Production Manager

Job Title: Production Manager

Reports to: Plant Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Travel: Domestic travel required at times (up to 10%)

Summary

The Production Manager is responsible for the overall management and direction of the day-to-day business operations, ensuring production objectives are met at the lowest cost consistent with product quality requirements, while maintaining high safety standards and ensuring all legal and regulatory compliance. Manages business plans/budgets and staffing requirements to support growth to annual sales volumes through delegating authority to key direct reports and utilizing inputs from cross-functional peers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

• Responsible for managing the site safety and environmental compliance programs and for ensuring that all employees adhere to these policies, including basic housekeeping and 5S.
• Direct functional responsibility for safety, quality, production scheduling, production, maintenance, tooling, and engineering
• Determines facility policies consistent with corporate policies and directs/supervises the application of these policies for the site, while working in concert with onsite cross-functional peers.
• Works closely with cross-functional peers in Sales, Customer Care, Quality and Human Resources to support local and Company-wide business initiatives.
• Responsible for the site’s Quality Program
• Ensure compliance with the production schedule to meet or exceed customer service requirements; plans staff operations establishing priorities and sequences for setups, samples, and production orders.
• Ensure compliance with the production schedule to meet or exceed customer service requirements. Reviews production schedule to ascertain data such as quantities, specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan the staff operations of the facility.
• Prepares staff schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meet specifications.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operation, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimized costs and prevent operational delays.
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure production is at or above established standards.
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Coordinate preparation of requests for capital equipment consistent with Company policy.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Company organization policies/procedures and applicable laws/regulations. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Coordinates development of long and short-range plans with Plant Manager, including annual budgets and strategic plans.
• Strong production floor presence, conducting daily GEMBA walks throughout facility, participating in Tiered Accountability Meetings, Implementation of Leader Standard Work and Regular Town Hall Communications.
• Ensure all personnel matters, including salary actions and disciplinary actions, are dealt with in a timely and appropriate manner and in accordance with Company policy.
• May have direct contact with customers on complaints and service matters as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline; formal training in at least one continuous improvement discipline (i.e. Lean or Six Sigma). 5 years leadership experience in industrial manufacturing operations with proven track record for high performance results.
• Progressive Engineering experience is preferred.
• Experience with plastic blow molding operations is required (EBM/ISBM/IBM/RHB)
• Experience with Aoki ISBM or 1Blow RHB platforms is a plus.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office - MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; proficiency in use of NetSuite, Quality Systems & MRP systems and knowledge of MRP workflow.

Competency:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Integrity: Employee behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner. Employees understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality and foster an environment where integrity, honesty and accountability flourish.
• Teamwork: Employee is capable of being approached and easy to work with. Contributes to the success of the team, communicates clearly individually and in group settings while treating others with respect.
• Accountability: Employee takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with little to minimal supervision. Consistently meets all deadlines and follows through on completing tasks while holding self and other accountable for actions and/or appointed responsibilities and manages one's own performance to proactively ensure team accountability.
• Problem Resolution: Demonstrates the ability to effectively problem solve and set priorities while delivering results in a timely manner and effectively obtains results through planning and delegation. Employees analyze problems skillfully and uses data to reach solutions while demonstrating the ability to appropriately take calculated risks or escalates decisions to consult with others when appropriate.
• Communication: Creates an environment of open communication amongst team members while providing regular, consistent, and meaningful information. Actively listens carefully to others and ensures messages are understood. Demonstrates the ability to communicate information clearly, concisely, and thoroughly in a timely manner.
• Job Knowledge: Employee demonstrates relevant job knowledge and essential skills, such as work practices, policies, procedures, quality assurance, and technical abilities. Employee demonstrates self-improvement efforts to enhance skills and knowledge with changes impacting the job while adhering to workplace rules as well as to traditional or socially expected methods of doing business following processes and procedures.
• Continuous Improvement: Consistently finds ways to improve methods, processes and/or procedures to improve quality of work and to maximize efficiency. Quickly identifies process inefficiencies and takes independent action to make improvements. Willing supports new ideas while energizing others within the workforce to embrace changes that enhance efficiency.
• Initiative: Ability to assess and initiate things independently with limited supervision required. Has the ability to manage resources to achieve results, while possessing the ability to manage multiple activities to accomplish goals. Actively seeks and does more than required or requested in the job and plans ahead for upcoming problems or opportunities and takes appropriate action when required.
• Planning & Organizing: manages resources to ensure work is completed timely and accurately. Proactively anticipates potential problems and develops contingency plans to overcome obstacles. Anticipates deviations and plans and actively reorganizes work as necessary.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

This document in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from, any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper.