Senior Production Manager

Mamas Creations•Town of Oyster Bay, NY

12d•$85,000 - $95,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Production Operations is the plant-wide execution leader responsible for driving consistent, disciplined production performance across all shifts, lines, and production areas. This role ensures that production standards, SOPs, and operating rhythms are executed with excellence every day. This role translates production plans into reliable execution, reinforces accountability, and ensures performance gaps are identified, understood, and addressed. This role plays a critical part in advancing Grandma Quality by ensuring work is performed with craftsmanship, consistency, and pride, while supporting benchmarking, best-practice sharing, and continuous improvement across the plant.

Requirements

Production execution across the entire facility
Production scheduling execution
Translating demand and production plans into executable schedules and staffing models
Ensuring production schedules are executed safely, efficiently, and consistently
Leading and developing Production Managers
Serving as a visible production leader across all shifts
Establishing, reinforcing, and continuously improving production standards, SOP execution, and operating rhythms
Reinforcing consistent application of standard work, daily operating best practices, and performance expectations
Managing plant-level production KPIs and dashboards
Monitoring performance trends, identifying gaps, and driving corrective actions
Analyzing production performance and driving root cause analysis
Providing accurate line capability inputs
Owning changeover execution
Collaborating to identify, test, standardize, and scale best practices
Driving and supporting continuous improvement initiatives
Leading cross-shift and cross-line alignment
Serving as the primary escalation point for execution challenges
Acting as the first escalation point for employee relations, performance, or conduct issues
Ensuring consistent application of company policies, performance standards, and disciplinary practices
Reinforcing company values
Promoting a strong, inclusive, and accountable production culture
Supporting change management efforts
Identifying leadership gaps, training needs, and succession opportunities

Responsibilities

Serve as the owner of production execution across the entire facility, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient operations across all shifts and production areas.
Own production scheduling execution, including master schedules, line sequencing, capacity alignment, and short-interval adjustments required to deliver plan attainment.
Translate demand and production plans into executable schedules and staffing models, adjusting in real time based on downtime, labor availability, material constraints, and volume changes.
Ensure production schedules are executed safely, efficiently, and consistently, with strong focus on attainment, throughput, efficiency, and labor alignment.
Lead and develop Production Managers, holding them accountable for consistent execution, frontline people leadership, and results.
Serve as a visible production leader across all shifts, reinforcing expectations for safety, quality, accountability, and respectful leadership.
Establish, reinforce, and continuously improve production standards, SOP execution, and operating rhythms across all lines and shifts.
Reinforce consistent application of standard work, daily operating best practices, and performance expectations across the plant.
Own and manage plant-level production KPIs and dashboards, ensuring performance visibility, data accuracy, and timely communication.
Partner with the Regional Manager, Production Operations to monitor performance trends, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions and sustained improvements.
Analyze production performance and drive root cause analysis for attainment misses, downtime, inefficiencies, and variability.
Partner with Planning to provide accurate line capability inputs (rates, speeds, efficiencies, constraints) to support realistic and executable production plans.
Own changeover execution, ensuring changeovers are performed efficiently, safely, and in accordance with established standards and schedules.
Collaborate with Production Managers and CI/OpEx partners to identify, test, standardize, and scale best practices across production areas.
Drive and support continuous improvement initiatives focused on throughput, labor efficiency, downtime reduction, and schedule adherence.
Lead cross-shift and cross-line alignment, ensuring consistent messaging, expectations, and execution.
Serve as the primary escalation point for cross-shift, cross-line, or complex execution challenges, ensuring rapid resolution and alignment.
Act as the first escalation point for significant employee relations, performance, or conduct issues that cannot be resolved at the Production Manager level, partnering with People Operations as appropriate.
Ensure consistent application of company policies, performance standards, and disciplinary practices across production teams.
Reinforce Mama’s values by setting clear expectations for leadership behavior and addressing misalignment promptly.
Promote a strong, inclusive, and accountable production culture where employees feel supported, heard, and held to high standards.
Support change management efforts related to new processes, equipment, schedules, products, or organizational changes within production.
Identify leadership gaps, training needs, and succession opportunities within the Production Manager group.