Production Manager

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (position summary), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (preferred qualifications? Actually required qualifications and preferred qualifications; we can combine into Requirements or Qualifications). Also maybe Skills (knowledge, skills and abilities). Benefits, Pay, Schedule only if present; none present. So we will not include those sections. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS maybe considered not essential but still part of posting; but we can include as part of responsibilities? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Non-essential functions are still substantive? Might be considered part of responsibilities but we can include them under Responsibilities as they are functions. However they say "NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Ensure the requirements of ISO 9001 and Polycorp's QMS are conformed with. All other duties as assigned." That's still substantive. We'll include under Responsibilities. We need to use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which sections have content. We have About the role (position summary). Responsibilities (essential functions + non-essential). Requirements (required qualifications). Preferred qualifications could be part of Requirements or Qualifications. We could have a Qualifications section for preferred qualifications. Or combine. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine required and preferred into one Requirements section. But we also have Knowledge, Skills and Abilities which could be Skills section. So sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills. We must not create empty sections. So we will output:

About the role

...position summary...

Responsibilities

• ...essential functions items...
... plus non-essential functions as items.

Requirements

• ...required qualifications...
• ...preferred qualifications...

Skills

• ...knowledge, skills and abilities items...

We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details as given, but we can format as list items. Must not lose any detail. Let's extract details. Position summary paragraph: "The Production Manager will provide overall direction to manufacturing teams producing products that meet or exceed customer requirements while adhering to corporate policies and cultural tenants. This individual will establish and achieve aggressive targets for cost management, safety, schedules, employee relations, customer satisfaction, quality systems deployment, and other directives on a multi-shift basis, in a complex operational environment." Essential functions list: many sentences. We need to break into list items each representing a function. Let's parse: - Leads and manages operation members who are charged with ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives are met on daily basis to implement effective operator control systems and to comply with International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9001 standards. - Primary focus is fulfillment of customer orders on-time, complete, and error-free shipments. - Provides leadership and initiates corrective action to resolve non-conformance issues to achieve established objectives. - Achieves schedule completion consistent with customer demands and expectations. - Participates, with peers, key support elements of operations (staffing, equipment, tooling, technical services, and others) to improve overall business results. - Understands customer satisfaction requirements and plant or product deficiencies; initiates activities to improve plant staff and support departments. - Provides leadership to ensure effective training on methods, equipment, processes, quality standards, safety, material resource planning, communication, and teamwork. - Provides member work environment that meets all safety needs. - Champions and works with various teams to achieve member security consistent with Polycorp policies, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and CAL OSHA standards, and ISO 9001. - Implements improvements to planning, methods, products, processes, and work habits to increase efficiency and productivity, resulting in cost savings consistent with business plans. - Serves as visible role model for members. - Demonstrates, on daily basis, excellence in leadership, and consistency in actions to support Polycorp principles. - Promotes and leads Total Process Management (TPM) process to improve overall effectiveness of operation. - Provides team and member goals, direction, training, support, feedback, and recognition to improve both team and member performance. - Assists with training effort to change and improve culture in manufacturing to support engaged members and team-based problem solving. - Spends significant time on shop floor; flexes schedule and effectively interacts with members across 7-day 24 hours operation; presents pertinent information to members. - Climbs above floor level and around or over equipment, walks on screen guards, and works in other awkward areas of manufacturing environment. - Champions, supports, and facilitates change initiatives through training, hiring, and directing members to ensure Corporate values and best practices are applied. - Embraces diversity in complex, make-to-order environment. Non-essential functions: - Ensure the requirements of ISO 9001 and Polycorp's QMS are conformed with. - All other duties as assigned. Preferred qualifications: - Experience in the rubber industry a plus. - Computer literacy; Microsoft Office, Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), ERP software Programs (Example Syspro). Required qualifications: - Bachelors degree, or equivalent job-specific work experience. Preferred areas of study include engineering, operations, business, or social science disciplines. - 8+ years management experience in complex and demanding manufacturing environment. - Working knowledge of quality, manufacturing planning, inventory control, and engineering documentation systems. - Working knowledge of ISO9001 certified quality control systems, lean manufacturing principles, Just in Time (JIT), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Total Process Management (TPM), team-based environments and continuous improvement. - Proven leader in successfully managing teams of people, projects, resources, and complexity, achieving superior results. - Must be bilingual (Enlgish/Spanish) (note typo Enlgish but we keep as is). Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills. - Demonstrated dedication in keeping current with improvements in manufacturing and distribution technologies. - Proficient in use of MS Office. - Has passion for excellence; always looking for improvement. Job competences list maybe could be considered skills but we already have skills; but we could include them under Skills as well. However the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The job competences are also substantive; we could include them under Skills as well. But we already have a Skills section for knowledge, skills and abilities. We could add the job competences as additional list items under Skills. That would preserve all info. Thus Skills section will include both knowledge, skills and abilities and job competences. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no markdown fences. Let's craft. Be careful to escape any HTML special characters like &, <, >. The text includes parentheses, etc. No need to escape unless we have < or >. There's none. We'll produce:

About the role

The Production Manager will provide overall direction to manufacturing teams producing products that meet or exceed customer requirements while adhering to corporate policies and cultural tenants. This individual will establish and achieve aggressive targets for cost management, safety, schedules, employee relations, customer satisfaction, quality systems deployment, and other directives on a multi-shift basis, in a complex operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages operation members who are charged with ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives are met on daily basis to implement effective operator control systems and to comply with International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9001 standards.
• Primary focus is fulfillment of customer orders on-time, complete, and error-free shipments.
• Provides leadership and initiates corrective action to resolve non-conformance issues to achieve established objectives.
• Achieves schedule completion consistent with customer demands and expectations.
• Participates, with peers, key support elements of operations (staffing, equipment, tooling, technical services, and others) to improve overall business results.
• Understands customer satisfaction requirements and plant or product deficiencies; initiates activities to improve plant staff and support departments.
• Provides leadership to ensure effective training on methods, equipment, processes, quality standards, safety, material resource planning, communication, and teamwork.
• Provides member work environment that meets all safety needs.
• Champions and works with various teams to achieve member security consistent with Polycorp policies, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and CAL OSHA standards, and ISO 9001.
• Implements improvements to planning, methods, products, processes, and work habits to increase efficiency and productivity, resulting in cost savings consistent with business plans.
• Serves as visible role model for members.
• Demonstrates, on daily basis, excellence in leadership, and consistency in actions to support Polycorp principles.
• Promotes and leads Total Process Management (TPM) process to improve overall effectiveness of operation.
• Provides team and member goals, direction, training, support, feedback, and recognition to improve both team and member performance.
• Assists with training effort to change and improve culture in manufacturing to support engaged members and team-based problem solving.
• Spends significant time on shop floor; flexes schedule and effectively interacts with members across 7-day 24 hours operation; presents pertinent information to members.
• Climbs above floor level and around or over equipment, walks on screen guards, and works in other awkward areas of manufacturing environment.
• Champions, supports, and facilitates change initiatives through training, hiring, and directing members to ensure Corporate values and best practices are applied.
• Embraces diversity in complex, make-to-order environment.
• Ensure the requirements of ISO 9001 and Polycorp's QMS are conformed with.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree, or equivalent job-specific work experience. Preferred areas of study include engineering, operations, business, or social science disciplines.
• 8+ years management experience in complex and demanding manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of quality, manufacturing planning, inventory control, and engineering documentation systems.
• Working knowledge of ISO9001 certified quality control systems, lean manufacturing principles, Just in Time (JIT), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Total Process Management (TPM), team-based environments and continuous improvement.
• Proven leader in successfully managing teams of people, projects, resources, and complexity, achieving superior results.
• Must be bilingual (Enlgish/Spanish)
• Experience in the rubber industry a plus.
• Computer literacy; Microsoft Office, Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), ERP software Programs (Example Syspro).

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated dedication in keeping current with improvements in manufacturing and distribution technologies.
• Proficient in use of MS Office.
• Has passion for excellence; always looking for improvement.
• Production Approach - Focuses on measurable and near-term results and outputs; emphasizes efficiency, cost control, and refinement of processes and procedures that produce incremental gains
• Willingness to Deal with Multiple Tasks - Works through multiple priorities concurrently; uses data management tools to organize information versus rely on memory.
• Takes Personal Responsibility in Individual Contributor Role - Demonstrates attitude and commitment to take personal responsibility for results, even