Production Manager

About the role

Riverside, located in Eau Claire, WI is a precision machining company, and our company mission is to provide custom precision manufacturing and innovative services to medical, aviation, space, defense, and emerging high-tech industries. We're looking for an experienced Production Manager to lead our manufacturing operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective production while delivering exceptional quality and meeting customer commitments.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing operations to ensure production schedules, quality expectations, safety standards, and customer are achieved.
• Lead the planning and prioritization of department activities and resources to maximize throughput, efficiency, labor utilization, and equipment performance.
• Manage departmental labor, overtime, scrap, rework, and operating expenses within established budgets.
• Monitor operational production metrics including productivity, efficiency, scrap, downtime, utilization, on-time delivery, and product quality.
• Drive corrective actions and continuous improvements to performance not meeting expectations.
• Identify and drive strategic and system level operational improvements to meet business growth objectives.
• Promote a proactive health and safety culture by identifying hazards, conducting safety observations, investigating incidents, and implementing corrective actions.
• Foster a positive work environment built on teamwork, accountability, communication, respect, and continuous improvement and learning.
• Maintain team's adherence and compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), approved manufacturing processes, policies and procedures, and quality management system requirements.
• Lead collaboratively with all production support departments to facilitate optimized production schedule, product flow, and timely material and resource availability.
• Recruit, train, develop, and retain a high-performing workforce capable of meeting business growth objectives.
• Conduct performance evaluations, establish development plans, provide regular coaching and mentoring, and address performance issues.

Qualifications

Riverside is seeking a results-driven manufacturing leader who thrives on building high-performing teams and driving operational excellence.

Skills

The ideal candidate will champion continuous improvement, foster a culture of accountability and employee engagement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and achieve strategic business objectives.