Production Manager

Manages production for multiple shifts spanning multiple technologies and processes, with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Direct production, working with supervisors to schedule product priorities, equipment, workstations and staff to efficiently meet production goals
• Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers
• Recommend, develop and lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development
• Monitor KPIs anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets
• Facilitate regular improvement planning sessions to identify key strategic opportunities to achieve manufacturing strategic goals and develop related action plans with measurable outcomes
• Support and reinforce the effective application of the Daily Management System to validate that actions lead to desired performance improvements
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
• Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values

COMPETENCIES

• Meet and aim to exceed the company’s management expectations which include, but are not limited to:
  • Manage self – exhibit personal accountability and use good judgment, etc.
  • Develop the team – create a motivational environment and provide constructive feedback, etc.
  • Advance the business – continuously improve and provide a strategic focus, etc.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Requires one of the following:
  • Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of manufacturing operations management or leadership assignments demonstrating a progression of increased scope and responsibility and five (5) years of supervisory experience a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to be accessible and approachable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams
• Ability to utilize business sense and creativity to develop new ideas, approaches and solutions
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create basic reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
• Experience managing multi-shift or continuous operations, preferred
• Paper converting, chemical/plastics processing and packaging industrial experience, preferred
• Lean manufacturing experience, preferred