Senior Production Manager

About the role

Join the world's largest HVAC company, named by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025! In this position, you will direct and coordinate activities concerned with production of company product(s) personally or through subordinate supervisors. Come be a part of an exciting journey at Daikin Applied, where innovation and excellence drive our every endeavor.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Responsibilities

• Confers with management personnel to establish production standards, develop budget and cost controls, and to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products ordered.
• Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
• Coordinates production activities with Sales, Production Control, Purchasing, Manufacturing Services, maintenance, and subordinate supervisors to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines, and equipment.
• Creates, reviews, and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, and operating or production problems.
• Creates, reviews, and analyzes headcount reports to ensure appropriate staff levels and requests additional staff or realigns/transfers staff as needed.
• Resolves operational manufacturing issues to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays. Revises production schedules and priorities when there are equipment failure or operating problems.
• Develops/revises and implements, in conjunction with engineering, new standard operational and work practices and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems, enhance efficiency and lean practices, improve product quality, and improve workplace safety.
• Observes workers to ensure compliance with standards. Creates a continuous improvement culture utilizing Lean Manufacturing, 5S principles, Kaizen activity, and employee participation.
• Collaborates with the Environmental Health and Safety Manager regarding training for workers on issues related to health and safety; may facilitate training either personally or through subordinate supervisors. Serves in a leadership role on all plant safety committees.
• Collaborates with the Human Resources Director and Human Resources team on issues related to recruitment and selection, employee relations, training and development, compensation, conflict resolution, motivation, corrective action, policy, contract and employment law interpretation, and all employee-related strategic decisions.
• Participates in grievance meetings and labor management group meetings to resolve or effect settlement of grievances. May participate in Union contract negotiations.

Requirements

• 4-year Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent).
• Certificate such as CSP, CHMM, Certified Sustainability Professional, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of related experience, including 4+ years of people leadership experience.

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options plus dental and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2%.
• Company-provided life insurance plus optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees plus 11 company-paid holidays (vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual).
• Paid sick time in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service.

Pay

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $100,800.00 to $171,700.00 plus a 15% bonus in Arizona. The range displayed represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade which this position falls. Individual base pay will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.