Production Manager

Key Responsibilities

Lead daily operations for the Air cooled Heat Exchangers (ACHES) shop: staffing, floor coverage, production scheduling and on-time delivery.

Achieve direct operating expense targets for the department and manage a profitable operation by minimizing manufacturing variances.

Maintain safe work practices and compliance with EHS and regulatory standards; lead safety huddles and near miss reviews and incident investigations.

Maintain standard work, work instructions, and visual management systems; ensure operators are properly trained.

Track and report KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People) through tiered daily management (Tier 1–3).

Partner with Planning/Supply Chain to ensure material availability and communicate capacity constraints.

Lead root cause investigations for defects, delays, and downtime; drive corrective and preventive actions.

Develop and train supervisors and coordinators through increased responsibilities and career focused courses and stretch assignments.

Implement Lean tools such as 5S, Standard Work, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Kanban, SMED, and Poka Yoke.

Lead waste elimination efforts across motion, waiting, overproduction, inventory, defects, transport, and over processing.

Facilitate Kaizen events and rapid improvement workshops with documentation of charter, baseline, and results.

Drive OEE improvement by partnering with Maintenance on preventive and predictive maintenance needs.

Build continuous improvement capability across the team through training and coaching.

Partner with Quality to improve process capability (Cp/Cpk), reduce defect rates, and strengthen first pass yield.

Ensure adherence to customer specifications through layered process audits and mistake proofing.

Connect employee engagement and shop performance metrics to customer outcomes.

People & Capability Development

Recruit, onboard, and develop ACHES shop team members; maintain skill matrices and cross training plans.

Provide performance coaching and corrective action when necessary; maintain a high accountability culture.

Systems, Compliance & Reporting

Maintain accurate ERP/MES production records, including labor, WIP, scrap, and rework.

Prepare weekly and monthly production and performance reports with action plans.

Ensure OSHA and company EHS compliance; participate in audits and customer visits.