Production Manager

About the role

Looking for a rewarding career with a company that values people, growth, sustainability, and teamwork? Join our Grayling team as a Production Manager! This role is located onsite at our Grayling manufacturing site. This position leads the Safety, Environmental Compliance, Quality, Production and Cost as it is related to the lamination process to achieve maximum profitability in a safe environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Operations or similar field strongly preferred
• Minimum 3 years of manufacturing experience, including direct leadership of people, 5 years preferred

Skills

• Strong Safety and Quality Leadership Skills. An individual who can effectively clarify expectations and hold personnel accountable with a positive / constructive influencing approach.
• Proven track record of driving continuous improvement; Acts on data and facts to create ideal outcomes.
• Demonstrated people management skills, including team building, empowering employees and effective mill-wide communications
• Budgeting and key metric management experience
• Experience utilizing a variety of systems (electronic) used to manage and track business results.
• Demonstrates strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills
• Strong ability to adapt and change with the market and business needs, as well as strong time management skills
• Strong knowledge of SAP or equivalent preferred
• Willing and able to obtain a forklift license
• Ability and willingness to travel to support the business as required

Responsibilities

• Monitors performance and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays
• Owns the development of lamination product recipes and customer trials, as well as lamination paper storage
• Exchange information and data with other mills in the corporation and enforce best practices to reduce and manage lamination process downtime
• Reviews TFL orders or schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations
• Manage assigned staff including hiring, development, performance evaluations, etc. to ensure proper execution of all production related activities in a safe and effective manner
• Coordinates with area owners to develop Quality Improvement Process reports (QIP’s) to ensure quality issues are not repeated
• Manage and continuously develop departmental training programs to maximize plant performance while complying with all site, corporate, local, state and federal regulations
• Provide and communicate a safe and clean work environment by conforming to required safety and housekeeping standards
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards
• Responsible for developing the ideal operating posture given product mix, staffing knowledge, and equipment capabilities
• Owner of essential KPIs such as Uptime, A-Grade, Speed, Paper Loss, COGM, and Capacity.
• Liaison between mill TFL operations and sales; can communicate and solve problems effectively to move the TFL business forward
• Plans, leads, and participates in monthly and yearly outages
• Owner of outgoing TFL product quality; Able to develop, communicate, train, and enforce quality standards
• Owner of direct report time approval

Benefits

• An attractive compensation package with either bonus or profit/gain sharing eligibility for every role
• Health plans with options that meet your needs, including a wellness program, gym reimbursement, and additional benefits such as pet insurance, legal insurance, employer-paid and voluntary life insurance, and more
• Paid maternity