Production Manager

About the role

The Production Manager will be based at the Cullen manufacturing location and will be responsible for managing Production supervisors and direct labor staff, reviewing work performance, evaluating, and testing procedures, and reviewing and understanding project specifications and drawings. Coordinates with engineering, purchasing, operations project engineers, quality, and project managers to ensure project requirements are met. Responsible for overall department performance related to cost, quality, schedule, and safety in a project-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Directs operations across TAS manufacturing facilities to ensure completion of projects within budget and in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Covers assembly activities planning and execution.
• Plans, develops, and implements product production lines.
• Hires, trains, develops, and appraises staff effectively.
• Fosters a spirit of teamwork within the department.
• Addresses employee performance issues in a timely manner and in accordance with company policies, consulting with Human resources as appropriate.
• Develops, monitors, and reports on operating costs within functional areas.
• Alerts management of cost and labor overruns.
• Makes recommendations and implements solutions to problems related to the same.
• Manages load planning based on backlog and forecasted workload.
• Forecasts needed workspace and headcount.
• Schedules, assigns, and monitors work orders.
• Coordinates with engineering, purchasing, operations project engineers, quality control and project managers to ensure project requirements are met.
• Ensures redline and as-built drawing processes are strictly adhered to.
• Establishes work unit objectives and standards.
• Maintains measurements for quality, schedule, and cost performance.
• Ensures timeliness, safety, and quality of material movement.
• Develops and implements standard work procedures to continually improve overall department productivity.
• Trains and informs employees of new work methods and procedures.
• Responsible for safe work practices, maintaining a safe work environment and ensuring work crews follow safe practices and HSE programs, including Lock-out Tag-out.
• In conjunction with the EHS Manager, trains employees on changes in safety regulations, work policies, and standards.
• Identifies, recommends, and prioritizes the acquisition of tools and other capital equipment to improve overall efficiency of the department.
• Ensures department budgets are met, prioritizing shop expenditures to stay within budget and assisting in preparation of capital and department expense budgets.
• Develops skills and abilities of team members.
• Validates and updates department training curriculum by reviewing existing material and revising as necessary and ensures all department employees complete required training.
• Completes tasks as directed by the Operations Manager with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Heavy Mechanical and Fabrication background experience with pumps, motors, process piping, valves, control valves, skid-based units, process skids, instrumentation.
• Must read and interpret P&ID, ISO, and engineering assembly drawings.
• Must be able to perform shop math.
• 7-10 years technical experience in a manufacturing/industrial setting.
• 8+ years supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD, MS Word, MS Excel.
• Able to communicate issues and solutions with project engineers.

Qualifications

• Management training.
• Safety Training.

Skills

• Supervisory principles, practices, and techniques.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to effectively coordinate and supervise multiple projects.
• Able to make decisions involving considerable initiative and ingenuity.
• Commitment to the concept of continual improvement and effective quality management systems.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.

Company Overview

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company. TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities. TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery. With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com.

Important Notice

TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. "smoking" and "tobacco or nicotine products" includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes.