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Production Manager 1st Shift

Morgan Truck Body
Janesville, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2025
Production Manager

Shift: 1st Shift

Location: Janesville WI

How You Will Make an Impact?

Hands-on Production Manager will lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the facility to ensure objectives are met.

The Nuts and Bolts

  • Production Planning
  • Ensure Product Quality
  • Problem Resolution
  • Cost Control
  • Act as liaison between operations and other key areas of the organization such as; sales, engineering and customer service.
  • Have the initiative and competence to anticipate and respond to issues along with the ability to design and implement changes as needed.
  • Continue Lean and 5S initiatives.
  • Time Management
  • Mentor line leaders and group leaders.
  • Ensure safety regulations are being followed and training is provided.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Required Credentials

  • Bachelor’s preferred and minimum of 5 years of relevant manufacturing management experience
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, conditional formatting, graph’s)
  • Experience in putting structural environment in place and turnaround.
  • Experience in Schematics, Blue Print reading, AutoCAD introduction
  • Initiative and competence to anticipate and respond to issues along with the ability to identify and implement changes as needed
  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles a plus
  • Excellent communication skills, personal accountability and a strong sense of urgency
  • Training and supervisory experience (progression – how quickly promoted)
  • Strong ability to communicate to multiple levels and functions
  • Work independently
  • Strong mentorship
  • Has led multi-functional projects
  • Has led teams in structured and stressful environment and ever-changing environment
  • Strong ownership of outcomes (high responsibility)
  • Proactive versus reactive approach
  • Lead by example

You Must Be Able to

  • This job operates in a manufacturing plant environment. Must be able to work in a non-climate controlled environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms

How We Make An Impact

Celebrating our 70th year as the largest truck body builder in North America, Morgan Truck Body LLC is proud to produce, deliver, and service quality products. With a foundation built on innovative design and quality construction, Morgan has experienced tremendous growth. In addition to dry freight truck bodies, Morgan specializes in satisfying unique and custom truck body needs, including electric vehicles, mobile service units, and refrigerated products, serving farmers, ranchers, contractors, landscapers, equipment and material haulers, and more!

Our shared values are the foundation upon which Morgan does business:

  • Appreciating the people who make our success possible.
  • Acting with integrity in all we do.
  • Delivering results for our customers.
  • Bringing an unbridled passion for our products.

Some of Our Total Rewards

We offer big company perks with small company culture:

  • Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid holidays and increasing vacation time with years of service
  • Generous Footwear, Eyewear, and Safety Equipment Discount Program
  • Paid Job and Leadership Development training

Morgan Truck Body LLC is a business unit of the J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. family and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Whether you are just beginning your career or taking the “next step,” please visit our careers page -https://www.morgancorp.com/careers.

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