Production Manager

Cornerstone Building Brands • Streetsboro, OH

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and resource stewardship for manufacturing department in a high-volume manufacturing site located in Streetsboro, OH. This role is accountable for driving timely and impactful improvements to the operating environment and for delivering performance at or above expectations for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement. This position will lead the execution of cross-functional strategies and plans that ensure we execute the company’s manufacturing excellence roadmap. The goals of this role are to manage structured change and combine long-term thinking with near term actions and decisions. Successful candidates demonstrate their commitment to their team by taking direct responsibility for the safety of the people who work in your business, build trust and value the experience of the team around them and look to develop the people, sets high expectations for self and others, is a change agent and an effective communicator, and shows personal resilience. This position reports to the Plant Manager and will have supervisors as direct reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is highly desired, preferably in engineering or business.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 7 years of significant, relevant professional experience with an additional 4 years in a leadership capacity.
• With a Bachelor’s degree, a minimum of 5 years previous experience in manufacturing, including packaging, process engineering, warehousing, and assembly and a minimum of 4 years in people management role is required.
• Proven track record of application of lean tools, processes, and systems to deliver sustained continuous improvement.
• Experienced leading teams through compliant execution of formally defined management systems.
• Experience participating in cross-functional teams.
• Possesses strong knowledge of manufacturing supply chain functions, including planning, quality, and inventory control.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office products.
• Excellent leadership skills with an understanding of how best to utilize and deploy talent.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and execute an operations strategy.
• Demonstrated influencing, relationship building, and effective facilitation and change management skills.
• Strong business acumen, commercial awareness, and strategic thinking skills.
• Must model the Company’s core values and leadership behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Safety Focused Ensure a safe work environment.
• Promptly address safety issues and ensure OSHA standard and applicable compliance.
• Monitor associate activities to ensure adherence to safety policies, safety initiatives and timely completion of required safety training.
• Identify and investigate incidents.
• Maintains and promotes an organized work environment to ensure a safe, efficient operation.
• May serve as a facilitator or co-leader on a designated Safety Team/Committee Communicates EHS goals and expectations, standards, and issues/concerns throughout the manufacturing department.
• Will collaborate with other leaders on the same.
• As applicable, oversee management of hazardous waste programs in collaboration with Safety Team as well as taking preventive measures and waste minimalization where applicable.
• Quality Focused Ensure quality to standard.
• Establishes, maintains, and facilitates product quality specifications.
• Responsible for quality of all products and materials from designated areas of responsibility.
• Meeting all production specifications, implementation and sustainability of QC programs and providing relevant information to inform vendors and suppliers as it relates to them meeting our specifications of incoming raw materials.
• Proactively review practices for correct, quality workmanship and process flow, along with timeliness.
• Address and participate in the effective resolution of customer complaints.
• Data Analysis and Problem Solving/Delivery Ability to define problems, collect & synthesize data from various sources, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Use daily management metrics and control charts to conduct fact-based analysis of current state and propose solutions.
• Ensure communication of results.
• Diagnose any potential areas needing improvement and identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency.
• Ensure and monitor manufacturing area is scheduling to plan.
• Use qualitative and quantitative approaches to forecasting labor demand and mix.
• Ability to manage multiple shift operation.
• Responsible for determining appropriate levels of staffing for production.
• Meet or exceed financial goals consistently by focusing on organizational and departmental goals in a way that is aligned with core values, vision, mission and behaviors & mindsets.
• Invest a substantial amount of time reinforcing our manufacturing excellence roadmap, holding themselves and others accountable for performance and leadership commitments.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives while aligning with employee engagement within the department.
• Partner with maintenance department to ensure effective equipment utilization and appropriate safety measures.
• Coordinate & collaborate with maintenance for scheduling downtime for equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Ensures complete and timely product delivery.
• Collaborates with scheduling department as it pertains to manufacturing scheduling activities and communicates schedules to direct reports accordingly.
• Prepares and distributes production reports.
• Cost Drive simplification efforts within the department, particularly removing manufacturing activities “draining” the operations cost structure.
• Assist in preparation of departmental budget in collaboration with plant manager and finance.
• Continuously look for opportunities to reduce costs of goods measured as savings year to year including direct labor and overhead.
• Develop strategies for COGS reduction while managing growth and/or expansion Engagement Proven leadership skills and the ability to effectively motivate others to perform to the best of their ability.
• Effectively communicate through verbal & written communication and interpersonal skills including public speaking skills and presence in meetings and training environments.
• Ability to create and deliver presentation content.
• Consistently ensure that area job responsibilities are promptly and efficiently carried out and nurture a high level of leadership and team performance.
• Maintain an environment that influences how employees feel physically and mentally at work and reflect attention to detail, not only in the quality of our output, but in our daily productive routines.
• Provide guidance and support to staff, line supervisors, and group leaders in the following areas: general communication, overtime administration, attendance tracking, employee relations, employee issues including creation of corrective actions, assisting with incident investigations, layoff/recall procedures, disciplinary/separation procedures, and problem solving and resolutions, ensuring consistency between lines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Full-time team members receive medical, dental and vision benefits starting day 1.
• Other benefits include PTO, paid holidays, FSA, life insurance, LTD, STD, 401k, EAP, discount programs, tuition reimbursement, training, and professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees