What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at The Cavco Family of Companies?
ABOUT THE ROLE
Production employees build the industry leading homes and components for each of our unique Cavco brands. Production employees follow specified engineering and safety processes that maximize the efficient manufacturing and construction of high-quality products for our customers.
The Production Manager is the most senior leader responsible only for plant production. He / she retains complete accountability for execution and continuous improvement of production across a plant and the various production departments in order to meet specific client quality and production goals. He / she is accountable for production process mapping, documenting, reengineering, quality assurance, staffing, metrics, controls, risk identification, service level expectations and overseeing the training of all production supervisors, team leads, and team members. He / she also retains complete accountability for the development and coaching of the production supervisors and team leads across the production areas including conflict resolution.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee the working environment of production employees to ensure work is conducted in a safe manner following all safety policies while performing job duties.
- Maintains open communication with plant operations manager regarding safety concerns and general manager regarding achievement of production quality and production productivity goals.
- Together with the Production Supervisors, strategically manages workforce including hiring, firing, advancement, promotion, and other changes of status of team members.
- Oversees production supervisors to ensure that work orders and instructions are consistently followed in order to ensure the accurate and efficient assembling of building components across all production areas.
- Proactively organizes the production supervisors to meet weekly production goals and forecasts and plans production goals, staffing, and other needs for the upcoming several weeks and months.
- Proactively communicates and coordinates with supervisors regarding attendance and staffing needs across the production areas.
- Ensures that appropriate maintenance and stewardship of tools and machinery.
- Performs various other job duties as assigned and needed.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
