Our client is dedicated to ensuring that our customers' product and manufacturing needs are met with industry standard label and packaging solutions. For over 60 years our company has provided our service to product manufacturing businesses nationally and we continue to offer a variety of custom label solutions from custom designed artwork to leasing on-location equipment. We know and understand the importance of a stand-out product label and how packaging alone drives up sales. As label experts we utilize our comprehensive understanding to highlight your products with a variety of quality labels delivered in a quick time frame.
We are seeking an experienced, reliable, and motivated professional to join our team as the Production Operations Manager. The Production Operations Manager should have proven success leading production departments, handle high pressure, work in a fast-paced environment, and be motivated to make improvements while maintaining project schedules to drive projects to completion.
Duties and responsibilities

• Oversees operational systems, processes, and infrastructure while looking for opportunities of improvement or revision.
• Anticipates and tracks operational and tactical risks and provides strategic solutions.
• Work closely and partner with Human Resources focusing on culture, onboarding, retention, turnover, compensation, and training.
• Works with sales teams to help set and meet daily and quarterly goals.
• Plays a significant role in long-term planning, project status reporting, and implementing change control processes.
• Oversees and reports weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual metrics.
• Identifies trends and assess opportunities to improve processes and execution.
• Developing and implementing operational procedures and policies.
• Analyzing training needs/requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizing skills to coordinate project activities.
• Run a safe, injury/accident-free workplace
• Communicate all operating policies and/or issues at department meetings
• Recruit, select, train, assign, schedule, coach, counsel, and discipline employees
• Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions

Skills and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in program management, business or public administration, technical management, engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of recent production management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience may be considered equivalent if experience demonstrated increased depth and breadth of responsibility.
• Strong team-building skills to develop subordinate managers is a must.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven record in training employees.
• Ability to coach and motivate employees.