Job Description

Position Summary:

The Production Manager is responsible for overseeing daily manufacturing operations to ensure production targets, quality standards, and safety protocols are consistently met. This role provides hands-on leadership to production staff, coordinates workflow, monitors performance, and works closely with other departments to maintain efficiency and resolve issues. The Production Supervisor plays a critical role in driving continuous improvement, fostering a culture of accountability, and supporting the overall success of company's operational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervises staff to produce manufactured products and organizes and monitors workflow.
• Accomplishes manufacturing results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; and initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Recruits, selects, onboards, trains, and mentors’ employees.
• Maintains workflow by monitoring and upgrading processes, setting processing variables, observing control points and equipment, monitoring personnel and resources, studying methods, implementing cost reductions, developing reporting procedures and systems, facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points, and initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, accomplishing work results, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, and reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing production standards.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data, and answering questions and responding to requests.
• Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements, and implementing change.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, and maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data, investigating issues, identifying solutions, and recommending action.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills and Qualification Requirements:

• Time and process management
• Process improvement
• Efficiency
• Quality control
• Safety-focus
• Team management and coaching
• Decision making
• Production planning
• Controls and instrumentation
• Strategic planning
• Attention to detail
• Manufacturing
• Communication

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma
• 2-3 years relevant work experience in a manufacturing environment
• Prior supervisory experience
• OSHA Safety certification, Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), and Certified Manufacturing Specialist (CMS) a plus

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