Production Manager

What You Will Enjoy Doing

• Ensures and reinforces the exercise of the health and safety program
• Oversees daily production
• Supports engineers to ensure machines run efficiently
• Ensures profits are maximized
• Develops production schedules
• Plans, directs, and assigns duties of manufacturing personnel
• Authorizes overtime, as necessary, to meet production goals
• Analyzes and interprets data received on a daily basis and prepares management and financial reports
• Analyses data from various systems to detect and prevent production issues
• Intervenes to the production floor when issues are detected in real-time
• Prepares production figures for daily meetings
• Troubleshares & solves production problems
• Manages production issues
• In charge of issues that are being solved and tracked
• Reports crucial process problems to the Plant Manager & Directors
• Management of the Production Department
• Organizes and conducts meetings with Supervisors on a regular basis
• Recruits (with HR) new employees
• Ensures efficient shift hand-over and feedback of past shift performance
• Prepares shift schedules
• Performs disciplinary actions
• Oversees all production training
• Provides continuous feedback culture with all production team members
• Performs annual Performance Evaluation
• Monthly meeting with OPEX team
• Knowhow level/trainings
• Overall understanding of various ALPLA IT/MES Systems
• Assesses training needs of staff and ensures execution of training (Equipment, Product, Processes, and IT/MES Systems)
• Ensures all employees follow procedures
• Revises existing and implements new procedures

What Makes You Great

• Min 2-year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent, Bachelor Degree preferred
• Technical / Engineering background
• 3 to 5 year's experience in a management position in production, preferably within plastics industry
• Thorough understanding of Health and Safety practices
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Technical understanding (Manufacturing and IT)
• Strong knowledge sharing/training skills

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job:
• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, use hands to finger, handle or feel.
• The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and talk and hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.