Production Manager

Position Summary

The Production Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing all manufacturing operations to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective production that meets company quality, delivery, and performance objectives. This role drives the facility’s safety culture, coordinates production planning and execution, and provides leadership to production supervisors and teams. The Production Manager partners closely with Planning, Maintenance, and Engineering to optimize throughput, minimize downtime, control costs, and support continuous improvement initiatives while fostering a positive, engaged, and accountable workforce.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

• Drive our Safety Culture throughout the facility to ensure the safety of employees, visitors, and contractors
• Interface with production planner to establish priorities and sequences for manufacturing products
• Cook up production activities through planning with managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Cook with Maintenance and Engineering to resolve manufacturing problems to ensure minimum costs and delays
• Provide leadership to accomplish the company goals and objectives
• Build and engage employees that support our goals and objectives
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and ensures positive work environment
• Lead, encourage and support continuous improvement projects
• Implement cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, people management, wages and salaries
• Control and minimize labor overtime and supply disruptions
• Aid in maintaining existing plant facilities and equipment; replace, or adjust plant facilities and equipment when necessary
• Work with maintenance to maximize uptime and maintain preventative maintenance programs
• Incorporate shop floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel

Knowledge/Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related engineering field along with 5+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of proven manufacturing leadership experience required
• Knowledge of wire and cable products and processes preferred
• Ability to apply technical knowledge or experience to define problems, generate alternatives, and execute solutions
• Demonstrated ability to perform customary management and supervisory responsibilities, including goal setting, planning, direction, training and evaluation
• Proven ability to lead a team
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills along with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively communicate our goals and objectives to a team and convey the part they play in achieving those goals