Production Manager

Job SummaryWe are looking for a Production Manager who will be responsible for cost-effective manufacturing of company products consistent with required quality standards, safe work practices, effective housekeeping, and maintaining compliance with personnel policies. The Production Manager manages the production line, applying continuous improvement principles and methods and promoting participation-related management techniques.Essential Duties

• Manage daily production operations through the Production Superintendent, production supervisors, and/or production teams to maximize production efficiency including volume or product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, downtime, and slowdown while producing high-quality products in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood and consistently met.
• Provide formal objectives and measurements for plant personnel and is involved in machine troubleshooting, efficiency studies and capital improvements.
• Ensure that production crews are well-trained, involved, and committed to meeting production, quality, and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery complies with all outside regulatory agency requirements and that employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements.
• Meet daily production schedule and requirements. Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure an appropriate inventory mix is available while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands.
• Develop, implement and track compliance to production department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide production supervision to achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost.
• Provide leadership and direction to the production department. Work closely with human resources and supervisors to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in the hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

• 4 plus years of experience in manufacturing management with project management experience
• Demonstrated experience in process and quality improvements, implementing strategy for production operations, hiring/training/coaching employees and performance management
• Additional experience in a high volume manufacturing operation, preferably continuous web process
• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Engineering, Chemical or Mechanical

How We Protect What Matters Most:1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. 2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. 3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. 4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. 5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. 6. We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).