Production Manager

Responsibilities

• Directs and delegates activities to ensure safety, quality, delivery, and cost meet specified targets.
• Affirms the compliance of behavior-based safety initiatives and continuously improves safety performance.
• Executes quality control plans for compliance to standards and drives variation reduction within the process.
• Affirms on-time delivery performance and develops actions to improve and sustain high level of performance.
• Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective management of labor, overtime, and expenditures.
• Determines staffing requirements weekly and re-deploys resources during the week as needed to address any shifting staffing needs or changes in priorities and scheduling.
• Reviews and analyzes production reports to determine root causes of variance from budget, and develops and executes corrective actions, using structured root cause analysis, MDI and Policy Deployment methodologies.
• Utilizes Lean principles to form teams and involve people to improve productivity, decrease lead times, reduce waste, and attain customer quality requirements.
• Reviews and analyzes production reports to determine root causes of variance from budget and develops and executes corrective actions.
• Suggests and initiates cost reduction programs centered around capital improvements where ROI and payback criteria are favorable.
• Promotes, prepares, and participates in kaizen activities. Sustains results.
• Facilitates the execution of daily Gemba walks by ensuring the proper utilization of hour-by-hour, SQDC boards and War Room tools.
• Coordinates appropriate “required to operate” and “required on roles” staffing levels.
• Directs the efforts of plant supervision to ensure the consistent application of human resource policies, procedures, and plant rules. Assures adherence to safety accountability guidelines.
• Coaches and mentors team members to assure their ongoing development.
• Stays abreast of new trends and developments in methods, techniques, equipment, tools, materials, and supplies, which might be incorporated into the production process to increase efficiency or better use of resources.
• Researches and recommends capital equipment purchases.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A hands-on leader that is a role model with high integrity, positive influence, and strong business acumen that embraces change, possesses a continuous improvement mindset, and has a passion for exceeding customer and company expectations.
• Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business or equivalent 10 years of staff level leadership experience.
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in Operations and/or Lean Management.
• Printing industry experience is preferred.
• Significant experience in implementation of Lean principals as they apply to manufacturing operations.
• Ability to apply structured problem-solving methodologies to determine root cause of problems and provide effective countermeasures.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced excel skills.