Circle Brands: Senior Manufacturing Manager

Kaspar Companies•Yoakum, TX

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manufacturing Manager leads safe, reliable, and cost-effective production for Circle Y, Tucker Trail, Reinsman, and Precision Saddle Tree products. This role directs manufacturing, production planning, and purchasing priorities while ensuring the people, materials, equipment, information, and capacity are aligned to meet customer commitments. The Senior Manufacturing Manager is accountable for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor performance, manufacturing cost, material availability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply chain, product management, business, or a related field preferred; advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive manufacturing or operations experience, including 5+ years leading managers and multi-department operations.
Demonstrated responsibility for manufacturing and warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, materials, or comparable end-to-end operations.
Demonstrated success improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, inventory, cost, and financial performance.
Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, ERP/MRP systems, operating budgets, capital planning, and scalable operating systems.
Hands-on manufacturing leadership and leader development
Lean daily management, continuous improvement, and root-cause problem solving
Production planning, scheduling, labor and capacity planning
Materials management, purchasing coordination, and ERP/MRP systems
Safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost, and financial performance management
Strong communication, business acumen, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting significant business growth or operational transformation preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead manufacturing operations and maintain a strong, visible leadership presence on the production floor.
Establish production plans aligned with customer requirements, capacity, material availability, and business priorities.
Develop frontline leaders and build a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, employee involvement, and continuous improvement.
Ensure approved specifications, routers, standard work, Digital Work Orders, and quality requirements are followed; improve first-pass yield, defects, rework, and scrap.
Monitor backlog, work in process, schedule attainment, lead time, on-time delivery, shortages, capacity risks, and supplier constraints.
Direct purchasing priorities and ensure materials and outside services are available to support production.
Lead daily manufacturing performance management across safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost; drive root-cause analysis and corrective action.
Manage labor, staffing, overtime, cross-training, capacity, budgets, capital priorities, equipment needs, and cost-improvement initiatives.
Provide timely production status, risks, constraints, and recovery plans to leadership.
All other duties as assigned by management.