Production Manager

Healthcare Linen Services Group•Wichita, KS

1d•$70,000 - $80,000

About The Position

The Production Manager is primarily responsible for ensuring that company production goals and objectives are met in a timely and accurate manner. The role focuses on maintaining production quality and controlling production and inventory costs while supporting employee safety and turnover goals. The manager works with and trains Production Supervisors, develops programs to keep costs in line, and supports company performance goals. The Production Manager provides personnel training and follow-up, coaches supervisors, coordinates with Human Resources on hiring and employee development, and assumes supervisory responsibilities when Production Supervisors are absent. The role also monitors production standards and performance, coordinates production schedules and quality matters with other departments, responds to customer concerns, and works with Maintenance on equipment repairs. The position requires computer proficiency for reports, spreadsheets, and processing ADP entries.

Requirements

High school graduate.
Six months to one year of related experience.
Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively train others.
Ability to accept responsibility and account for one's actions.
Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
Effective spoken communication skills.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing.
Ability to deal with others in antagonistic situations.
Ability to develop skills in others to a predetermined standard of work performance.
Ability to use computer programs to obtain reports and create spreadsheets.
Computer skills in Excel, Word, and Microsoft Outlook.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

Train and follow up with department personnel to ensure they perform their jobs in accordance with their job descriptions; coach Production Supervisors regularly to improve their effectiveness.
Work with Human Resources to determine hiring, training, and employee improvement needs.
Assume responsibility for Production Supervisors during their absences.
Establish and approve vacation and leave schedules for Production Supervisors.
Support supervisor goals in consultation with the VP of Operations and Director of Plant Operations.
Ensure, through Supervisors, that employees are introduced to company objectives, policies, Right-to-Know and Blood Borne Pathogens standards, and receive appropriate training as new employees.
Recommend and support employee incentive programs that enhance production and reduce productive labor percentage.
Routinely review production and goal performance records with Supervisors throughout the week.
Establish production standards where practical and measure performance against them daily.
Confer with sales, service, and office staff about production schedules, quality, and customer concerns; take corrective action as needed in response to customer surveys.
Notify and work with the Maintenance Manager on needed repairs to production and soil-sort equipment, keeping written repair requests and following up on repairs.
Ensure customer calls regarding concerns or service requests receive prompt and satisfactory responses.
Keep professionally current with the industry through periodic plant visits, industry meetings, and other relevant exposure.
Review, approve, and process all ADP entries.