Production Manager

TEDIA COMPANY•Fairfield, OH

25d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Manager leads manufacturing execution and site maintenance, ensuring safe, compliant, efficient, and on-time operations. This role involves converting the production plan into daily priorities, building leader capability, removing constraints, and improving equipment reliability. The Production Manager is responsible for leading operations in accordance with Tedia's safety, quality, PSM, RMP, and environmental requirements, owning daily manufacturing execution across shifts, and setting priorities while holding teams accountable for results. This includes translating the production schedule into clear staffing, equipment, material, and maintenance plans, and managing a team of four Manufacturing Team Leads and a Production Coordinator. The role requires maintaining visible performance management for key metrics, monitoring schedule attainment and customer commitments, escalating risks, and leading recovery plans. Staffing, overtime, training, qualification, attendance, and succession planning are also key responsibilities. The Production Manager will coach leaders through regular floor presence, shift handoffs, tier meetings, and performance reviews, ensuring production records and documentation are accurate and complete. Incident and deviation investigations, bottleneck identification, and leading improvements in flow, cycle time, changeovers, and yield are critical. Collaboration with Quality, EHS, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain is essential for resolving operating constraints. The role also involves partnering with the Engineering Manager on capital projects, defining operating requirements, coordinating plant resources, and ensuring startup readiness. Budget ownership for operating expenses, including labor, maintenance, contractor, and operating costs, is required. Additionally, the Production Manager will lead RC Maintenance personnel and work processes, set maintenance priorities, improve maintenance PM completion and work-order quality, and build a reliability culture to reduce repeat failures and unplanned downtime. Off-hours support and escalation for significant production or equipment issues are expected, along with performing other related duties.

Requirements

Five or more years of manufacturing experience, preferably in chemical, pharmaceutical, or process manufacturing.
Three or more years of leadership experience with direct responsibility for people and results.
Experience managing safety, quality, production schedules, labor, and operating metrics.
Working knowledge of MRP or ERP systems such as SAP and Microsoft Office applications.
Strong floor leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Chemistry, or a related field.
Experience leading maintenance, reliability, or asset-care functions.
Experience with PSM, ISO quality systems, lean manufacturing, and root-cause analysis.
Experience leading organizational change and building front-line leaders.

Responsibilities

Lead operations in accordance with Tedia's safety, quality, PSM, RMP, and environmental requirements.
Own daily manufacturing execution across shifts.
Set priorities and hold teams accountable for results.
Translate the production schedule into clear staffing, equipment, material, and maintenance plans.
Lead four Manufacturing Team Leads and Production Coordinator.
Set expectations and standard work.
Maintain visible performance management for safety, quality, delivery, yield, and equipment reliability.
Monitor schedule attainment and customer commitments.
Escalate risks early and lead recovery plans.
Manage staffing, overtime, training, qualification, attendance, and succession planning.
Coach leaders through regular floor presence, shift handoffs, tier meetings, and performance reviews.
Ensure production records, deviations, and required documentation are accurate and completed on time.
Lead or support incident, deviation, and root-cause investigations.
Ensure actions prevent recurrence.
Identify bottlenecks and capacity gaps.
Lead improvements in flow, cycle time, changeovers, and yield.
Partner with Quality, EHS, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain to resolve operating constraints.
Partner with the Engineering Manager on capital projects.
Define operating requirements, coordinate plant resources, and ensure startup readiness and effective handoff.
Own the operating budget.
Control labor, maintenance, contractor, and operating expenses.
Lead RC Maintenance personnel and work processes.
Set preventive and corrective maintenance priorities-based criticality.
Improve RC Maintenance PM completion, work-order quality, planning, scheduling, spare-parts readiness, and breakdown response.
Build a reliability culture that reduces repeat failures and unplanned downtime.
Provide off-hours support and escalation for significant production or equipment issues.
Perform other related duties as assigned.