Production Manager
SCHUTZ CONTAINER SYSTEMS INC GROUP•Kenosha, WI
•$90,000 - $10,000•Onsite
About The Position
The production manager manages 3 direct reports and 150 to 180 employees. This role is responsible for ensuring all production orders are met on time, promoting and enforcing plant safety, ensuring company policies are followed, maintaining product quality, housekeeping, machine utilization, and effective cost control. The position requires excellent communication, training, and team-building skills, as well as the ability to introduce change through continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 to 10 years production management experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer skills to include: MS, SAP and Excel
- Self-starter and can get things done
- Highly professional with Strong Ethical Values
- Self-Managing and Responsible, with a sense of urgency
- Efficient, organized and strong follow-up
- Attention to detail and analytical skills
- Ability to multi-task efficiently and be flexible
- Strong interpersonal skills / personable
- Strong team player and individual contributor
- Ability to communicate accurate information with the production team
- Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things
- Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials
- Ability to traverse and withstand working in a non-climate controlled manufacturing environment daily
Responsibilities
- Ensure all production orders are met on time
- Promote and enforce plant safety
- Ensure company policies are being followed
- Maintain quality of product
- Oversee housekeeping
- Maximize machine utilization
- Conduct training
- Manage assembly line operations
- Oversee material handling
- Improve productivity
- Achieve schedule attainment
- Optimize machine and labor utilization
- Control scrap
- Perform planning duties
- Manage time keeping
- Conduct employee counseling & reviews
- Participate in interviewing & hiring employees
- Manage equipment & machines
- Foster a team environment
- Control costs
- Introduce change through continuous improvement
- Ensure all production schedules are met
- Continuous monitoring and focus on production floor
- Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals
- Read and analyze charts, product quality specifications, production schedules, and other records to determine production requirements and evaluate current production estimates and outputs
- Confer with other department managers to coordinate operations and activities between departments
- Participate and conduct production meetings
- Identify and coordinate training programs
- Confer with management and HR department to resolve worker problems, complaints or grievances
- Interpret quality specifications, company policies and work procedures for employees
- Demonstrate equipment operations, work and safety procedures to new employees, or assign employees to experienced workers for training
- Ensure accuracy of production counts, reports and employee records
- Responsible for the effective control and management of scrap
- Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions
- Maintain a safe clean working environment at all times
- Ensure all employees receive proper training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
