Production Manager
About The Position
This role shifts from managing activity to owning outcomes — driving throughput, developing people, and building a high-performance production system. Success means consistently hitting production targets while simultaneously also achieving safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals. Leads frontline teams and supervisors to execute production plans and continuously improve performance. Translates business objectives into disciplined execution on the shop floor. Builds leadership capability at the supervisor level and creates a pipeline of future leaders. Acts as a key member of the campus leadership team, operating with an enterprise mindset, prioritizing what is best for the campus and company over individual areas.
Requirements
- 5–10+ years manufacturing experience.
- 5+ years leading 50+ team members indirectly in a production environment.
- Knowledge of ERP systems and manufacturing processes.
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, reach.
- Ability to work extended hours sitting at a computer.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Lean or continuous improvement experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Consistently achieve or exceed weekly production targets for throughput, hours per unit, and schedule adherence delivering 95% OTD.
- Established stable, predictable production flow across all shifts.
- Maintain safety performance ≤ 2.0 TRIR, and engagement ≥ 90% SWA participation.
- Maintain Nonconformances identified ≤ 5% of fans shipped.
- Achieve RCCM and 8D closure within 30 days of issuance.
- Ensure an average of two per week standard work procedures are completed by year end.
- Create and maintain a training competency matrix for site’s production areas and team members.
- Elevated supervisor capability and accountability by ensuring DMT is upkept for all supervisors.
- Developed next-level leaders through normally occurring structured one on one coaching.
- Shifted team mindset to ownership of outcomes.
- Strengthened collaboration with cross-functional teams – i.e. warehouse, engineering, planning.
- Remove operational barriers.
- Made decisions aligned to overall company success.
- Lead daily production execution.
- Develop supervisors and teams.
- Drive accountability to safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics.
- Implement and sustain standard work.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Lead root cause problem solving.
- Partner cross-functionally.
- Utilize ERP/MRP systems for decision-making.
- Utilize Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
- Deploy DMS structure to quickly assess and stabilize production performance in new environment.
- Identify and close gaps created by changes in layout, flow, and processes.
- Reinforce standard work and establish consistency across teams and shifts.
- Support employees through the adjustment period and rebuild engagement.
- Address inefficiencies or confusion resulting from the transition.
- Partner with engineering, planning, and other functions to refine and improve the current state.
- Balance short-term stabilization with longer-term optimization of flow and performance.
- Coach and develop supervisors into leaders.
- Set expectations and enforce accountability.
- Address performance gaps directly.
- Build leadership bench strength.
- Challenge the status quo.
- Drive continuous improvement.
- Use data to support change.
- Prevent regression.
- Partner with peer Production Manager.
- Align priorities and messaging.
- Act in best interest of company.
- Model collaboration and eliminate blame.
- Promote accountability without blame and reinforce shared ownership.
- Focus on root cause problem solving.
- Model constructive behavior.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
