Production Manager

Position Summary

This position is responsible for planning, organizing and controlling production to ensure that the products are produced efficiently, on time, within budget and to established safety and environmental standards.

Primary Functions

• Plan, implement and control the productions schedule, making adjustments as needed.
• Determine the human, material and support equipment resource requirements to meet production targets.
• Establish and implement standard operating procedures for the production operations, ensuring adherence to standard procedures.
• Ensure the implementation and adherence to required environmental, health and safety procedures.
• Implement, enforce and monitor quality control standards of products. Track and analyze quality programs to detect, correct problems so as to meet quality objectives.
• Establish and deploy processes to determine and implement improvements to the production process.
• Prepare and maintain production reports.
• Monitor and review the performance of direct reports and organize necessary interventions for improvement.
• Set and manage production budgets. Implement appropriate cost control programs to realize budget and cost objectives.
• Ensure efficient collaboration and co-ordination between relevant departments including planning, logistics, quality, process engineering, product engineering, procurement, sales and upper management.

Additional Duties

• Provides additional duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Education requirement: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, engineering or industrial technology.
• A minimum of 5 years of prior experience in production and manufacturing environment. Credit may be given for relevant work experience.
• Appropriate working knowledge of:
• Budget development and control
• Quality systems and standards
• Environmental, health and safety standards and compliance
• Process improvement techniques
• Human resource principles and practices.
• Business related computer systems
• Key competencies include;
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Planning and organizing
• Decision making
• Communication
• Persuasiveness, influencing and leading
• Delegation
• Team work
• Conflict management
• Stress tolerance
• Ability to bend, twist, climb, stoop or stand.
• Ability to spend time sitting at a desk or workstation.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and follow detailed written and verbal instructions.
• Travel may be required on occasion but not generally expected.
• An essential requirement for this position, based on business necessity, is that the employee must be physically in attendance at his/her workstation at the designated company office location during normal business hours designated for the position. There may be occasion when additional time, beyond normal working hours, be spent within the facility to assure duties and responsibilities are fulfilled.

Working Conditions

Temperature: This position is an inside position working 50% of the time in a climate-controlled environment and 50% of the time within the production facility.

Terms and Accommodations

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required for the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person