Production Manager

Summary: This position is critical both in ensuring Customers and Craftspersons are delighted working with us and in installing improvements so our vision of being the company Customer, Suppliers, and Craftspersons want to work with can be realized. The ability, desire, and drive are required to ensure the alignment of the production Craftsperson’s efforts and the Customer’s needs.

Role: Lead, plan, organize and control team in satisfying Customers. Two main elements to this effort are first maintaining what is in place and second improving. This requires an ability to drive the desired actions, processes and therefore results. Overall, it will be imperative to institute operational best practices and reduce process variance and costs by driving continuous improvement through Lean activities.

Purpose: The purpose of this position is to provide leadership in pulling together the production teams in accomplishing the task required to satisfy Customers in a safe operation, providing quality parts that meet Customer needs, on-time, in a high morale, positive environment at a price Customers is willing to pay.

Major Duties/ Responsibilities: In support of the role and purpose stated above, the major duties/responsibilities are to maintain the methods that work and improve upon those methods-specific tasks include:

• Leading a team of Craftspersons by-

o Developing trust by demonstrating

• Commitment
• Be actively available and involved with achieving the daily targets without being the one with their hands in the machine completing the work
• Competency as a manager including-
• Working on the right things and finishing them
• Clearly knowing where they, but especially the team, are going
• Addressing issues, specifically ones within the team
• Consistency
• Being an example
• Treating everyone the same way

• Safety-
• Create and maintain a safe workplace for all employees

• Improve OEE-
• Routinely have operator and preventative maintenance done so issues are addressed before they become problems

• Enforce and otherwise encourage everyone in doing things the right way including the paperwork.

• Training and development of Craftspersons
• Create and implement documented development plans for each Craftspersons
• Developing and promoting Master Craftspersons
• Ensure prioritization of training and development

• Help develop and document the standard, best way of doing recurring and one-off production and task

• Ensure shipping is effectively and efficiently accomplished

• Ensure effective communications with internal support operations especially Maintenance and Production Control before issues become problems

• Collaborate with scheduling/engineering to plan and support new product launches

• Do what needs to be done to satisfy the Customer especially in shipping well documented, high-quality product

• Recognize, prioritize, and resolve problems especially in anticipating and preventing or mitigating issues

• Eliminate waste including keeping the area clean and organized

• Other task/responsibilities as directed by the General Manager

Reporting Relationship: Reports directly to the General Manager. Direct reports are production personel.

Personal Accountability: Ensure each day, the following is accomplished:

• Leading- bringing vision into reality

• Doing the detail work, especially control including paperwork, to be confident the big thing – safely satisfying Customers - is achieved.

• Personify safety

• Make the best use of time, yours but especially your peoples

• Perform all duties in an independent manner with little supervision

• Have a “do what needs to be done” attitude, specifically when it comes to delighting the Customer

• Maintain cooperative working relationships with other employees and others- specifically Customers and Suppliers

• Do not be encumbered when at work

Qualifications: To attempt to succeed in this position, key success factors include-

• Management- Leading, planning, organizing and controlling

• Having held management position of at least 10 people, preferably in a manufacturing environment

• Good at working with people

• Very good at making sure everything is right in detail-especially safety, quality, and paperwork/ performance tracking

• Deep, applicable knowledge in production including-
• People
• Variation
• Knowing how to learn
• Systems
• Wood/ Woodworking
• Equipment
• Preventive actions/ maintenance
• Troubleshooting/ problems solving

• Knowledge of a wide variety of the products produced preferred

• Education valued

Benefits: Pay and benefits as an A level employee.

Job Type: Full-time

Expected hours: No less than 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) 4% Match
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 4x10
• Overtime

Ability to Relocate:

• Hicksville, OH 43526: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person