What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at Innovive?
Job Summary: Innovive is a consistently growing B2B manufacturing company serving the biomedical research industry. We value hard work and credit the team for our success. We are looking for an experienced Production Manager / Senior Manager. This role will provide leadership for production activities based in North Sioux City and in San Diego (consumables lines). This position reports to the SVP of Operations and is an onsite position located in North Sioux City, South Dakota.
Position Responsibilities:
The Production Manager / Senior Manager will be responsible for a broad range of activities and projects including:
- Responsible for production including daily production planning, delivery to plan, production cost, first time yield, safety, quality targets, and production staffing.
- Manage team performance through scorecard, visual management, daily/weekly/monthly reporting, performance management and PDCA to close performance gaps.
- Manage team stability, hire, develop and retain talents.
- Ensure the capital equipment maintenance objectives are met: Uptime, Preventive Maintenance, Response Time, MTTR.
- Optimize team utilization and share resources to support other activities/tasks when needed (support other departments, repair, inventory management, training, etc.).
- Ensure team readiness for new technologies (digitalization and industrial automation) as well as new products introduction to minimize impact to production results.
- Participate in the industrial automation committee and be an advocate for automation.
- Support and enforce all Company Policies.
- Work collaboratively with all internal stakeholders to reach business goals.
- Ensure documentation, SOPs are updated and available in all job scope areas.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Excellent leadership
- Highly motivated, confident and energetic with a positive attitude and driven to lead
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage team dynamics within zone of responsibility
- Dealing with conflict and empowerment to escalate
- Decision making and crisis management within zone of responsibility
- Nonconforming procedure - Knowledge of QMS
- Developing & reporting metrics within zone of responsibility
- High degree of organization
- Self-starter with exceptional work ethic and motivated to succeed
- A high degree of honesty and integrity
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Production Management, Engineering, Information System, Change management or a related field.
- 5-10 years of experience in Production/Operations management in a multi-site organization.
- Experience in highly automated production environment like automotive industry
Location: North Sioux City, South Dakota
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience and highly competitive within industry.
Employment Type: Full-Time/ Exempt
Travel: Up to 10%
Benefits Offered: We offer excellent benefit packages and employee programs including paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, FSA or HSA, 401k with Company match, EAP, employee discounts, and a casual work environment with excellent career development opportunities.
About Innovive
At Innovive, we understand that our success and continued growth wouldn't be possible without a dedicated, passionate, hardworking, and talented team. If you relish the challenge, thrive on finding solutions, and like being a part of a fast-growing company that helps make other people’s lives better, we would love to hear from you!