3rd Shift Manager

EK Machine•Fall River, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of the Director of Production, the Production Manager ensures the production of company products at the highest quality and lowest cost possible, while meeting company performance standards, customer specifications, and delivery requirements. This role involves fostering a culture of collaboration, lean thinking, and continuous improvement, while directly supervising plant staff to achieve production objectives. The manager is responsible for developing and managing plant KPIs, ensuring employee training, and participating in planning meetings for space, personnel, and equipment needs. They also oversee adherence to ISO9001 procedures, manage material shortages with purchasing, and develop preventative maintenance plans to minimize downtime. Continuous evaluation of processes and methods is key to proactively identifying and resolving production bottlenecks, acting as a technical resource for problem-solving. The role also includes maintaining departmental supplies and ensuring all required production paperwork and records are completed accurately. Compliance with departmental housekeeping standards and all safety regulations is mandatory.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree and one to two years related experience; or two years of college and three to five years of progressively responsible related experience; or four years of high school and seven to ten years of progressively responsible related experience; or a combination of education and experience.
Experience using computer applications, including Microsoft Office and Manufacturing Software.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, production schedules, purchase orders, maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write reports, procedure manuals, and correspondence.
Ability to communicate effectively with customers, vendors and other employees of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of specification and information furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Responsibilities

Communicates and enforces safety policies.
Fosters a culture of collaboration, lean thinking, and continuous improvement.
Prioritizes, schedules and delegates work assignments and directly supervises the plant staff to ensure the achievement of production objectives at the lowest cost consistent with company quality requirements.
Manages and maintains adequate staffing levels to produce required product in the most cost effective manner.
Develops and manages plant KPI’s.
Ensures the training of new and present employees in the processes and methods required to achieve the company’s standards for quality, quantity, safety, and ISO 9001.
Participates in planning meetings, recommending space, personnel, and equipment requirements.
Ensures adherence to ISO9001 procedures and requirements.
Reviews part and material shortages with purchasing and works with production planning to adjust schedules as necessary.
Develops and implements preventative maintenance procedures and plans the repair of machines and equipment to minimize downtime.
Continually evaluates processes and methods, recommending measures to improve production methods, equipment, performance, utilization of people, and quality of product to proactively identify and resolve production bottlenecks.
Acts as a technical resource to address and resolve inquiries and problems; and analyzes and resolves work problems, and assists workers in solving work problems.
Maintains departmental supplies, tools, equipment, and orders as necessary.
Ensures the completion of all required production paperwork, records, documentation, such as time cards and quality records.
Ensures compliance with departmental housekeeping standards and all safety and work rules and regulations.