Production Manager

Summary/Purpose:  Directly responsible to the Plant Manager and has complete responsibility to make decisions and take action so that established standards and practices in the Production Department are maintained. Directs, manages and schedules the work of manufacturing personnel to maximize efficiency and meet shipping date commitments to customers.

Essential Job Duties: 

• Day-to-day management and supervision of all Production areas including Extrusion, Thermoforming, and Printing. Develop, review, update and implement Production Control procedures.
• Maintain day-to-day communications with Plant Manager concerning daily operations.
• Coordinate all R&D and trial materials and process flows.
• Work with Materials Management to review and update controls for inventory functions with periodic cycle counts of inventories; determine correctness of physical and perpetual inventory; develop formulas for control of min-max inventories; maintain weekly perpetual inventory of material movement (as appropriate).
• Provide resources for and implement cycle count program and periodic physical inventory
• Establish whether production dates can be met, or what can be done to meet them. Forecast future requirements for production and assist in scheduling processes as necessary.
• Monitor scrap removal and reduction programs. Report material losses on a monthly basis.
• Manage employee performance and prepare performance evaluations. Review employee performance periodically and in an objective fact based manner.
•      Responsible for the training and development of personnel.
• Withhold product that does not meet requirements.
• Maintain files for late Production Identification.
• Develop formulas for issuing of Production Reports.
• Schedule staffing and follow up on timely completion work output.
• Interact and communicate with the Sales & Customer Service Departments on current running jobs.
•    Ensures that data collection/reporting activities within the Plant are completed accurately and on a timely basis.
• Generate reports based on production performance that align with site, BU and corporate KPI’s
• Works closely with R&D Engineers and QA in the development and implementation of Statistical Process Control.
• Facilitates team improvement projects such as, but not limited to:
  1. Safety awareness and system improvement
  2. Increases in efficiency:
     1. Changeover time reduction
     2. Increased run speeds
• Capital improvements
• Quality improvement- implementation of Statistical Process Control.
• Waste Reduction
• Work with QC Manager and Materials Manager on new products, samples and issue resolution.
• Actively participates and encourages direct reports to participate in root cause investigations and process improvement teams.
• Fills in for Plant Manager as needed.
• Capable of working various shifts as well as weekends as necessary.
• Interfaces with Maintenance Manager and Supervisor to ensure the integrity of equipment and reliability are maintained
• Has responsibility for the quality of all products and processes
• Adheres to all Quality System and GMP requirements and ensures all reports also comply with these same systems
• Promotes worker safety by:
  1. Constantly accessing job requirements and addresses possible job hazards by either eliminating the hazard or through implementing a requirement for PPE.
  2. Audits employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines.
  3. Lead daily and weekly shift safety meetings, drive floor level safety compliance and implement safety initiatives.
  4. Participates actively on the plant-wide safety teams.
• Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.

1. Stressing safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.
2. Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.
3. Participating actively on the plant-wide safety team.
4. Ensuring the housekeeping in the immediate and surrounding work area is maintained or improved to the highest level possible.

• Ensures Quality products and processes are maintained by:
  1. Understanding and supporting both quality policies and the Quality System.
  2. Performing work at a level that ensures quality of this positions work meets or exceeds internal and external customer specifications.
  3. Identifying and correcting if possible any identified quality issues both in the department and plant as a whole.
  4. Participating in system or quality based training provided by the company or recommended by the company
• Actively participates in the continuous improvement process (CIP) and Manufacturing Operating System (MOS) by:
  1. Identifying and addressing any opportunities to reduce cost, improve product/process and/or improve overall operations
  2. Participating and facilitating problem solving teams to eliminate problems, streamline operations or other areas as defined by management
  3. Participating in MOS training and exercises designed to expand the potential for continuous improvement and standardize operations.
  4. Facilitate and promote the use of the TWI training method across the facility.