example and maintain a strong safety-first culture; ensure employees follow safety procedures, PPE requirements, and safe work practices.
Address unsafe conditions and behaviors, participate in safety observations and incident reviews, support corrective actions, and conduct daily floor walks.
Manage daily production activities to meet schedules and customer commitments.
Assign employees according to workload, skills, priorities, and production requirements, and monitor progress throughout the shift.
Respond to schedule disruptions and escalate material, engineering, quality, equipment, or staffing issues that threaten production commitments.
Coordinate production priorities with supporting departments and ensure employees understand daily priorities, expectations, and completion targets.
Ensure work follows released drawings, specifications, work instructions, and approved processes.
Address quality issues at the point of occurrence and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring problems.
Maintain employee accountability for workmanship and quality standards.
Provide direction, expectations, coaching, and feedback to production employees; develop employees through cross-training, mentoring, and skills development.
Identify and develop future team leads and leadership candidates.
Address attendance, performance, behavioral, and policy issues consistently; recognize strong performance and address performance gaps promptly.
Conduct effective shift-start or daily production meetings and promote teamwork and professional communication.
Champion 5S, workplace organization, standard work, visual management, Lean initiatives, and structured problem solving.
Identify opportunities to reduce waste, waiting, unnecessary movement, rework, and production delays; encourage employees to implement practical improvements.
Maintain established improvements and accurate production reporting and documentation.
Monitor labor utilization and overtime requirements, ensure employees are working on the correct jobs and priorities, and maintain clean, organized, production-ready work areas.
Reinforce company policies and shop-floor expectations consistently and conduct effective shift handoffs when applicable.
Coordinate with Production Planning, Engineering, Quality, Materials/Purchasing, Maintenance, Shipping and Receiving, and Operations Leadership.
Proactively communicate issues affecting safety, quality, delivery, cost, or workforce availability.