Production Manager

Pregis • Conover, NC

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Pregis LLC is seeking a Production Manager for its Protective Films & Coatings division at its manufacturing facility in Conover, North Carolina. The plant operates on a 24/7 schedule. The Production Manager is responsible for the plant’s safety, quality, and operational excellence, leading production operations to meet operating goals. The role leads shift supervisors, who oversee hourly employees, for a total team of approximately 60–70 personnel.

The Production Manager manages performance metrics such as uptime, throughput, quality, and safety, and identifies improvement opportunities using data-driven decisions. The position oversees production objectives including safety, productivity, quality, maintenance, training, cost control, and consistent, sustained operations. It also works across departments and with scheduling to improve productivity, labor utilization, changeovers, and on-time delivery.

Pregis describes itself as a global provider of packaging solutions committed to purpose-driven innovation, customer-centric solutions, sustainability, and social responsibility. The company states that it supports diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree from a four-year college, or 10+ years of plant leadership experience in a manufacturing business in lieu of a degree.
• Prior experience managing direct reports.
• Adequate knowledge of business and management principles, including budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and human resources.
• Familiarity with industry-standard equipment and technical expertise.
• Excellent computer skills, including MS Office, and the ability to manage and analyze large data sets and build models in MS Excel.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements for operating plants.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• An engineering degree.
• Prior experience with web-handling, adhesive coating, or solvent coating.
• Knowledge of SAP.

Responsibilities

• Ensure production goals are met and manage manufacturing operations to achieve facility performance goals.
• Execute the production strategy by translating business objectives into projects and actions; establish routines and process controls and promote standardization and simplification.
• Oversee plant safety, reporting, compliance, audits, waste management, and Environmental, Health and Safety responsibilities.
• Support development of Job Safety Assessments, promote a zero-incidents safety culture, develop a 5S culture, and ensure employees follow safety rules and understand Critical Safety Rules.
• Provide a monthly safety scorecard and conduct plant safety audits through the EASE initiative.
• Maintain a clean and organized plant and ensure compliance and accountability, including disciplinary processes.
• Minimize quality returns and customer complaints; ensure product quality through SOPs, enforce quality procedures, and develop corrective actions to prevent recurring quality issues and reduce scrap.
• Collect, maintain, and analyze KPI data, including internal quality incidents and downtime; initiate corrective actions based on the data.
• Support achievement of plant targets for safety, productivity, quality, WIP/inventory, and other developed measures.
• Implement cost-saving initiatives to increase profitability and ensure on-time, in-full product delivery.
• Provide daily KPIs to the Plant Manager through the facility scorecard report.
• Work with scheduling to increase productivity, attend daily meetings to recommend and execute productivity plans, and minimize changeovers by grouping similar products.
• Develop strategies to maximize labor utilization and monitor hours worked against hours needed.
• Manage attendance and ensure SOPs and safety rules are followed.
• Manage supervisors by providing direction, establishing goals, and holding them accountable for safety, quality, and performance.
• Drive floor accountability and discipline employees as required, up to termination; document disciplinary actions when needed.
• Work cross-functionally with other departments to support business goals.
• Develop Standard Operator Procedures and Standard Work to promote consistent workplace performance.
• Review employee performance and develop succession plans.
• Ensure new employees receive adequate training and have clearly defined job responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager