Production Manager

Responsibilities

• Promote safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends.
• Ensures that safety meetings are conducted, investigates and countermeasures all safety problems and reports results.
• Develop plans for improvements and maintain compliance with all environmental regulations.
• Safeguards fair and consistent practices, recommends promotions, salary increases, demotions, and transfers.
• Selects and develops personnel and identifies training needs.
• Counsels and motivates the team and maintains a clean, safe, working environment.
• Reviews, analyzes, and monitors daily and monthly production results and trends according to man, machine, material methods measured against plant goals.
• Develops resolutions through troubleshooting which is corrective prevention.
• Directs and leads all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and employee relations.
• Countermeasures adverse trends, obtains and deploys resources as necessary.
• Maintains lowest costs for production.
• Trains and educates team in standard practices, process capability, and downgrade defect analysis.
• Promotes a high level of good housekeeping.
• Audits Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) compliance, establishes plans, and controls points for achieving production requirements, communicates objectives to team.
• Interacts and coordinates activities with support department, maintenance, technical support, and customer service department.
• Directs resources to improve and correct deficiencies and initiate countermeasures.
• Submits monthly reports that document results vs. monthly budget expectations.
• Audits safe conditions and safe behaviors every shift while on the floor - uphold safety rules and policies and proactively addresses safety hazards and unsafe behaviors.
• Actively models setting high Safety standards (LOTO, proper PPE, no ear buds or phones on production floor, long sleeve shirts, dust masks, etc.).
• Coaches and drives 6S principles and improvements across the department and plant.
• Drives Safety, Quality, Yield and Productivity Continuous Improvement and leads projects.
• Coaches, mentors & develops team to successfully operate their assigned production lines.
• Works to ensure any needed training is completed on time and strong cross training to standard/work procedures is actively ongoing.
• Be accessible to employees to create an open door and team-oriented culture.
• Participate in meetings as needed and be responsive to e-mail & phone communications.
• Be active in your own personal leadership development and attend scheduled leadership & management trainings.
• Passionately drives continuous improvement culture.
• Administers established policies for performance management, staffing, training, employee relations, and compensation management.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to be a change agent.
• Good communicator across various levels of the organization.
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Critical thinking and attention to detail.
• Strong analytic ability to gather and interpret data where results/answers can be found after analysis of several facts.
• Ability to use computer and various systems required to perform role.
• Root cause analysis certification/training completed within 12 months.